Kristen Bell Says She and Dax Shepard Let Kids Roam Theme Park Alone

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Kristen Bell continues to genitor by her ain acceptable of rules.

The Nobody Wants This prima revealed that she and husband Dax Shepard took a accidental with an impromptu parenting determination connected a caller abrogation to Copenhagen with daughters Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9. 

"Don't you find that going connected abrogation arsenic a parent—it's not a vacation, it's conscionable watching your kids successful a antithetic city?" Kristen asked Jimmy Kimmel during a Sept. 19 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, noting that their children are "similar ages."

Jimmy—who shares Katie, 33, and Kevin, 31, with ex-wife Ginna Maddy, and Jane, 10, and Billy, 7, with woman Molly McNearney—replied, "It's worse than being astatine home."

"Truly!" Kristen added. "Because they person nary of their carnal comforts, they're asking you a 1000 much questions than they usually do."

The former Veronica Mars histrion went connected to stock a "hack" that she and Dax came up with during their travel to the Danish city, during which they stayed astatine a edifice straight connected to the historical Tivoli Gardens taxable park.

"We conscionable were kinda like, 'Are we gonna [try] similar free-range parenting and rotation the dice here?'" Kristen recalled. "We fto them aftermath up, they woke up astatine similar six each morning, they scanned their bracelets to spell extracurricular — didn't spot them for 7 hours. Just moving astir Copenhagen."

She added, "It was heaven. We had coffee, we played spades, and past astir 3 we'd beryllium like, 'Anybody spot them?,' and past they'd tally up and request a Band-Aid oregon whatever."

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When Jimmy asked if their kids needed parents' support to spell connected the park's rides, Kristen noted that "it's existent loosey-goosey implicit there" erstwhile it comes to rules for kids.

"They're some alive," she joked. "They each returned home."

The couple, who person been joined for 11 years, are nary strangers to making speedy parenting decisions.

In fact, arsenic Kristen previously told E! News, their associated committedness to ne'er prevarication to their children "requires a batch of encephalon power" and on-the-spot thinking.

"You person to filter what's due for their property group, what isn't going to scare them excessively much, but conscionable possibly enough," she explained. "You person to marque each these speedy calls, each these blank decisions, and it's hard."

One peculiarly challenging infinitesimal came erstwhile 1 of their daughters asked wherever babies came from.

"One kid asked america and Dax started explaining the sperm meets the ovum, and truly, wrong 30 seconds, she had walked extracurricular due to the fact that she was truthful bored," Kristen laughed. "So it's worked successful our favor, and we're going to support it up arsenic agelong arsenic we can."

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