Kristen Bell, Dax Shephard On Parenting Toddlers: No Good Cop, Bad Cop Between Parents

Hollywood couple Kristen Bell and Dax Shephard have a sensible arrangement when it comes to parenting toddlers. The actress reveals there's no good cop or bad cop between them as parents, saying it is calmer in their household this way.

Bell shared this parenting tidbit during a red carpet event for her husband's new movie "CHiPs." She revealed their two girls, Lincoln, 3, and Delta, 2, receive discipline through talking.

"We have a dialogue with them where there are things that are acceptable and things that are not," the celebrity mom said, as per Entertainment Tonight. Shephard agreed that they don't "enforce laws" in their household like a stern cop but he said he's more of the disciplinarian parent.

It looks like Bell and Shephard are not fans of strict parenting or the authoritarian parenting style. They keep communication lines open with their children, which is much more like an authoritative parenting style.

This doesn't mean, however, that they always get parenting right. Recently, Shephard confessed to an embarrassing moment when Lincoln learned to say the F-word. The 3-year-old heard this from her father and started saying it. The parents decided Lincoln will eventually outgrow the word so they didn't reprimand her for it.

One time at a pool party, however, Lincoln used the F-word within earshot of other guests. Her dad was embarrassed but at the same time proud for one reason. "She knows that she's using it as an adjective, an adverb," Shephard said, per E! Online. "We were proud and she stopped saying it."

Meanwhile, Bell said her marriage to Shephard is healthy because they go through regular therapy. The actress said they are not embarrassed to admit they seek experts even as there's a negative connotation surrounding couple's therapy.

"You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe," Bell said, as per Good Housekeeping. "In my previous relationship, we went to couples' therapy at the end, and that's often too late," she added. "You can't go after nine years and start figuring out what patterns you're in."