Dax Shepardmight have the ultimate parenting hack.
In a recent PEOPLE andParentsmagazine video, Shepard, 46, and wifeKristen Bell— who share daughtersLincoln, 8, andDelta, 6 — discuss the wins and losses they’ve faced as mom and dad.
Shepard raves that one of his most recent wins was figuring out an unconventional method to help his daughter fall asleep instantly.
“I figured out that if I scratch my younger daughter’s head extremely hard — her request — she is out cold within 90 seconds,” he says.
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard with daughters Lincoln and Delta.
“Yeah, that will never happen again,” Bell, 41, chimes in.
The actors also share some of the various things they wish they knew before becoming parents, like the inevitable noise and mess in the house.
“I guess I thought they’re littler people, right? They might be less loud. And they’re not,” Bell says. “The volume is three times what a normal person should be, and the problem is it’s not just volume, it’s the consistency of noise. It’s like having NPR on all the time — so two stations of NPR on all the time — but if it were all questions. No answers, no fun stories, just all questions. And that’s a lot.”
Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell.Cindy Ord/Getty Images
Meanwhile, Shepard wishes he had been a little more prepared for the clutter that comes with raising kids.
“It’s not worth the stress,” Bell adds. You just gotta surrender, because if you spend your whole time, you’re gonna lose and you’re gonna be mentally fatigued. Then your kids see that you’re stressed ‘cause objects are in different places."
source: people.com
