Less than a month after Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard's controversial Instagram anniversary post , the Hollywood couple were back in fans' bad graces. During a November 2025 episode of Shepard's "Armchair Expert" podcast with guest Reese Witherspoon, Shepard shared a shocking parenting technique he and Bell are using with their daughters, Lincoln and Delta — the latter whose name Bell is actually upset over .
Apparently, the kids are allowed to talk back to adults and be disrespectful, something Shepard noted was "un-southern." It was behavior that surprised a friend of his, who brought up the subject to the "Idiocracy" star. "She's like, 'Yeah, your kids will let it rip.' Like, they seem to have no kind of respect, is what she's saying," Shepard told Witherspoon, also saying that h

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