Dax Shepard shared a wild promise together with his 11-year-old daughter, Delta.
“Delta was saying how she will be able to’t wait to have a child,” Shepard, 51, stated in the course of the Monday, January 5, episode of his “Armchair Knowledgeable” podcast. “I stated, ‘When do you suppose you’ll have your first youngster, once you flip 18?’ I need to be supportive of no matter.”
When his daughter responded with “no,” Shepard guessed that Delta would have her first youngster between 35 and 45 years previous.
“I stated, ‘If you wish to, we’ll freeze your eggs once you’re 18.’ I’ll pay so that you can get your eggs frozen so that you don’t have to consider that,” the actor continued. Shepard’s podcast cohost Monica Padman praised his “beautiful” gesture.
In response to Shepard, his daughter is “considering mid-20s” is the proper age to start out having children, however each he and Padman thought that Delta could be “underestimating” how a lot enjoyable she’s having at that age.
“It gained’t be time for her to be in the home each evening with a toddler,” Shepard stated.
Shepard shares Delta and daughter Lincoln, 12, with spouse Kristen Bell.
Each Shepard and Bell, 45, have been candid about their parenting types in a number of interviews over time. Shepard’s podcast has additionally provided him a platform to debate fatherhood.
Shepard beforehand mentioned his daughters’ future courting lives throughout a 2023 episode of his podcast.
The actor confessed that he’s “not going to like seeing some 25-year-old dude in boxers in my kitchen” if the ladies have grownup “sleepovers” with their important others as they grow old. Whereas he’s “very pro-sex” and needs his daughters to be “very blissful and adventurous” in terms of love, he doesn’t need any of it taking place below his personal roof.
One factor that’s OK in Shepard and Bell’s house is cursing, nonetheless.
“I totally swear in entrance of my children,” the actor stated throughout a July 2025 episode of his podcast. “They’re allowed to swear, not with impunity, however when it’s known as for, they usually land it, and it’s in the home and never out at a restaurant, it’s OK.”
He added, “My protection of it’s, I simply instructed the ladies, like, ‘Hey, these are noises that come out of your mouth, and also you assign what they imply to you.’”
Shepard defined that he thinks of this manner, there’s “no method” that he’s introducing the ladies to cursing.
Bell beforehand mentioned this similar topic throughout a 2020 look on Good Morning America. The Frozen star recalled Lincoln saying: “You by no means instructed me f*** was a nasty phrase,” when coming dwelling from faculty in the future.
“Dax has, but once more, one of the best response,” she recalled. “He stated, ‘Pay attention, you’re a child. There are quite a lot of issues you possibly can’t do till you’re an grownup. One in every of them is drive my automotive. One in every of them is drink alcohol. Vote. And say swear phrases.’ It’s so simple as that.”


