9 Celebrities Who Were Criticized For Their Controversial Parenting Habits And Discipline Choices
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9 Celebrities Who Were Criticized For Their Controversial Parenting Habits And Discipline Choices
Alicia Silverstone preferred to bird-feed her son when he was younger. Nelly isn’t interested in parenting his child with Ashanti until he’s able to walk and talk. Jamie Oliver made his kids eat chili peppers as a form of punishment. Madonna made her daughter Lourdes wear the same outfit every day to school until she learned to tidy up her own clothes and put them in a bag. The couple received a lot of backlash for allowing her then-6-year-old daughter Chanel to sit in a stroller when she was a baby. They still push her around in the stroller now that she’s older. They don’t bathe their children every day and use soap instead of water. They also don’t use sunscreen on their kids unless it’s going to be for hours outside. They would lock their daughter in her room until she fell asleep, but it’s not as harsh as it sounds. They turned the doorknob on the outside of her room. They wouldn’t let her play with her toys.
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“I don’t use sunscreen on my kids unless it’s going to be for hours outside because I know they don’t burn,” Jana said on a recent episode of the Whine Down podcast. “And there’s so much bad stuff in sunscreen that if we’re not going to be out there for more than a couple hours, listen, come at me. But I’m just not putting it on.”
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2.Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard would lock their then-3-year-old daughter in her room until she fell asleep, but it’s not as harsh as it sounds.
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“[Delta] decided to stop sleeping about nine months ago,” Kristen said in a 2018 interview with Parents, via Today’s Parent. “And every night, when we put her to bed, she turns the lights on, which annoys the 4-year-old [Lincoln], and she will move furniture, and she bangs on the door with different, hard toys. We switched the doorknob. We turned the lock on the outside.”
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3.Alicia Silverstone preferred to bird-feed her son when he was younger — as in, she would pre-chew his food and then pass the food from her mouth to his.
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“I just had a delicious breakfast of miso soup, collards and radish steamed and drizzled with flax oil, cast iron mochi with nori wrapped outside, and some grated daikon,” Alicia wrote in 2012 on her The Kind Life blog. “Yum! I fed Bear the mochi and a tiny bit of veggies from the soup…from my mouth to his.”
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4.Nelly isn’t interested in parenting his child with Ashanti until he’s able to walk and talk.
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“Well, listen,” Nelly said during an episode of their new reality series Nelly & Ashanti: We Belong Together. “It’s all you, I ain’t even gon’ lie. You know, I ain’t got nothing for him.” Ashanti replied, “Absolutely not, I know.”
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5.Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher don’t belive in bathing their children everyday.
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During a 2021 episode of the Armchair Expert podcast, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis got into a discussion with hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman about their and their children’s bathing habits…and how often they use soap.
6.Ice-T and Coco Austin still push their daughter in a stroller.
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The famous couple received a lot of backlash for allowing her then-6-year-old daughter Chanel to sit in a stroller.
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7.Jamie Oliver made his kids eat chili peppers as a form of punishment.
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“I give them chillies for punishment,” the popular TV chef said. “It is not very popular beating kids anymore, it’s not very fashionable, and you are not allowed to do it, and if you are a celebrity chef like me, it does not look very good in the paper. So you need a few options.”
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8.Madonna made her daughter Lourdes wear the same outfit every single day, until she was obedient.
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Whenever her daughter left clothes on the floor, Madonna had an interesting method to prevent her from doing it again. “We take all of her clothes and put them in a bag, and she has to earn all of her clothes back by being tidy,” she told USA Today in 2005. She wears the same outfit every day to school until she learns her lesson.”
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Lourdes once described her icon of a mother as a “control freak” in Interview magazine in 2021.
“The list of things I wasn’t allowed to do is never-ending. My mom is such a control freak, and she has controlled me my whole life. I needed to be completely independent from her as soon as I graduated high school.”
9.Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder isolated themselves and their newborn daughter from the world for the first 30 days of their child’s life.
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“After the baby arrives, we’re doing one month of silence,” Nikki said in 2017. “Just the three of us, no visitors, and we’re turning off our phones too, so there’s no expectation for us to communicate.”
Did you grow up in a household with interesting or controversial parenting methods that might seem uncommon to others? Share it with me below!
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