You can argue about parenting styles – particularly well on the Internet and particularly well with the example of celebrities. The actors Dax Shepard (47) and Kristen Bell (42), who say they give their children gummy bears with the sleep hormone melatonin, are also experiencing this.
While Bell and Shepard use a drug to get their children to stop sleeping in their parents’ bedroom, Alicia Silverstone (45) does the exact opposite: In the “Ellen Fisher Podcast” she recently said that her eleven-year-old son Bear was still always sleep with her in bed. This type of close relationship was also a source of excitement for many.
However, too fearless an upbringing is not welcomed on the Internet either. When singer Pink (42) and her husband Carey Hart (47) published pictures in 2020 showing their three-year-old son doing his rounds on a children’s motorcycle, many followers found it “irresponsible”. Photos of the son and then nine-year-old daughter Willow during target practice caused displeasure among the followers, who could not understand the father’s pride in these activities of his children.
Mila Kunis, 38, and Ashton Kutcher, 44, caused an uproar when they admitted on the Dax Shepard podcast a year ago that they wouldn’t bathe their kids until “you see the dirt.” Years ago, Kunis also raised eyebrows when she revealed that her then 3-year-old daughter was allowed to drink wine once a week. Kunis comes from a Jewish family and traditionally celebrates Friday Sabbath with wine. However, this could also be replaced by grape juice …
A particularly fruitful topic of debate is weaning: When Nina Bott (44) announced on Instagram in 2020 that she was stopping breastfeeding after 1.5 years, it raised some eyebrows. These went even higher with Tamara Ecclestone’s (38) breastfeeding story: the presenter admitted in 2019 that she had breastfed her daughter until she was four years old. She didn’t expect the hysteria that this information triggered among her followers, she told the “Daily Mail” at the time.
As a mother on the Internet, it doesn’t seem to be easy in general: Two months ago, Coco Austin (43), wife of Ice-T (64), still drove her daughter around in a stroller at the age of six a shit storm. Many did not like the fact that Sarah Engels (29) Alessio was still wearing diapers at the age of two. Sara Kulka (32), on the other hand, received criticism for the fact that her child no longer wore diapers at a very early age. And Cathy Hummels (34) caused a misunderstanding because she kissed her then one-year-old son Ludwig on the mouth.
In the case of the US musician John Roderick and his actually questionable method of upbringing, the shitstorm ended with a deleted Twitter account. In 2021, he proudly reported in 22 tweets about his daughter’s odyssey, who was hungry and wanted to open a can of beans. Instead of explaining how to use a can opener to the nine-year-old, he insisted she figure it out herself – which took six hours and a few tears.