Dax Shepard has shared his trick to getting his daughter to sleep.
In an interview with People, the 46-year-old said that he recently discovered an unusual way of getting his daughter to 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 told the publication in a video.
However, the father-of-two added that he also recently suffered from telling his children they couldn’t watch TV.
“I gave a ‘no TV for the weekend’ consequence, which was later revealed to be a barbaric punishment for us,” he said.
Shepard’s wife, the actor Kristen Bell, added: “Yeah, that will never happen again.”
Bell went on to explain some of the things she wished she knew before becoming a parent.
“I guess I thought they’re littler people, right? They might be less loud. And they’re not,” she said.
“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.”
Shepard added: “I wish someone had let me know that I will never have anything nice again.
“That would’ve been a good heads-up. If you like that there are no crumbs and toys on your floor, say goodbye to it.
“The quicker you come to accept that you’re gonna live in a pigsty and that everything will be vaguely broken — the quicker you can accept that, the happier the experience is. We fought it for like six months.”
