Dax Shepard and Ike Barinholtz may have been a little too forthcoming about how they feel about nudity around their children.
In the Monday, March 24, episode of his “Armchair Expert” podcast, Shepard, 50, and Barinholtz, 48, traded stories about being nude with their families. Shepard is a dad to two daughters — Lincoln, 11, and Delta — and Barinholtz has three — Foster,11, Payton, 8, and a third child around 6 whose name has not been shared publicly.
The topic came up after Shepard said he tried to show wife Kristen Bell’s movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall to Delta, 12, but had to turn it off due to gratuitous nude scenes. “We’re not hung up on nudity in my family,” he explained. However, as the movie progressed, he soon realized, “No, I don’t think this is the right film for us.”
“I wish we weren’t hung up on nudity,” said Barinholtz, “But my 11-year-old, who’s going on 15, she’ll come into my bathroom when I’m coming out of my shower and will look at me and go, ‘Oh.’” He continued, “And I’m like, ‘What are we doing?’ Why are you doing this? I don’t go into your bathroom and evaluate your body.”
The conversation then took an even more off-the-rails turn. “I get it,” Shepard said. “You know, our older daughter asks why do you and Daddy’s birds — it’s universal in my house, it can be male or female — why do you and Daddy’s birds look so old?”
The duo mostly agreed that parents should generally stop being naked around their children when they become teenagers, but Shepard added, “My policy is that’ll decide that, because in Europe they don’t give a f—.”
“They’re nude, they go to dinner nude,” Barinholtz cut in before Shepard added, “I’m aiming for that.”
Barinholtz, still on the topic, then shared that when he showers with his youngest daughter (the example he gave was in a hotel), he will wear underwear because of the height difference between the two.
The American Academy of Pediatrics does not offer official guidance on when families should consider no longer being fully nude in front of their children. Clinical psychologist John E. Mayer told Yahoo Life in a 2018 interview that there is an “abundance of clinical cases” that have studied the topic, and the conclusion is that nudity should stop when at least one person is no longer comfortable with it.
“Has this been a family habit since the children were born?” he asked. Mayer also advised families to “set boundaries, through teaching, that these habits may not be acceptable outside of ‘our’ home, such as overnights at friends’ [homes], campouts and school events.”
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