If you've ever wondered what kind of parents Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are, they have an answer for you: goofy.
Keep reading to see what else they had to say!
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Ashton Kutcher And Mila Kunis Get Candid On Parenting: 'We're Very Goofy Parents'
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have always taken an unconventional approach to parenting.
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The Hollywood couple has two kids: son, Dimitri Portwood, 3, and daughter Wyatt Isabelle, 5.
For example, these mega-rich celebs want their kids to think that they're poor.
The Bad Moms actress explained the reasoning behind this on the The Kyle and Jackie O Show.
“It’s so important because [Ashton and I] came from pretty solid poverty backgrounds and grew up very poor and are very much self-made and are very aware of what a dollar is worth."
“Nothing’s been handed to us.”
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“It’s a matter of teaching them from a very early age that, you know, ‘Mommy and Daddy may have a dollar, but you’re poor,’ ” Kunis said.
"‘You are very poor, you have nothing. Mommy and Daddy have a bank account.’ “
Additionally, on a 2018 episode of Dax Shepard's "Armchair Expert" podcast, Ashton revealed he won't be leaving any money to his children.
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He ain't raising no trust fund babies.
"My kids are living a really privileged life, and they don't even know it," Ashton said.
"And they’ll never know it, because this is the only one that they’ll know.”
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"I’m not setting up a trust for them. We’ll end up giving our money away to charity and to various things.”
Ashton doesn't do handouts. The only way his kids can get some money is if they have a business plan first.
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"If my kids want to start a business, and they have a good business plan, I'll invest in it," Ashton said. "But they're not getting trusts."
The parents don't even give their kids Christmas presents!
The reason behind why is actually really sweet.
"We just stopped because there’s so much happening in the world where people don’t have anything," Mila shared.
"And we said, ‘Why don’t we just make this about other people?’ And they were amazing about it.”
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The most difficult part of this wasn't the kids' reactions — it was trying to get the grandparents on board!
"We've told our parents, ‘We're begging you — if you have to give her something, pick one gift.'"
"We'd like to take a charitable donation, to the Children's Hospital or a pet [or] whatever you want. That's our new tradition.”
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This is one brilliant hack that parents might want to copy.
Given all this, you might be surprised to learn that the couple sees themselves as "goofy parents."
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“I sometimes try to read our daughter’s books in the characters’ voices, and [Wyatt is] like, ‘Dad, can you just use your real voice?’ ” Kutcher said in a sneak peek of the couple's interview on Brit + Co founder and CEO Brit Morin‘s new podcast Teach Me Something New.
“I’ll do Peppa Pig with an English accent. And then Daddy Pig, the whole thing. And she’s like, ‘Dad, just do your regular voice.’"
Kunis added that they are “silly at home" and that they are “very goofy parents when it comes to our children, but that don’t have skill.”
“I think that’s just being idiots,” the "Bad Moms" actress joked.
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“I think we’re very comfortable with ourselves acting a fool at home, but maybe that comes from the idea of being comfortable in your own body, and in your own skin, and in your mind and not having a fear of making a fool of yourself,” Kunis added.
The couple then explained how their kids don't always want to hear fictional stories about pigs.
These days, the kids want to hear stories about their parents.
This is something that Mila said that Kutcher is “really good at."
“[Wyatt] now knows everything about us. I mean, literally, she’s like, ‘Tell me a story from your life?’ and you’re like, ‘All right, let me think about a story,’" Mila said.
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“But then after a while, you run out of stories. So [Ashton] has to go and start creating stories from real life. Because you literally run out of stories.”
It looks like careers in comedy have really paid off for these parents!
Want to check out the full episode with these goofy parents?
Teach Me Something New premieres today on the iHeartRadio app.
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