Mila Kunis is spilling the tea.
While she and husband Ashton Kutcher agree on most things, like their controversial showering habits , they don’t always see eye-to-eye.
Case in point: Mila’s aggressive advice for dealing with her daughter’s schoolyard bully.
Come learn why she called it one of her biggest “parenting fails.”
If there’s one celeb we can always count on for candid mom advice, it’s Mila Kunis.
She always shoots it straight, like when she was on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast and admitted to some strange showering habits.
“I don’t wash my body with soap every day,” Mila shared, adding that she does wash her armpits and private areas daily.
“I didn’t have hot water growing up as a child so I didn’t shower very much anyway,” Kunis said.
She and her family immigrated to the United States from Ukraine when she was only seven years old.
Mila’s lack of showering applies to her kids, Wyatt, 7, and Dimitri, 4, whom she has with her husband, Ashton Kutcher.
“When I had children, I also didn’t wash them every day. I wasn’t the parent that bathed my newborns—ever,” Mila said.
Instead, Ashton said that they have a unique system: “If you can see the dirt on them, clean them,” he said. “Otherwise, there’s no point.”
Although the couple agree on showering habits, it doesn’t mean they agree on everything.
Recently, Mila shared that she and Ashton disagreed over the advice she gave their daughter on how to handle a childhood bully.
She revealed this “parenting fail” in a new edition of Ellen DeGeneres’s web series, “Mom Confessions”.
“Well, here’s a story that’s about to get me in trouble,” she began.
Color me interested!
“There was a little kid in my kid’s preschool that wasn’t very kind and pushed my daughter.”
She explained that her daughter came to her about this.
“My daughter came back and was like, ‘Such and such little kiddo pushed me,'” Mila recalled.
“And I instinctually said, ‘Did you push her back?’ And my daughter’s like, ‘No!'” To her daughter’s shock, Mila told her then-six-year-old daughter to “push her back next time.”
So you can see where she thought this would be super controversial, especially since she chose to say it online.
“‘You push her back, and you say, ‘No, thank you,’ and you walk away,'” the Bad Moms star instructed her child.
However, her words were not met with rousing support.
Although Mila had good intentions (she didn’t want her daughter to get pushed around) Ashton didn’t agree with the advice to fight back.
“I turned around, and I see Ashton’s face, and he was like, ‘No!'” she even gave an impression of his shocked disapproval.
Mila didn’t care; she carried on advising her child. She said, “You stand up for yourself, and you say ‘No thank you.'”
“Don’t push her off of a ladder, off of a swing, or off of a slide, but on the ground, even Steven, you push her back,” she continued.
Upon reflection, the mom of two came to see how her advice to handle conflict was a “parenting fail.”
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People reacted to this confession on Twitter, with some parents agreeing with her.
“As the parent of a child who was bullied relentlessly through school I agree with her,” this Twitter user wrote.
“If someone pushes you then push them back then remove yourself from the situation.”
“I told my kids never to start anything but defending themselves is fair game!”
“In the past, I would have leaned toward Ashton’s point of view, but in hindsight, I kinda wanna agree with Mila,” another wrote.
It’s definitely a tricky subject, and I’m certainly interested to see what parents have to say about it!
