It's not easy being a parent in this digital age. The proliferation of readily available digital media makes it increasingly simple for minors to have access to mature content in whatever form it takes. A plethora of media is unsuitable for children, whether because of crude language, provocative conversation, or an abundance of crude, nasty sex.
It can be quite challenging for the person responsible for this child's safety to shield them from all the material that is continuously thrust in their direction. We can only imagine how much more difficult it is when the worried parent is a central character in the exact show they are trying to shield their children from.
1. Bob Odenkirk
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Bob Odenkirk doesn't mind if his kids watch Mr. Show. Odenkirk said he didn't start watching Breaking Bad until he was cast. With young children at home, he didn't want to expose them to violence and drugs. This attitude persisted when Odenkirk became Saul Goodman; he didn't watch the show until season 4. His kids certainly still can't watch Odenkirk's spinoff Better Call Saul.
2. Kristen Bell & Dax Shepard
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard restrict their children from viewing any television. The children were born in 2013 and 2014. Bell says they're the right age to be enamored with her character as Frozen's Princess Anna. Unfortunately for Lincoln and Delta, Bell says they have a while to wait before they can watch that or any video, and they likely don't grasp what she does yet.
3. Helen Hunt
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Helen Hunt said in 2008 that her daughter had never seen a movie or TV show. She told stories of her kid, Makena Lei, being confused by Elmo and Nemo. Hunt doesn't say why her daughter doesn't watch TV, but she says she's bewildered when people do her hair and cosmetics. Her daughter seemed impervious to all
Entertainment, which is unlikely without parental manipulation.
4. Julia Roberts
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Julia Roberts' big break came as a prostitute, so it's hardly unexpected she's starred in kid-unfriendly movies. She's starred in family comedies but banned her kids from watching them. Hazel, Phinnaeus, and Daniel were deemed "too young" to watch Mirror Mirror. Roberts and her husband, Danny Moder, a film director, plan to show their kids their work eventually. As "happy and joyful" as they feel, that time hasn't come and won't soon. The family prefers reading and spending time together to watching TV or movies.
5. Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs didn't make
Movies or TV shows, but his iPhone and iPad transformed how people viewed them. Jobs didn't let his children utilize his creations despite evolving technology. Jobs once said, "We limit how much technology our kids use at home," noting that his kids had never used an iPod. Incredibly, the following generation of the family who invented that technology was denied it. Considering they have better things to do and most people utilize that tech for Angry Birds, maybe that's a good thing.
6. Megan Fox & Brian Austin Green
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The actress said she doesn't allow her sons to watch TV because she doesn't want them to develop a taste for "geeky" things like Star Wars and popular culture. With her ex-husband Brian Austin Green, Megan has two children, Noah, three, and Bodhi, one. "It's hard to make them super-geeks if I don't let them watch television or movies or get on an iPhone or an iPad," Megan remarked.
That's why I'm bringing up my kids to be creative eco-hippies. The New Girl star stated that she and her husband refuse to utilize electronic devices like iPads and television as a means of easy babysitting for fear of harming their children's developing brains.