Actress Kristen Bell has made no secret of the fact that her daughters, Lincoln and Delta, don’t get along particularly well. “They fight almost 100 percent of the time, which was a big surprise to me,” Bell told Today’s Parent in an exclusive interview last year. And although she explained that she does her best to let the school-aged girls handle the fights on their own, she’s now revealed one of the tactics she uses when she decides to step in to resolve their conflict: A family triangle.
“When my girls have a problem, and we need to talk it out, I’ve been applying what I call the ‘family triangle,'” said Bell on her new podcast, Shattered Glass, which she co-hosts with her friend Monica Padman (who also co-hosts the popular podcast Armchair Expert with Bell’s hubby, Dax Shepard). “The three of us sit with our toes together?it’s our version of a circle?so they have to look at each other. I find so much more comes out of those conversations, where I’m trying to get these tiny people to talk about big emotions, because they’re having to face one another. It’s a powerful thing, the circle.”
Despite describing her tactic as a triangle, Bell references a circle because her podcast guest, feminist journalist and social political activist Gloria Steinam, had mentioned the power of circles when discussing some of the challenges she experienced in joining the political movement. “...