On Monday’s episode of his Armchair Educated podcast, Shepard mirrored on a contemporary dialog he had collectively together with his 10-year-old about Sabrina Carpenter and the favored observe, “Juno,” from her 2024 album, Fast n’ Sweet.

Whereas the observe has flip into modern for its tongue-in-cheek reference to the 2007 movie by the an identical determine by which Elliot Internet web page will get pregnant in highschool by their movie boyfriend, carried out by Michael Cera, it’s the intercourse positions Carpenter does whereas performing the music every all through the U.S. and abroad all through her worldwide Fast ‘n’ Sweet tour which have garnered every reward and backlash.

The actor revealed that he and his daughter take heed to the album whereas he’s driving her to highschool. So when the dialog was broached regarding the pre-teen’s favorite music on the 12-track doc, Shephard talked about the pair “labored by way of” the true which means behind the tune.

“She goes, ‘Nonetheless are you conscious what Juno is?’ and I’m going, ‘No…’ and she or he’s like, ‘Properly, it’s a movie,’ and I’m going, ‘The movie Juno? Positive, I do know.’ And he or she goes, ‘Yeah, it’s a story a few woman who will get pregnant,’” Shepard, who shares Delta and daughter Lincoln, 13, with Kristen Bell, recalled. “I’m going, ‘That could be a little bit of nasty.’ And he or she goes, ‘What’s nasty about wanting to have a baby with any particular person?’”

Shephard outlined that whereas there’s nothing flawed with wanting to have a baby with any person, it was the reality that the titular character inside the movie, Juno MacGuff, obtained pregnant as a teen.

“And he or she goes, ‘Oh, she’s in highschool?’ She knew part of the Juno story, [but] she merely didn’t know she was in highschool,” Shepard talked about. “And one of the simplest ways she phrased it was like, ‘Wait, what’s nasty about wanting to have a baby with any person you want?’ And I was like, ‘Oh no, there’s nothing nasty about that, I’m merely saying, ‘I wanna get pregnant in highschool’ is sort of a nasty, pleasing lyric. It’s a constructive ‘nasty,’ I’m saying.”

It’s not the first time Shepard and Bell have shared shared how they work by way of mature topics with their daughters.

In a 2023 concern of Precise Straightforward, Bell talked about that of their household, there aren’t any “taboo” topics, and that options intercourse.

“I hate the phrase ‘taboo.’ I really feel it should be stricken from the dictionary. There should be no topic that’s off the desk for people to discuss,” Bell talked about on the time. “I do know it’s shocking, nonetheless I converse to my kids about medicine, and the reality that their daddy is an addict and he’s in restoration. And we talk about intercourse.”

As for what the pair are instructing their kids, Bell talked about to “make amends.”

“Making amends and apologizing is an important think about our family, because of folks go away carnage wherever they go. I truly respect when any person does one factor flawed or hurtful they often apologize,” she outlined. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, correct on.’ That’s important. If there’s one issue I want to coach my kids, it’s one of the simplest ways to make amends—and that it’s for themselves, to permit them to love who’s inside the mirror a little bit of bit further.”