Mila Kunis & Ashton Kutcher Are Teaching Their Kids An Important Life Lesson With Unique Christmas Tradition

Oct 28, 2022 by apost team

For many adults, Christmas time means holiday traditions, caroling and a whole bunch of yuletide festivities. But for kids, Christmas is one thing and one thing only — gifts from Santa Claus! 

While that may be true for most households, celebrity parents Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have a very unusual and specific Christmas tradition — something that others might be surprised about considering their A-list celebrity status. Interestingly, the couple’s tradition stems from their own experiences as children growing up.

Both actors first became known for their work on the sitcom “That '70s Show.” The show aired from 1998 to 2006 and ran for eight seasons with 200 episodes. It centered around the lives of a teenage friend group in the 1970s and addressed social issues during that time. The show performed well and was a commercial success, which helped launch the careers of both Kutcher and Kunis.

Kutcher is also known for his roles in films such as “Dude, Where's My Car?” (2000), “The Butterfly Effect” (2004), and for portraying Steve Jobs in the 2013 biographical film “Jobs.” Kunis is remembered for starring in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” in 2008 and for providing the voice of Meg Griffin on the animated comedy series “Family Guy” since 1999.

In 2012, Kutcher and Kunis began dating and were engaged in February 2014. The couple then married in July 2015 in Oak Glen, California. When they first began dating, Kutcher was still finalizing his divorce from actress Demi Moore. Moore and Kutcher’s divorce was official in 2013. Kunis and Kutcher went on to have two children together, a daughter named Wyatt and a son named Dimitri. 

The couple’s way of parenting seems to stand out among other celebrity parents in Hollywood, as it is widely influenced by their emotional and rather challenging pasts. 

Before Kunis would go on to join hit television shows and movies, she played a challenging real-life role herself as a young Jewish girl from Ukraine who was feeling out of place in Los Angeles, California. 

"We were really poor," Kunis revealed in a Howard Stern interview in 2016. 

Eventually, Kunis found her own way and managed to land projects that further solidified her career and cemented her place in Hollywood. From "That '70s Show" to "Family Guy," and to movie screens all over the world, her work ethic has kept her in the entertainment business for almost 30 years. The actress confessed:

"The thing about this industry is it's not like chess. You can't really think five steps ahead. If you could, you would be the master, and that's impossible. There is no plan. You take it one day at a time. You just try to make smart decisions."

Similarly, her husband, Kutcher, also came from a rather difficult upbringing. The “Two and a Half Men” actor was born in Iowa with a fraternal twin brother who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. He then attended the University of Iowa and studied Biochemical engineering before getting his start in the entertainment industry.

"It's so important because we both 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,” Kunis said on "The Kyle and Jackie O Show" podcast.

In an episode of Dax Shepard’s "Armchair Expert" podcast, Kutcher even revealed that they are not planning on leaving their children their earnings or setting up a trust fund for them in the future.

“We'll end up giving our money away to charity,” he disclosed. 

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Through the years, Kunis and Kutcher’s unique parenting style has branched out to new family traditions that their two kids had to learn eventually. 

Speaking to Brooke Anderson on Entertainment Tonight in October 2017, Kunis, who was then promoting her film “Bad Moms,” candidly opened up about how her family would celebrate the upcoming Christmas season. 

“I come from communist Russia, where you're not allowed to be happy, so my holiday traditions are ‘be quiet.' Coming to America is when you realize Christmas has a magical quality to it,” she recalled. 

She went on to explain that coming to the United States, their traditions have changed over time. But this change meant she and Kutcher had to create new traditions for their growing family. 

“So far, our tradition is no presents for the kids. We're instituting it this year because when the kids are (younger than) one, it doesn't really matter. Last year when we celebrated Christmas, Wyatt was two and it was too much. We didn't give her anything — it was the grandparents. The kid no longer appreciates the one gift. They don't even know what they're expecting; they're just expecting stuff.”

“We've told our parents, ‘We're begging you — if you have to give her something, pick one gift. Otherwise, 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,” she continued. 

Elsewhere in the interview, Kunis also stressed the importance of bringing their kids to the library — an effort they believe will help in raising open-minded children. 

“Yeah, we're not gonna raise a******s. There's enough a******s in this world!. We don't need to contribute. But, you know, there's some nice people,” she pointed out. 

What do you think of Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s Christmas tradition for their kids? Would you ever do the same thing with your kids? Let us know, and pass this article along to any other parents or parents-to-be!