Viewers of This Morning React to Off-Grid Parenting and Child Peeing on Live TV

Viewers of This Morning were left stunned when the one-year-old daughter of the show’s guests pees on the studio floor — and her parents didn’t even bat an eyelid.

Adele, 32, and Matt Allen, 33, from Brighton, appeared in today’s episode of the show along with their daughter, Ostara and five-year-old son, Ulysses.

Their parenting style, they call ‘Off-Grid Parenting’ – which presumably doesn’t include the use of nappies – came under fire from viewers after Matt failed to intervene when he noticed his daughter peeing on the floor.

As the interview proceeds, the couple’s son then jumps around on the sofa, while Ruth Langsford looked unimpressed, and this did not escape the viewers’ keen eyes.

@BeBethany_69 tweeted: ‘Those kids just on this morning remind me of when I learn about “feral children” in A Level English.’

Toni Utley “professed herself to be in a state of shock, saying: ‘So gobsmacked had to watch it again. Bet these kids are annoying as hell in the supermarket’, while Lucy Evans added: ‘The dad saw and did nothing’.

The couple appeared on the show to explain their parenting style with Adele explaining her unusual approach to modern medicine, shunning conventional treatments when her children had scarlet fever and chicken pox. “We treated it naturally. We believe in the body to self heal. If you support the body’s healing through supplements and herbs then it will heal. I don’t believe that bringing a fever down artificially helps the body. I believe a fever is there for a purpose to clean the body out,” she said.

Adele also revealed that she still breastfeeds her five-year-old son.

“It really depends on the day. He does it more at home when he’s feeling tired or needs comfort. Not so much when we’re out but sometimes if he’s feeling a bit emotional he asks to. And that’s fine with me…It’s something that’s just as natural as a hug is, it’s a connection,” she said..

Ruth also pointed out that the children were clambering all over the sofa, which she said that she and Eamonn had no problem with, but she wanted to know if Ulysses is ever told off by his parents. “He is a highly sensitive child so he does struggle with getting overwhelmed easily so it’s important for him not to have strong, authoritarian discipline,” Adele said, a gesture which earned the support of some viewers.

Lottie_Palmer tweeted: ‘So refreshing to see these parents doing what feels natural rather than conforming.’

And TheHollyRiversShow declared she was baffled that people were horrified to see children ‘jumping around, being breastfed and weeing’.

‘All natural parts of being kids,’ she added.

Adele, a writer, decided that they do off-grid parenting because it “felt completely natural” to them.

“Off-grid is moving towards self sustainability and being a bit more free range and less institutionalised,” she said.

Adele said that her children have never seen a doctor or received vaccinations. “I don’t really see that there’s any need other than using breastfeeding to supplement them. I don’t see any need to inject any foreign substance directly into the blood stream. That’s not how children will come into the contact with a germ naturally anyway, be it in the mouth or another way,” she said.

The family are currently saving to migrate to Costa Rica, to live an eco-lifestyle. “Our ultimate ambition is to move towards self-sustainability. We’re looking at Central America; somewhere we can get a big plot of land and grow food. Have the space for freedom and access to wildlife in it’s natural state,” she said.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk and News.com.au