A COUPLE who are raising their children without rules have shared an insight into their everyday life.
The described themselves as “unconventional”;, with the young children allowed to set their own schedules each day.
Adele and Matt spoke to the YouTube channel the Truly Show about their unique approach to .
The pair shared 11-year-old son Ulysses and daughters Astara, six, and Kai, three.
All three children are being raised with “no strict rules”; in any aspect of their lives, including meal times, bed times, and school.
“The children listen to their bodily cues, they sleep when they’re tired, eat when they’re hungry,”; said Matt.
He joked that this does mean that their diets include a lot of “junk food”;, such as crisps, cookies, chocolate, and pizza.
Matt clarified that their “unconventional parenting”; style was about giving their children the freedom to choose.
This began at a young age as the kids decided when they wanted to stop breast-feeding and co-sleeping with their parents.
While their oldest son co-slept until the age of 11 and stopped breast-feeding around six, his younger sister was happy to move into her own room at five and quit breast-feeding the year before that.
Meanwhile the youngest Kai still sleeps in her parents’ bed at three and continues to breast-feed, with Adele saying she didn’t see either ceasing any time soon.
This feeds into the couple’s main parenting philosophy which involves attachment parenting their children when they are young as well as practicing gentle parenting.
This close relationship is continued all the time as the children do not attend school.
Instead, Adele and Matt use an “unschooling”; technique at home, though they clarified this is not considered homeschooling.
According to them, it lets the child lead what they learn, with nature playing a huge part in their education
The family even have a garden farm, which includes a flock of chickens and roosters, as well as rabbits and dogs.
“We do not worry about them not being in school, I’d worry about what they’d miss out on if they weren’t in school actually,”; Adele said.
“A conventional education I would say is definitely failing a large majority of children right now.”;
Astara shared her hopes to learn how to write when she’s turns “seven or eight”; but in the meantime she is focused on things like gymnastics and ballet.
As well as “outside school”;, the couple’s unconventional parenting approaching also relates to medical care.
They opt to “respect our children’s bodily autonomy”; and try to steer clear of vaccines and medication unless absolutely neccessary.
Instead, they use alternative forms of care, such as herbal teas and extracts or “anything holistic without outside effects”;.
And as for how they invision their children’s futures, the couple said they are with whatever lifestyle they choose when they grow up.
