Every good parent just wants the best for their child, but almost every parent has a different idea of how to best raise their children- especially when it comes to breastfeeding.
Most parents are advised to exclusively breastfeed until their baby is a year old if they can, yet many moms struggle to even make it to a year, nevermind 5 years of breastfeeding. However, one mom who calls her parenting style ‘off-grid parenting’ has no plans to stop despite the criticism she’s received from breastfeeding her 5-year-old son, which is twice the average age that children in the United States get weaned.
“We parent according to what we feel in our hearts. We don’t want our children to be institutionalised. Everything is natural. We never wake them up at a set time, we want them to be in tune with their bodies.” mom Adele Allen said about her controversial parenting methods to her 5-year-old son Ulysses and 1-year-old daughter Ostara.
“Ulyssess does still nurse from time to time. Since the baby came along it has decreased rapidly and we had to come to a mutual understanding that it needed to graduate down a bit, but then I wasn’t willing to say ‘no you need to stop now,'” Adele said of her controversial choice to breastfeed her son. “I think it’s up to him to decide when he wants to move on from it. It’s something that’s just as natural as a hug is, it’s a connection.”
Aside from full term breastfeeding, Adele also feels strongly that Ulysses or Ostera are not treated by doctors and are never enrolled in mainstream schools. So far, Ulysses has been home schooled but can’t read or write, and when the children get sick, she prefers to use natural remedies, which includes squirting breast milk in their eye to cure eye infections.
Watch the entire video below to see the unusual way this couple has decided to raise their children.
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Breastfeeding Mom Refuses To Wean Her 5-Year-Old Son is an article from: LifeDaily