When it comes to parenting styles, every family is a world. Each couple decides how they want to raise their children according to their own beliefs, their way of life, and of course, it is absolutely respectable. But, What happens when you ask for money to finance that lifestyle you defend?Is it lawful to do so or a bit cheeky as many think?
The Allen family, whom we met when they went to a television show to talk about their unconventional parenting philosophy while the boy jumped on the couch and the girl pissed on the set, want to buy land in Costa Rica to put in march a sustainable life and raise your children out of the system. To do this, they ask for donations through crowdfunding.
Adele and Matt Allen have two children: Ulises of 5 years and Ostara of one, whom they raise without established norms. At home there is no stipulated time to go to bed, children walk barefoot everywhere and are breastfed until they decide to quit (the 5-year-old still drinks breast milk). They are encouraged to grow in contact with nature, to touch and eat all the plants that are found.
Children do not go to school because they do not believe in the institutionalization of education, they are educated at home. Nor do they believe in modern medicine or vaccines. Their children have not been vaccinated and resort to natural tricks as a remedy. They treat colds with lemon water and eye infections with breast milk.
Their dream is to live a life of self-sufficiency, a sustainable life that they want to start up in Costa Rica. That's why they ask for help through Fund My Travel (finance my trip in Spanish) to get £ 100,000 (about 120,000 euros) to buy land in Costa Rica to grow food and escape "from the system". In return, they offer for only £ 5 (6 euros), an electronic copy of the book on their foster parent that Adele has not yet written.
They want to show that another parenting style is possible and inspire other parents with their model of sustainable living. Everyone raises their children as they see fit, and I can even agree on some of their approaches, but then asking for money from other people to finance your dreams of self-reliance and living outside the system seems to me quite hypocritical and freaking out. What do you think?
