Off-Grid parents’ whose child weed live on This Morning beg strangers for £100k to fund their hippy lifestyle
Adele and Matt Allen have made an online plea for the huge sum so they can move to Costa Rica
HOURS after appearing on This Morning, 'Off-Grid parents' Adele and Matt Allen are begging strangers to fund their hippy, "self-sustainable" lifestyle.
Today's show saw the couple's youngest urinate on live TV, although Mother Adele insists this was 'just a leak'.
Adele and Matt Allen want £100,000 to buy plane tickets to Costa Rica and a patch of land in the South American country so they can live their idealistic, hippy dreams.
A plea made on website Fund My Travel see the couple, who share a one bedroom flat with their kids in Brighton, plead with the public to make their dreams of living sustainably in South America come true.
Their manifesto for strangers' funds reads: "We firmly believe that there are alternative parenting ways and you don't have to conform to what's expected.
"We have an all natural approach to parenting and are reaping the benefits.
"Our ultimate goal is to become self-sufficient, the way of making that happen is by moving to Costa Roca [sic] and buying a big plot of land where we can grow food, and have access to wildlife and nature in it's natural state.
"That's where we need YOUR help, we would love if you could donate any amount and help us achieve our dreams.
"We hope by doing so we not just give our kids the best possible start in life but we will inspire others to do the same and we'll share the knowledge we have gained over the course of our journey and help others who want to follow our alternative parenting path."
So far the couple have raised just £5, which was donated by Adele herself.
The couple also reiterate their parenting mantra on the website.
They explain: "We call our parenting style 'off-grid' and some key elements of it are, no rigid bedtimes set - we trust the kids to know when is the best time they want to sleep at.
"Breast milk is a great supplement, not just for infants - our 5 year old, Ulysses, can decide when he wants to stop breastfeeding.
"We believe in natural medicine and refuse modern medicine - lemon water if we have a cold & breastmilk is our cure for an eye infection!
"Being at one with nature, discovering all the different plants and for my kids to discover life through nature.
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"Home schooling. Education is important but we don't think we should be pushing traditional learning on th kids at a young age. We will eventually start to home school him rather than mainstream school."
Today the couple told hosts Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford that their son didn't attend school as he didn't want to.
As well as bragging he can almost count to twenty, Adele, 32, excused her brood's poor behaviour by explaining she can't discipline her eldest child as he is "too sensitive an individual".
Begging for money to fund their days of exploring local nature reserves with their shoe-less kids is sure to further enrage the public.
Others accused her and Matt of raising "feral children" as they clambered over the sofas and made animalistic noises as the adults spoke.
One tweeted: "These 2 are f**king mental!#OffGridParenting weirdos eating random leaves down the park,the garden is disgusting and the kids are feral!"
Another said: "I think when your kid p***es live on TV and then jumps on the couch you probably have to rethink your parenting strategies #offgridparenting."
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