‘Off-Grid Parenting’: Why Some Parents Prefer This Parenting Style

While the rest of the world embraces new approaches to parenting, Matt Allen, 33, and his wife Adele Allen, 32, from Brighton, UK won't go mainstream style of parenting. The couple upholds a non-conventional and an all-natural approach to rearing their kids, Ulysses, 5, and Ostara, 1.

According to a report on Click2Houston, the couple strongly rejects the use of modern medicine and decides not to send their children to a mainstream school. In as much as Adele and Matt turn down both traditional schooling and modern medicine, they firmly encourage full-term breastfeeding. And to cure infections, Adele surprisingly squirts breast milk in her kids' eyes, which is a common form of treatment in some countries.

Matt and Adele are firm in their belief of raising their adorable kids through "Off-Grid Parenting" as cited on The Sun. "Off-Grid Parenting" is a parenting style that shuns a number of the conventional ways brought by modern-day society.

Adele, a writer, had her two kids by Lotus birth, which refers to the process where the placenta and umbilical cords were not removed surgically at birth, but instead were carried until they naturally dropped off.

When Adele got pregnant with her son, their very controversial methods became totally natural to them. "Off-grid is moving towards self sustainability and being a bit more free range and less institutionalized," she said. She even gave birth to both her children with no medical intervention and with only Matt by her side.

For Adele, the very thought of giving birth in a hospital just did not appeal to her for a number of reasons. "Also, the interventions I think can be gently nudged on you when you are in a very vulnerable state," she said.

For most people, carrying a placenta in a cool bag after birth may seem unheard of, but such is only normal for Adele. And to hide the smell of the placenta, she would scatter salt and rose petals. "In my knowledge, it's perfectly safe and it worked beautifully for us. I don't know of any known cases where it's gone wrong," she said.