A mum is raising her children as plant-based - by showing "cruel" farming videos to "educate" them.
Lynds Aurora, 33, and her husband, Richie, 35, are both vegan and bring up their children - aged 14, 11, eight and six weeks - on fruit, vegetables, whole grains and nuts.
The couple feel so strongly about not eating meat they have shown their brood videos of "cruel" farming to "educate" them and say it has put them off for life.
Lynds and Richie say if one of their children told them they wanted to start eating meat they would educate them on why they don't.
Richie, a home schooler, from Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, said: "At the end of the day it is their decision.
"They have asked us why they don't eat meat and we have shown them how animals are treated and told them it is not necessary.
"We told them the reasons about it is cruel and they haven't wanted to since."
The couple also do not send their children to mainstream school - instead choosing to home educate them for three hours a day and teach them maths, science and english.
The parents say they made their first first "controversial" decision to take their eldest daughter out of mainstream education when she was just six years old.
Since then they haven't enrolled any of their other children into the mainstream education system.
Richie said: "Our first child was let down by the school system.
"She had a lot of hearing problems and struggled to hear but a lot of teachers misunderstood her.
"Through homeschooling we have been able to learn from our children and realise that they all come on in different stages.
"We teach them each around three hours a day, over a few hours you can cover what they do one to one in a whole school day."
Lynds also says she will not let their newborn daughter leave her side until she is over three years old - as she will exclusively breastfeed her until she's three years old.
Richie and Lynds are also passionate about co-sleeping with their children as they said it brings them better night of sleep.
Richie said: "The fact we're co-sleeping and breastfeeding, our daughter is very attached to us.
"With being breastfed, if they were to spend the night away we would need to pump and feed so it is easier that she is with us.
"Also, we want to wait until they are more sturdy to be able to take care of themselves."
Lynds added: "With our fourth child, the first couple of nights she slept next to us in the basket and would wake up crying.
"We brought her into our bed after a few days and she started having a fulfilling night of sleep."
"The more we have done co-sleeping the more it seemed like a natural thing to do.
"The kids will wake up and cuddle us in the night rather than kicking and screaming.
"The two eldest share a room now and our eight year old has her own room and our youngest shares the bed with us."
Lynds Aurora, 33, and her husband, Richie, 35, are both vegan and bring up their children - aged 14, 11, eight and six weeks - on fruit, vegetables, whole grains and nuts.
The couple feel so strongly about not eating meat they have shown their brood videos of "cruel" farming to "educate" them and say it has put them off for life.
Lynds and Richie say if one of their children told them they wanted to start eating meat they would educate them on why they don't.
Richie, a home schooler, from Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, said: "At the end of the day it is their decision.
"They have asked us why they don't eat meat and we have shown them how animals are treated and told them it is not necessary.
"We told them the reasons about it is cruel and they haven't wanted to since."
The couple also do not send their children to mainstream school - instead choosing to home educate them for three hours a day and teach them maths, science and english.
The parents say they made their first first "controversial" decision to take their eldest daughter out of mainstream education when she was just six years old.
Since then they haven't enrolled any of their other children into the mainstream education system.
Richie said: "Our first child was let down by the school system.
"She had a lot of hearing problems and struggled to hear but a lot of teachers misunderstood her.
"Through homeschooling we have been able to learn from our children and realise that they all come on in different stages.
"We teach them each around three hours a day, over a few hours you can cover what they do one to one in a whole school day."
Lynds also says she will not let their newborn daughter leave her side until she is over three years old - as she will exclusively breastfeed her until she's three years old.
Richie and Lynds are also passionate about co-sleeping with their children as they said it brings them better night of sleep.
Richie said: "The fact we're co-sleeping and breastfeeding, our daughter is very attached to us.
"With being breastfed, if they were to spend the night away we would need to pump and feed so it is easier that she is with us.
"Also, we want to wait until they are more sturdy to be able to take care of themselves."
Lynds added: "With our fourth child, the first couple of nights she slept next to us in the basket and would wake up crying.
"We brought her into our bed after a few days and she started having a fulfilling night of sleep."
"The more we have done co-sleeping the more it seemed like a natural thing to do.
"The kids will wake up and cuddle us in the night rather than kicking and screaming.
"The two eldest share a room now and our eight year old has her own room and our youngest shares the bed with us."
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00:00 I took my child out of school because the school neglected her. Let me tell you about it.
00:05 So I'll tell you what happened in the weeks leading up to taking my child out of school and
00:08 why we are homeschooling. So Rosie was five or six when we took her out of school and she was
00:13 halfway through year one. So in the weeks before taking her out, Rosie was totally neglected at
00:18 school. Rosie was being treated really unfairly by the teachers and by the other students. Even
00:23 after taking Rosie out of school, we had never intended on homeschooling and we had never even
00:27 heard of it. When Rosie used to go to school, she never ever ate or drank. They used to let her go
00:32 in for a dinner, eat her pudding, which was always like one cupcake, and then come out for the rest,
00:37 come out to play. I used to give her a water bottle every day to take in and every day she would
00:43 return with a full water bottle. One of the weeks leading up to us taking her out of school was 20
00:49 to 25 degrees and she was still coming back super dehydrated, which led to constipation. When Rosie
00:55 was little also, she had gluea. So she found it really hard to hear and the teacher was putting
01:00 her at the back of the class so she couldn't hear what was going on. So she didn't understand the
01:04 work that she was being given and a lot of the time she lost her golden time. Bear in mind she's
01:09 five or six, so because she didn't complete her work, she'll be held in during break times and
01:16 for two of the weeks out of the month, she didn't have one break time. And I just think that's
01:21 really cruel. And I know this isn't the school's fault, but when she did get out to play, I had a
01:25 feeling something was going on. So I asked the teachers and they said, "No, everything's fine."
01:30 And Rosie told us that day, she says, "No, actually, they've done this about four or five
01:34 times. I've got halfway up the fence and I've nearly been, I've nearly got over and they've
01:40 dragged us off." So then try and climb over the fence. And I didn't know this was happening until
01:46 Rosie said, "Oh, they've dragged us back in today." And I said, "What do you mean? What do you mean
01:50 they've dragged you back in?" And she went, "Oh, I tried to climb over the fence again, mom, because
01:54 I just wanted to get to you. I just wanted to go spend time with you. I didn't want to be in school."
01:59 There was this one little boy in Rosie's class and every time they had to line up to go to the dinner
02:04 hall, he would bite whoever was in front of him. And me and Richie were just sick of the whole thing.
02:09 And that was just normalized. So he was, they were sick of telling him off. He did it every single
02:14 time. So she wasn't happy there. She wasn't learning. She wasn't eating or drinking. It was
02:18 causing her to be constipated. So we found out that all we had to do to deregister Rosie from
02:23 school was to write one sentence saying, "I wish for my child to be taken off the register."
02:29 So that's what we did the next day. We said, "We'll do it for a year. We'll see how it goes.
02:34 And then we'll decide whether we're going to keep doing it or not, or until we find another school."
02:39 We just stuck. We absolutely loved it. And then we obviously went on to have three other children
02:45 and two of them, Aurora and Isabelle, has been homeschooled their entire lives. They've never
02:50 been on nursery and they've never been to school. I taught them how to read and write, learned
02:55 everything from me and Richie. Once a year, the local authority comes out to talk to us and say
03:00 what they've done. Personally, I let them into my house. We have a really good relationship with
03:05 them. And the kids absolutely love to show them what they've been doing. The kids love to show
03:10 them the work. They don't have to, but I say, "Let's keep this work to show our officer." I'll
03:16 make a homeschooling video soon and show you what we get up to. Watch out for that video. Bye.