A mum lets her free-range kids drink coffee, go barefoot, eat sand and wash outside in puddles. Mara Doemland, 29, says she adopts a mixture of parenting styles to raise her brood but "doesn’t want them to be restricted" in what they do.
The mum-of-four goes barefoot herself as much as she can and gives her children - Emmy, nine, Murphy, seven, Ripley, five, and Indy, two - the option to the same if they want to. She encourages them to play out in the rain, doesn’t restrict what they eat and says it means they often choose to eat fruit and vegetables themselves.
Mara evens let her daughter, Emmy, shave her hair and allows her boys to wear pink clothing and dresses if they ask to. Mara, a stay-at-home mum said: “I’m a barefoot person and have strong feet.
