A mum-of-four has revealed her unusual parenting techniques as she allows her children to live as they please with her permission to drink coffee, walk around barefoot and play outside in the rain. Mara Doemland, 28, from Texas, uses a mixture of controversial approaches to parenting as she encourages her children to be free thinkers and doesn't want them to ''be restricted'' in what they do.
The stay at home mother to Emmy, 9, Murphy, 7, Ripley, 5 and Indy, 2, often goes barefoot herself and encourages her kids to do the same, the Mirror reports. She also urges them to play outside in the rain and doesn't restrict the types of food they're consuming at meal times which she claims makes them more likely to opt for fruit and vegetables themselves.
Breaking gender stereotypes, Mara allowed her nine year old daughter Emmy to shave off all her hair and is also fine with her boys wearing pink dresses. Mara, from Corpus Christi, Texas, US, said: "I'm a barefoot person and have strong feet.
