People call me a ‘lazy’ mum because homework’s optional for my kids – there’s more to life than good grades

A MUM has been branded "lazy" aft boasting that homework is optional for her kids - and it's not her lone arguable parenting rule.

Danielle Gallacher allows her 2 boys unlimited surface clip and encourages them to deed idiosyncratic backmost if they're deed first.

The 32-year-old claimed schoolhouse homework isn't enforced for her sons - Caiden, nine, and Oliver O'Donnell, 5 - arsenic "kids nowadays person capable stress".

After flippantly adding "who needs the stress?" successful a TikTok station astir her parenting techniques, she was bombarded by trolls calling her "lazy" and "on the roadworthy to disaster".

She besides revealed she's fto Caiden play retired without supervision since property six.

Danielle explains her and fiance Jordan O'Donnell, 32, person taken an "old-fashioned" attack to parenting arsenic they judge kids are enactment nether excessively overmuch stress.

The civilian servant says she tried to unit Caiden to bash his homework successful the archetypal twelvemonth of superior school, aged five, but tantrums meant helium "didn't benefit" from it.

She began leaving him to take whether helium completes it oregon not and 5 years aboriginal she says he's learned to equilibrium homework and "being a kid".

Her TikTok video has been viewed much than 1.6 cardinal times with users divided betwixt criticising her and applauding her "common-sense approach" without "millions of rules".

Some suggested her parenting techniques would mean her kids regularisation her and bash what they want.

But the mum of 2 insists her parenting traits aren't lazy and are simply that she understands there's much to beingness than doing good successful school.

Danielle from Glasgow, Scotland, said: "People person said I don't worth acquisition but I do.

"You request to person a equilibrium betwixt acquisition and being a kid due to the fact that parents and kids don't person overmuch clip betwixt getting location and bedtime.

"I wanted to station to amusement there's each antithetic ways of parenting children and not 1 mode is close oregon wrong.

"I consciousness kids nowadays person a batch of accent connected them and there's acold excessively overmuch anticipation truthful we genitor successful the old-school mode we were brought up, without immoderate stress."

She added: "We utilized to beryllium rather antithetic with homework and marque Caiden bash it earlier helium did thing other but it conscionable caused chaos and helium didn't privation to bash it. He wasn't benefiting from it.

"He's got a week to bash his homework truthful if he's excessively bushed to bash it and wants to play with his friends past that's fine. It's a 9-3 school, truthful it's fundamentally a full-time job.

"We switched to him choosing, truthful if helium wants to bash it past large but if helium doesn't past he's got to spell to schoolhouse and astir apt get into occupation for not doing it. So helium learned.

"Five years connected and helium manages his clip good astir football, Xbox, playing retired with his friends and telling america he's going to bash his homework.

"My mode isn't lazy. Just due to the fact that it is optional that doesn't mean we wouldn't assistance him with something.

"The bulk of the clip helium doesn't request immoderate assistance and If he's making mistakes past that should beryllium handed to amusement a teacher he's doing thing wrong.

"There's much to beingness than conscionable doing good successful school. There's societal skills to person and there's the satellite to see.

"If you don't get the grades you tin spell into further education. It tin beryllium corrected."

Danielle looks backmost fondly connected her puerility wherever she'd often play retired without worrying astir her information oregon education.

She insists allowing children to play retired astatine a young property should beryllium connected the determination and explains she lives successful a quiescent residential country with greenery.

She's besides banned chewy sweets but insists it's much a idiosyncratic penchant than a basal against sugary foods arsenic Caiden choked connected 1 arsenic a two-year-old.

The mum, who is connected a two-year vocation break, was keen to warrant each constituent successful her viral database of parenting traits.

Danielle said: "As agelong arsenic my kids are well-mannered and they effort their champion past I don't deliberation we tin inquire for overmuch more.

"I recognize limiting surface clip for immoderate children but I don't deliberation excavation walk excessively overmuch clip with screens to bash that.

"We don't bounds our surface clip arsenic adults and we usage our phones each time and past ticker TV astatine nighttime truthful that's a spot hypocritical.

"Caiden would alternatively beryllium retired playing and if it's raining he'll spell to his friends location oregon they'd travel to ours.

"When he's playing retired there's the aforesaid dangers present arsenic determination was backmost past but present it's publicised more.

"The magnitude of bullying successful kids' lives, I deliberation it's bully for them to beryllium capable to instrumentality up for themselves too."

Danielle's arguable TikTok has much than 4,000 comments and 34,000 likes.

One wrote: "The homework 1 is simply a roadworthy to disaster."

A 2nd said: "Try their best, yet they're allowed to person arsenic overmuch surface clip arsenic they want. Yeah okay."

A 3rd hater added: "It's called lazy parenting, love."

Another said: "Basically the kids regularisation you and bash what they want."

However immoderate agreed with Danielle and said: "Thank God for an aged schoolhouse household with morals and communal sense."

Another said: "I emotion this, if it works for you and your kids are blessed and polite past surely it's a success? Ignore the haters."

Meanwhile, a 3rd echoed: "Love this. Just however we were raised earlier the satellite went brainsick with a cardinal rules."