Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over

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Is anyone watching this?

On the W Channel.

Stacey spends three nights sleeping over in a unconventional family home.

This week is a open relationship couple with a child currently living with a girlfriend.

Really interesting. I couldn’t do it. Stacey says exactly what I’m thinking.

Interested what others think.

Re the cold shower - weird. Really odd. I think that Anna thinks Alessia is very naughty anyway - she's made no secret of the fact she has been a very difficult baby - and I wonder if they discipline her harder because of that.

Many moons ago when I studied child development, I remember persistent smearing was seen as a red flag. Not the odd nappy rumage that most kids do but this seems to be going on a long time from what she said.

A red flag for what?

She seems pretty normal to me.

I caught up on this. Anna came across as depressed and trapped in a Truman show type set up, and he came across as a knobber. What kind of parent doesn’t have an immediate horrified reaction to the notion of paedophiles using the videos/photos of their kids?

And the cold shower thing? Yeesh.

Red flag- expressing unhappiness by smearing.

No idea if the kids are normal or not,I've only watched the Stacey Dooley episode on them.

Just watched this, I had never heard of them before! I’m shocked about the cold shower, I wonder where they got that advice from!

I love Stacey Dooley, what channel?

Tonight's episode is eye opening 😂

Omg that slide and climbing frame right next to the glass greenhouse 😱

Just finished watching tonight's episode. Wondering how the world would function if everyone decided to live like that.

I’m currently watching last nights

Each to their own and all that. It’s their children and they are the ones raising them.

It I do disagree with by vaccinating them and even saying they would happily take them to Africa and not give malaria tablets. Instead she would extensively research, discuss on social media and look at alternative methods.

I think that’s a very naive way of thinking considering how many people die from malaria each year.

But I think, unless it personally happens to them or their family, it will very much be head in the sand and “it works”

Yes I agree about the vaccination. I don't understand how someone can be so wilfully stupid.

I also wondered about how the kids would learn peer-to-peer social skills with seemingly noone but their parents and siblings to interact with. (Appreciate this was only an edited segment of their lives, but it didn't look like it might be a priority for the parents.)

I often wonder what these sorts of parents would do if they had a child with a medical condition which desperately needed conventional medicine - how it would change their mindset.

I've just started last nights now.

I was a little frustrated at Stacey Dooley's attitude as she seemed to smile and nod when the parents were speaking to her, and then get to a private area and go on about how bad this was, saying she disagreed with it all. She seemed to be quite closed minded about it and at times rather snarky (for example, the question about what the boy was learning from playing outside).

We home educate, although we are more semi-structured about it, so my dcs do reading/literacy and maths every day. My dcs have a fair bit of input on additional subjects, and they do regular activities and meetups with friends. I don't agree with some of the ideas of the couple in the show, such as no vaccinations, but I also feel that editing played a big part in the direction the show went.

I imagine a LOT was edited considering the mum was hardly in it.

Their egos must be huge if they think that by reading up on the internet that is enough to protect them from diseases 🙄

I didn't like the way they ate at all, there was something a bit odd about the boy hunched over his meal like someone was going to to snatch it away from him. Gathering around to eat is such a basic human thing to do,really weird not to eat together imo.

They were slagging Stacey off in the Mail today,I though the fact Stacey declined to comment spoke volumes about what a nice person she is ( comes across as on telly,I don't know her in person)

This is that pair that were crowdfunding for a move to Costa Rica to “live off the land” a few years back. I guess that didn’t work out. They’ve certainly been on telly a few times and go to the press at the drop of a hat - they seem to like the spotlight.

I do agree though that it would be better if Stacey had actually challenged / questioned them directly on the bits she didn’t agree with rather than address her misgivings to camera. It would have been interesting to see what they’d have said, it might have been quite revealing. (I’m thinking of how Louis Theroux might have done it.)

I found it pretty interesting that they let the kids sit with their faces pressed up against tablets but didn't think they needed to learn to read or write...

I’ve been loving this series and watched the latest one last night, I did feel like Stacey could of pressed them further on some of their views, she clearly really disagreed with their way of life but only really expressed that privately. the dad came across as actually ok, except his view that we should all just rely on the system to spend more time with our kids, what did he think would happen to our nhs if we did that?!? I think they’ve been extremely lucky to never need any serious medical help and I think the day they do will seriously change their outlook. The mum annoyed me, she came across as patronising when actually she was spouting a load of shite, especially about the vaccinations ( they get their immunity from having a dog for example). I wondered how they have been allowed to withdraw the children from mainstream education though with no clear home schooling in place?

@JemimaTab I said the exact same re Louis Theroux last night! I think Stacey has the same sort of vibe as him , But he has the knack of asking the really awkward questions in a non confrontational way as if he’s asked someone where they went on holiday last year. I love Stacey on this but I think Louis would of got more out of them

I think if Stacey pressed the hard questions, she’s not likely to be invited to other places.

People aren’t going to want someone to stay over if they are openly questioning their choices too harshly

She has to toe a fine line

I wonder why they got evicted from their last house?

Oh the mum annoyed me too.
That baby was permanently glued to her, poor thing, it was getting frustrated, I think it just wanted to be put on the floor for a good old kick. It was like she was showing us that that was her role - she was a mum, holding the baby, but the older two seemed neglected and all the children were unstimulated.

'Unschooling' indeed, just a chance for them to be lazy. If you don't want them to go to school fair enough but bloody teach them something. The dog walk could've been an opportunity for them to learn the different trees/ butterflies etc. The Dad saying it was a Geography lesson, ha, you can't just point to the town/country and call that a lesson.

That poor boy didn't seem to have any social skills at all, eating his food on his own on the floor. As for the dog fasting, jeez - in other words they sometimes forget to feed the poor thing

It annoyed me very much and I agree Louis Theroux would've questioned them more.

There no way a dog fasts unless it's ill.

Baby was desperate to be put down.

Older kids needed a damn good hair brush for starters.

I have nothing against home schooling,I used to live somewhere where there was a huge HS community and tbh they were streaks ahead in the main of kids going through main stream school BUT these kids just seemed to be left to it, I didn't see one example of any teaching at all. Unschooling indeed

I was shouting at the telly watching this.

What arrogance that mum has. Does she really believe that all those people dying of malaria only need to read a bit on the internet and use the "local remedies" to sort themselves out? And her breast milk and proximity to a family dog will be enough to off set not vaccinating the children? What "extensive research" has she done given that she is a qualified linguist who never used her degree?

As for the father who finds it is not in his psyche to work to provide for his family and that him wanting to be around his children was a much nobler occupation. More people should do that, apparently!!! Who is going to pay for us all, I wonder?

Those poor children. Sitting hunched over an i-pad or a plate of food on the floor, like little feral creatures and being told that walking through a wooded area is "learning geography" and that the world isn't always what it seems.

The mind boggles!!

@toooldforthisshirt37 well said! Those poor children. I was nearly in tears watching.

Absolutely barking, I might have to turn it off.