Matt and Abby Howard have addressed the “completely untrue” accusations about leaving their kids alone while on a family cruise. “We take our role as parents extremely seriously and we love our children more than anything in the entire world. We’re very protective of our kids,” Matt, 26, shared in a TikTok video uploaded on Monday, September 16.

“People started to speculate and believe that we had left our children alone in their staterooms — and that is just completely untrue.” Matt added: “We had someone with our children at all times on this boat. Period.

” Matt and Abby, 25, made headlines this past weekend after sharing an Instagram Story post that alluded to FaceTiming their sons , Griffin, 2, and August, 12 months, who were sleeping while the couple went out to dinner. Abby explained on Instagram that their baby monitors didn’t “work on board” on the cruise ship, in which they vacationed for seven nights with her entire extended family. On Monday, Abby admitted that understood where the “misunderstanding” came from after her Instagram Story went viral.

“I ended up deleting it several hours after posting it because I could see that it was causing concern and misunderstanding,” Abby said. “I do want to say thank you so much to those of you that were concerned about the safety and wellbeing of our children.” ♬ original sound – Matt & Abby She added that her and Matt’s “main concern” is their two boys.

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