A MUM has been branded "lazy" after boasting that homework is optional for her kids - and it's not her only controversial parenting rule. Danielle Gallacher allows her two boys unlimited screen time and encourages them to hit someone back if they're hit first. The 32-year-old claimed school homework isn't enforced for her sons - Caiden, nine, and Oliver O'Donnell, five - as "kids nowadays have enough stress".
After flippantly adding "who needs the stress?" in a TikTok post about her parenting techniques, she was bombarded by trolls calling her "lazy" and "on the road to disaster". She also revealed she's let Caiden play out without supervision since age six. Danielle explains her and fiance Jordan O'Donnell, 32, have taken an "old-fashioned" approach to parenting as they believe kids are put under too much stress.
The civil servant says she tried to force Caiden to do his homework in the first year of primary school, aged five, but tantrums meant he "didn't benefit" from it. She began leaving him to choose whether he completes it or not and five years later she says he's learned to balance homework and "being a kid". Her TikTok video has been viewed more than 1.
6 million times with users split between criticising her and applauding her "common-sense approach" without "millions of rules". Some suggested her parenting techniques would mean her kids rule her and do what they want. Most read in Fabulous But the mum of two insists her parenting traits aren't lazy and are simply th.
