Mum-of-two Aubrey, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, won’t let her little girl have sleepovers – even with family members – and it’s divided opinion online.
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In the short clip, Aubrey sits in front of the camera with a fresh face and her hair pinned back across her head.
She begins doing her make-up as she explains her controversial rules, and invites people to call her crazy, because she won’t change her mind.
“No sleepovers, not even with family members,” she says. “And she will never be left alone with a male.
“I don’t care if you’re the grandparent, the uncle or the cousin.”
Aubrey also claims her son gets exactly the same treatment.
“I won’t treat my daughter any differently to my son,” she says. “For instance, me letting my son go out late but not my daughter because it’s too dangerous for a woman – I’m just going to treat them both the same.”
There’s no secrets allowed inside her four walls, either.
Aubrey’s children have to be open and honest with their mum no matter what.
“Secrets will not be kept from your parents,” she says. “And if you’re one of those people now saying ‘I’ll give you candy when your mum’s not here, just don’t tell her’, that’s the quickest way to never see us again.”
Aubrey grins with glee as she continues to plough through her endless list of rules.
She says her daughter doesn’t have to “kiss you, hug you or sit on your lap just because you asked her to.
“And she doesn’t have to respect you if you don’t also respect her,” she adds.
Aubrey says her kids can have mental health days when they need them and she’ll help them regulate their emotions.
And there’s no making friends at school for these two kids.
“We’re not going to do a public school system that makes you sit at a desk for eight hours and not learn anything you really care about,” she says.
She has interesting ideas about medicine too.
“We will always use holistic methods before we resort to western medicine,” she says. “And I’m not going to force [my daughter] to share or finish her plate of food.”
Aubrey’s controversial rules have ruffled lots of feathers on TikTok and people claim she’s ruining her daughter’s childhood by banning sleepovers altogether.
One shocked user wrote: “she won’t ever be allowed to have sleepovers with her friends? Those were some of my best childhood memories.”
A second troll replied: “No sleepovers is the first mistake.”
But a third defended Aubrey’s rule, commenting: “So many things happened to me as a child AT A SLEEPOVER!! Good for you mama.”
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