This Morning viewers were left shocked when a one-year-old girl went to the toilet on the studio floor during today's show, and her parents didn't bat an eyelid.

Adele, 32, and Matt Allen, 33, from Brighton, call their parenting style 'Off-Grid Parenting' and their children Ulysses, five and Ostara, one, are therefore both still breastfed, have never visited a doctor and will not attend a mainstream school.

Their parenting style - which presumably doesn't include the use of nappies - came under fire from viewers after Matt failed to intervene when he spotted his daughter going to the toilet on the floor.

Adele and Matt Allen believe in an all-natural approach to bringing up their children - so much so they refuse modern medicine and traditional schooling, and their five-year-old-son is still being breastfed.

But viewers were not impressed to see Ulysses jumping around on the sofa, while Ruth Langsford looked distinctly unimpressed.

@BeBethany_69 tweeted: 'Those kids just on this morning remind me of when I learn about "feral children" in A Level English.'

Toni Utley ‏professed herself to be in a state of shock, saying: 'So gobsmacked had to watch it again. Bet these kids are annoying as hell in the supermarket', while Lucy Evans added: 'The dad saw and did nothing'.

One-year-old Ostara had an accident on the studio floor but her parents didn't seem too worried

Adele feels very strongly about full-term breastfeeding and her five-year-son still regularly feeds from her bosom for comfort

Adele and Matt also believe in attachment parenting methods, such as co-sleeping and the family of four all sleep in the same room

Adele used the family's appearance on the show to explain her unusual approach to modern medicine, shunning conventional treatments when her children had scarlet fever and chicken pox.

'We treated it naturally. We believe in the body to self heal,' she said. 'If you support the body's healing through supplements and herbs then you it will heal.

'I don't believe that bringing a fever down artificially helps the body. I believe a fever is there for a purpose to clean the body out.'

Speaking about breastfeeding Ulysses at the age of five, she said. 'It really depends on the day. He does it more at home when he's feeling tired or needs comfort.

'Not so much when we're out but sometimes if he's feeling a bit emotional he asks to. And that's fine with me.'

'So you'd be fine if he was feeling anxious now and wanted to breastfeed, you'd be very happy to do that in public?' Ruth Langsford asked.

Viewers were irked to see Ulysses jumping up and down on the sofa during the show with no intervention from his parents

Viewers complained that Adele and Matt didn't do enough to calm the boisterous pair

Ulysses bounced on the sofa as his mother discussed her views on attachment parenting

'Yes,' Emma agreed.

Ruth also pointed out that the children were clambering all over the sofa, which she said that she and Eamonn had no problem with, but she wanted to know if Ulysses is ever told off by his parents.

'He would do as we ask,' Emma said. 'We speak to him respectfully as an equal human being.

'He is a highly sensitive child so he does struggle with getting overwhelmed easily so it's important for him not to have strong, authoritarian discipline.

Ulysses, pictured with his father Matt, has a sensitive disposition and doesn't respond well to authoritarian discipline

The couple live with their two children in a one-bedroom flat in Brighton

Adele Allen giving birth to her daughter Ostara in a birthing pool, unassisted at her with just her husband Matt

And a handful of viewers were supportive of her somewhat unconventional views.

Lottie_Palmer tweeted: 'So refreshing to see these parents doing what feels natural rather than conforming.'

And TheHollyRiversShow declared she was baffled that people were horrified to see children 'jumping around, being breastfed and weeing'.

'All natural parts of being kids,' she added.

However, the vast majority of commenters did not share their opinion.

'These are the kids you see smashing things and the parents are like "oh they're just expressing themselves",' she wrote.

Rebecca Lavin ‏said she was 'gobsmacked' that the parents would 'let their children run wild and wet themselves'.

Others were amused to see Ruth Langsford struggling to conceal her disapproval as Ulysses fiddled with the glasses on the coffee table.

Liddiegerrard tweeted: 'RuthieeL looks really concerned on what them kids are doing. Put the glass down child haha.'

Many commenters expressed the opinion that off grid parenting wasn't doing much good.

Jeanie Law ‏said: 'The little boy was jumping all over the sofa, no respect for people's property.'

Meanwhile Erin Thorpe branded them the 'worst behaved kids I have seen in a long time'.

Sarah Capps added: 'These kids are running riot on #thismorning - jumping around on a sofa?! Nice question about discipline @RuthieeL!'

Caroline Wilson said the children clearly have 'no boundaries', while K_Sammy asked if Adele could 'control her kids' and get the to sit down 'properly'.

'Clearly this off-grid parenting doesn't work,' AnimalT_ said. 'Look how unruly their kids are due to having no rules.'

When Adele, a writer, fell pregnant with her son, the couple's controversial methods felt completely natural to them.

Viewers observed that Ruth did not seem particularly impressed by the couple's controversial parenting methods

Viewers were shocked that Matt, 33, failed to intervene when he noticed his daughter going to the toilet on the studio floor

Adele's children Ulysses, five, (right) and one-year-old Ostara (left) are both breastfed and will not attend school unless they ask to

She said: 'Off-grid is moving towards self sustainability and being a bit more free range and less institutionalised.'

Matt said: 'We did collect a lot of information but essentially it was just this feeling.'

Adele gave birth to both her children completely unassisted and with no medical intervention with only her husband Matt by her side.

She said: 'The thought of giving birth in a hospital just didn't appeal to me because of many reasons - mostly the observer effect.

Five-year-old Ulysses will not attend mainstream school unless he expresses a desire to

Ulysses, five, standing by the washing line hanging with reusable nappies in the back garden in Brighton

'Also, the interventions I think can be gently nudged on you when you are in a very vulnerable state.'

Adele and Matt also decided to have 'lotus births' meaning the placenta and umbilical cords were not surgically removed at birth.

Instead, Adele carried the attached placenta in a cool bag - scattered with salt and rose petals to disguise the smell - around with her until it fell off naturally.

She said: 'With both my births it took six days for the umbilical chord to fall away naturally.

'You wrap it up and keep it clean and it falls away and forms a perfect belly button.

Ulysses mostly breastfeeds at home, but Adele says she'd have no problem doing it in public if he felt distressed and needed comfort

Adele, 32, and Matt, 33, from Brighton, call their parenting style 'Off-Grid Parenting' and their children Ulysses, five and Ostara, one, are therefore both still breastfed, have never visited a doctor and will not attend a mainstream school

'In my knowledge, it's perfectly safe and it worked beautifully for us. I don't know of any known cases where it's gone wrong.

'I very much honour the postpartum-period and I didn't go out at all during that first week. So it was just a matter of transporting it to the toilet or to the kitchen.'

Adele feels very strongly about full-term breastfeeding and her five-year-son still regularly feeds from her bosom for comfort.

She said: 'Ulyssess does still nurse from time to time. Since the baby came along it has decreased rapidly and we had to come to a mutual understanding that it needed to graduate down a bit, but then I wasn't willing to say 'no you need to stop now.

'I think its up to him to decide when he wants to move on from it

His mum says it's up to Ulysses to decide when he wants to stop breastfeeding

Distrusting of modern medicine, Adele prefers to treat her youngsters' ailments naturally, squirting breast milk in their eyes to cure eye infections and serving them lemon juice when they have a cold

'It's something that's just as natural as a hug is, it's a connection.'

Aside from a hospital trip with Ulysses following an asthma attack, the Allen children have never seen a doctor or received vaccinations.

Adele said: 'I don't really see that there's any need other than using breastfeeding to supplement them.

'I don't see any need to inject any foreign substance directly into the blood stream. That's not how children will come into the contact with a germ naturally anyway, be it in the mouth or another way.'

Since his younger sister came along Ulsysses has been feeding less, but Adele will not force him to stop

Matt Allen and his son Ulysses, five, on a swing, with his daughter Ostara in their back garden

Distrusting of modern medicine, Adele prefers to treat her youngsters' ailments naturally, squirting breast milk in their eyes to cure eye infections and serving them lemon juice when they have a cold.

She said: 'If you use plants and herbs you target the bad without attacking the good bacteria as well.

'If I had something serious like cancer, I would definitely take the natural path. I whole-heartedly have faith in it now and I've experienced enough of it to know that is the way forward.

'The kids' health is just as important as mine if not more so, and so again I would go with what I trust and for me, that is the natural path.'

Adele and Matt also believe in attachment parenting methods, such as co-sleeping and the family of four all sleep in the same room.

Matt and Adele refuse modern medicine and used alternative treatments for their children when they had scarlet fever and chickenpox

Five-year-old Ulysses is allowed to pick his own bedtime and wake up when he wants as he doesn't need to be up for school. He spends his days outside in nature learning about plants

Adele said: 'It works quite nice for us. Normally we put the baby down to sleep first. Uly pretty much picks up his own bed time, but as we don't have a school routine in morning he is then able to wake up when it suits him.'

Ostara and Ulysses do not attend mainstream school and instead spend their days outside among nature, learning about plants.

The mother-of-two said: 'We basically spend lots of time in nature. It's more important to us for them to interact with animals and plants and learn about the environment than it is for them to have big sets of plastic toys.

'Ostara really likes to play with woodlice and in the mud. In the park, there's a big herb patch and she likes to pick and eat the mint leaves. Already at this young age she is thinking about what she can pick from nature and eat.'

Adele and Matt also decided to have 'lotus births' meaning the placenta and umbilical cords were not surgically removed at birth. Instead, Adele carried the attached placenta in a cool bag - scattered with salt and rose petals to disguise the smell - around with her until it fell off naturally

Aside from a hospital trip with Ulysses following an asthma attack, the Allen children have never seen a doctor or received vaccinations. The family rely on natural herbal remedies

The parents accept that reading and writing are imperative life skills but do not want learning to be forced upon their children and five-year-old Ulysses can only recognise basic letters and numbers.

Adele said: 'I don't have an issue with that. There is no need for him to be able to read and write at this age anyway.'

Instead, Adele and Matt believe that Ulysses and Ostara are becoming curious about letters and numbers from seeing them out and about.

She added: 'They see letters on drain covers and numbers on signs and then learning happens as a consequence of just being out in the world, rather than it being forced upon them in a classroom that is not particularly inspiring.'

Ulysses, five and Ostara, one, are both still breastfed, have never visited a doctor and will not attend a mainstream school

And the parents don't worry that their untraditional schooling will affect the children's future.

Adele said: 'I think home school kids are very successful entrepreneurs normally because they have been educated in that way that, they do want to build their own business and not to be a slave to someone else.'

Despite spending most of their time outdoors, Adele and Matt have decided not to smother their children in suncream the way parents are usually inclined to do.

'We don't use sun cream,' the mother continued. 'Not at all on the kids. We don't believe it protects you from cancer.

Adele writes a successful blog on natural parenting and she and Matt are adamant, despite some negative comments, they would not raise their children any other way

Adele said that a lot of the couple's natural approach to parenting came instinctively

Adele writes a successful blog on natural parenting and she and Matt are adamant, despite some negative comments, they would not raise their children any other way.

Matt said: 'The whole process of doing it in a completely different way has been an amazing journey and a learning curve for all parties involved.

'I have got such a fantastic connection and bond with both of them and they know who we are - more than just being Mum and Dad - it's a much deeper connection than that.'

The family are currently saving to migrate to Costa Rica, to live an eco-lifestyle.