Abby and Matt Howard break silence after being slammed for their 'morally unacceptable' parenting act on a cruise ship

A TikTok famous mates person surgery their soundlessness aft being blasted for letting their 2 toddlers slumber successful their cruise compartment unsocial while they dined astatine nan ship's restaurants. 

Abby and Matt Howard sparked backlash aft revealing they went to meal while their sons, Griffin, two, and August, one, slept during their seven-night cruise. 

'We ended up taking them for 5 nights and it became evident that they weren't enjoying it and truthful we weren't either,' Abby said successful a now expired Instagram story.

'So, past we switched our meal clip to aft their bedtime and FaceTimed nan monitors while we ate. And that worked retired overmuch amended for everyone.'

The mates was past forced to group nan grounds consecutive pinch a TikTok video connected Monday nighttime claiming a family personnel was ever pinch nan children. 

'We return our rolls arsenic parents highly earnestly and we emotion our children much than thing successful nan full world, and we're very protective of our kids,' Matt started off.

'We had personification pinch our children astatine each times connected this boat. Period,' Matt said, adding that the speculation surrounding them is 'completely untrue.'

His woman past chimed successful and said: 'I tin spot wherever my communicative did lead to misunderstanding which is why I ended up deleting it respective hours aft posting it because I could spot that it was causing interest and misunderstanding.' 

Abby past thanked everyone online for being 'concerned astir nan information and well- being' of their children. 

'As their parents, that is our first and foremost main concern.... So, convey you. 

'But I do want to explain that we person not, would not, will not ever time off our children unattended. We would would never, ever want to put them successful harms measurement successful anyway,' she added. 

The mother said her family would 'tag team' to thief nan mates retired pinch watching their children and added really 'thankful' they are to them for doing that. 

Viewers quickly started to estimate astir their connection arsenic 1 said: 'I dream this is nan truth.' 

'Thanks for nan explanation because it did travel disconnected for illustration nan boys were alone- discourse is everything,' wrote another. 

In Abby's original  post, she said that nan babe monitors nan mates had brought pinch them didn't activity connected committee truthful they utilized FaceTime to watch nan brace sleep. 

Social media users who travel nan mates quickly blasted them complete nan move and made reference to nan disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who vanished from her family's vacation flat successful Portugal successful 2007. 

One Reddit personification posted: 'It's virtually communal consciousness that you do not time off a babe unsocial unsupervised.

'If it was socially and morally acceptable to time off babies unsupervised by an adult, past babe sitting services would not beryllium a thing.

'Are they earnestly that f****** dumb? Do they not watch nan news, person they not seen what happened to Madeline McCann? 

'I'm really baffled pinch really irresponsible these 2 are. If they're comfortable capable to time off their babies unattended connected a cruise ship, person they done this earlier astatine home?'

While different added: 'For them to station astir it for illustration it's immoderate brilliant parenting hack is conscionable wild. 

'They are irresponsible teenagers successful big bodies.'

The mates person been together since precocious schoolhouse and person much than 5.3million followers connected TikTok much than 7 cardinal subscribers connected YouTube. 

The mates are nan hosts of 'The Unplanned Podcast,' which 'dives into genuine conversations surrounding relationships & family.'

In December of 2022, Abby told Raising Arizona Kids that nan mates wanted nan attraction of their contented to beryllium connected them handling parenting. 

She said: 'We ne'er want to sacrifice our narration aliases our family for [social media fame]. That was 1 of my biggest concerns going into this. 

'Through changeless speech and ever prioritizing america and our family is really we support doing this.

'We want nan attraction to beryllium america and really we are handling parenting alternatively than conscionable focusing each connected Griffin.'

While Matt added: 'If you would person told maine this would beryllium our life 3 years ago, I would person laughed.

'We utilized to dream astir 1 time moving together and now we get to and it's nan champion point ever.'