Fans and critics are sounding alarms after watching a video Little People, Big World star Audrey Roloff shared on social media. Those concerned are expressing that the video featuring her kids isn't only dangerous and displays "horrific" parenting, but they're baffled that Audrey would even share the video.
The video was shared on Audrey's Instagram Stories on January 20 and has since expired.
But someone took a screen recording of the video and posted it to a popular Reddit community that discusses the famous reality family.
According to the screen recording, we can see Audrey's three kids, 5-year-old Ember Jean, 3-year-old Bode James, and 1-year-old Radley Knight, all sitting in one crib together. The video appears to be taken from a baby monitor that was set up in one of the kids' bedrooms.
The three kids are all inside what looks like a standard-sized crib, and they weren't sitting still.
In the video, the three kids seem to be crowded together. At one point it looks like Ember picks up her youngest sibling and moves him to another corner of the crib.
From there, it looks like Ember then tries to climb out of the crib, slinging both of her legs over the rail, only to change course. Instead of jumping out of the crib, it looks like she swings both of her legs back into the crib, landing them on Bode.
Things escalated from there, according to the Reddit community.
The video also seems to capture the Ember knocking Bode over before placing her foot onto his back, nearly knocking him into Radley.
On the video's caption, it appears Audrey isn't concerned, seemingly finding the video funny.
"When you need to shower … everyone in the crib," she wrote, adding a grinning squinting face emoji.
While Audrey appeared to find this funny, it was clear that the Reddit community did not.
One Redditor details what happened to her when she left her kids unattended for one minute and how quickly things can go wrong.
"My 2 yr old scaled the baby gate, picked up my newborn, & dropped her, all in about one minute," she shared. "This is TERRIBLE parenting. Ember should definitely know better but the fact that she doesn't is on Aubrey."
"Omg yea this is very disturbing, that little girl could of seriously injured that baby," another concerned Redditor wrote. "What is wrong with her?"
"This is horrific," another added. "I mean cramming them all in a crib is bad enough but this oldest one seems to have absolutely no compassion or empathy… and is actually violent. She could have really hurt that little boy."
A few people came to Audrey's defense.
"Ummmm, they are fine," one person wrote. "We were climbing actual trees roaming the neighborhoods until dark. Kids don't need to be bubble wrapped people."
"It was not intentional," another Redditor added, speaking about Ember seemingly stepping on Bode. "Y'all are reaching or have never had siblings."
It’s not likely Audrey is going to address the concerns, and we know that sometimes social media doesn’t tell the whole story. Hopefully the kiddos are all OK.
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