Octomom Natalie Nadya Suleman gets candid on her…
Natalie ‘Nadya’ Suleman is one strict mama.
The 49-year-old, who has been generally known as “Octomom” since birthing the primary surviving octuplets in 2009, revealed why she chooses to run a tight ship in the case of raising her 14 youngsters.
“I was a child and adolescent development major,” Suleman – who already had six youngsters earlier than conceiving eight kids through in vitro fertilization – advised People.
Octomom Natalie ‘Nadya’ Suleman. nataliesuleman/Instagram
“With Elijah, then Amerah, and then Josh, and then Aidan, and then the twins, I kept going to school,” she recalled about being at Cal State Fullerton after welcoming six kids, additionally through IVF. “So I was also raising them on campus with me, and I was earning my bachelor’s degree while taking 18 units in school and taking care of all my kids. I wasn’t like the media portrayed, this unemployed welfare recipient. It was not the case at all.”
Suleman confessed about her older youngsters: “I personally believe I failed as a parent to implement all of the knowledge I acquired in college.”
Natalie ‘Nadya’ Suleman and her youngsters. Instagram/@nataliesuleman
Nadya Suleman. Instagram/@nataliesuleman
“I raised them just permissive, which is wrong. You shouldn’t do that. You should implement consistent structure, discipline and consequences, plus love, unconditional love and acceptance,” she admitted to the outlet. “I only did the latter. I shouldn’t have spoiled them. I learned the hard way. But I still raised them to be kind and humble.”
But with the octuplets, who simply turned 16, Suleman “was able to implement both a combination of unconditional love, positive regard and structured discipline consequences.”
Something her youngsters can attest to.
“She’s very strict,” 16-year-old Nariyah acknowledged, “and she educates us a lot.”
Natalie ‘Nadya’ Suleman makes a uncommon public look with all eight of her infants. TTA Media / Splash News
“We don’t have phones,” she added. “We have one phone for communication.”
Another guideline applied? “They’re not allowed to date until they’re 18,” Suleman famous.
But essentially the most important family rule is “no social media,” reiterated the mother.
“It’s toxic. I don’t even like going on it. I only do it to share and I dread it. It’s like I can’t even imagine the kids these days. It’s so unhealthy. I don’t believe anyone should go on social media, or be allowed on until they’re 18 at least.”
But together with not obsessing about others online, Suleman doesn’t need her kids to be too into their own lives both.
Natalie ‘Nadya’ Suleman and her youngsters. / SplashNews.com
“I’m raising the kids not to be fixated on themselves so much,” she expressed. “It’s very different today. I’m a little more old school in how I’m raising my kids to focus on others, try to value serving because then the byproduct of that is internal joy and happiness, rather than, no offense to other people and other kids these days, but they tend to be a little more, let’s just say self-absorbed and self-entitled. I’m raising my kids to be aware of that and try to deviate away from that.”
Suleman and 11 of her 14 youngsters stay in Orange County, Calif in a three-bedroom residence. In their free time, the household partakes in video games, time on the fitness center and household film nights.
Nadya Suleman and her famiy. Instagram/@nataliesuleman
For these interested by studying more, viewers can tune into the Lifetime film, “I Was Octomom: The Natalie Suleman Story” which premieres Saturday, Mar. 8.
The doucseries “Confessions of Octomom” will then debut Mar. 10.
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