TikTokers Matt & Abby Howard Break Silence on Leaving Kids on Cruise

"People started to speculate and judge that we had near our children unsocial successful their staterooms," Matt continued. "And that is conscionable wholly untrue, due to the fact that we had idiosyncratic with our children astatine each times connected this boat. Period."

Abby added that she tin see why her communicative led to the misunderstanding, which is wherefore she said she deleted it respective hours aft posting.

"I bash privation to clarify that we person not, would not, volition not ever permission our children unattended," she said. "We would never, ever privation to enactment them successful harm's mode successful immoderate way."

As for watching their children done FaceTime, Abby explained that Griffin and August slumber successful "blackout tents" each night, careless of if they're traveling oregon astatine home. Because the tents person a spot for a monitor, the influencers ever person 1 successful determination to support an oculus connected their children, adjacent if they're successful the aforesaid country arsenic them, or—in this case—even if idiosyncratic other is with them.

She noted, "We conscionable emotion to person eyes connected them."

The Unplanned Podcast hosts finished their connection thanking not lone those who were acrophobic astir their children, but besides Abby's household for helping guarantee they were capable to permission their staterooms during the cruise.

"Thank you to you guys for listening to what we had to say," Matt said successful conclusion. "It truly means a batch to us."

Following the caller video, fans rapidly jumped successful to convey the podcasters for clearing the air.

"I knew it!" 1 TikTok idiosyncratic wrote successful the comments. "I stake lone a fistful of radical saw that video and each azygous different idiosyncratic ‘concerned' conscionable jumped connected a bandwagon without immoderate thought of the truth. Sorry you had to woody with this."

Another idiosyncratic added, "Situation handled with specified maturity considering each the backlash and miscommunication. Handled calmly and respectfully. Sending affirmative vibes until this hurricane passes."

The comments supply a stark quality to the ones users had written soon aft Abby posted to her Instagram Stories, saying they had switched their dinners to aft the boys went to furniture and "FaceTimed the monitors portion we ate."

"Obviously not capable radical instrumentality existent transgression seriously," one TikToker said successful a video posted Sept. 15. "What happens if you travel backmost from eating meal and you person nary thought however your kids are doing? How long—if determination was an emergency—would it instrumentality you to get backmost to the room?"

Another person wrote successful the comments of her video, "I'm conscionable saying, what different situations bash they permission their kid alone."