Sam Faiers celebrates ‘a decade of sharing my bed with my children’ and insists she ‘will never regret’ the parenting choice

Sam Faiers celebrated ‘a decade of sharing my bed with my children’ and insisted she has no regrets over the parenting decision in a post shared to Instagram on Sunday.

The TV personality, 35, shares Paul, ten, Rosie, nine and Edward, three, with her long-term boyfriend Paul Knightley.

In a sweet snap shared to her social media, Sam was seen dressed in a grey robe, lying in bed while cuddling her youngest child.

Planting a kiss on her toddler’s head, she shared the picture to her Stories and admitted that she has shared her bed with her children for over ten years.

She penned: ‘A decade of sharing my bed with children. I know, without question, I will never regret it.’

Sam has previously fallen victim to mum shamers after an episode of a reality show, Sam & Billie: Sister Act.

She was seen enjoying lunch with her kids however, Edward was causing something of a ruckus by throwing chips at Rosie, leaving the table and attempting to go into his mum’s handbag.

Despite Sam’s attempts to stop her son – including calling him ‘cheeky’ and saying: ‘Oi, oi! Excuse me!’ – viewers insisted her discipline was not adequate, with ‘too much pandering and not enough discipline’.

While some viewers made cruel comments, others defended the star by sympathising with the pains of dealing with toddlers, insisting resistance is obviously futile.

On the show, the family was out for food; however when the meal arrived, Edward was seen throwing his chips at Rosie, who had been quietly enjoying her own meal. Sam said: ‘Oi, oi! Excuse me!’

Despite his mum’s words, Edward didn’t listen to Sam, leaving fellow diners staring at the family. Sam responded: ‘Oh, yeah. I told him not to do it, but he’s not listening to me.’

She went on to threaten her son with leaving the eatery, yet he did not calm down and instead was filmed walking off from the table before reaching into Sam’s bag for her lip gloss.

She told him, ‘You can’t have that, it’s all sticky,’ as she removed the item. ‘Come and sit down,’ Sam urged, but he didn’t listen as he wandered around the eatery.

Edward returned to the table with a large glass of apple juice and told his famous mum it was ‘heavy’. She asked: ‘Why are you so cheeky?’

Edward smiled as she added: ‘Yeah, you’re cheeky, aren’t you?’ Speaking to the camera, Sam admitted: ‘Let’s be honest, there’s no such thing as a peaceful lunch when you’ve got a two-year-old there.’

The clip from the show was posted on TikTok, as many decided to take aim at Sam over her parenting. One said: ‘I took my daughter out to eat all the time,’ one wrote.

‘She sat in her chair, ate her food and then played with whatever I took with us to occupy her. She was not allowed to get out of her chair and certainly did not throw her food at people. I’m sorry, very poor parenting.’

Taking to TikTok, critics penned: ‘Too much pandering, not enough boundaries and discipline… too much pandering, not enough boundaries and discipline.’

‘He’s a bored two-year-old behaving like a bored two-year-old. He doesn’t need discipline. 

‘I think she needs to reconsider taking a two-year-old out for a sit-down lunch when he’s restless… I took my daughter out to eat all the time.’

‘She sat in her chair, ate her food and then played with whatever I took with us to occupy her. She was not allowed to get out of her chair and certainly did not throw her food at people. I’m sorry, very poor parenting.’

‘Sorry! You can have a peaceful lunch with your children when they have structure, and they know that it’s lunchtime and we sit, eat, and behave!’

‘Before anybody comes for me, I had five children who were taken to restaurants on the weekends, three of them Neurodiverse.’