JOY-Anna Duggar alarmed fans by recording a vlog while driving a car with her three children in the backseat.
The Counting On alum and her husband, Austin Forsyth, 30, are regularly criticized for their risky parenting decisions.
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Joy-Anna, 26, shared a lengthy YouTube video chronicling a busy family day in Arkansas while her husband was out on Saturday.
Part of the upload showed her driving home while talking to the camera, which she pointed at the driver’s seat.
She shared, “We’re going home, the kids had so much fun!”
Her children could be heard laughing in the backseat as Joy-Anna looked both ways for traffic.
“Uh-huh,” she said. “We went to a Mexican restaurant, so it was really good.”
The couple, who married in 2017, already have three children: Gideon, six, Evelyn, three, and Gunner, nine months.
All three little ones were in the vehicle, and at several points their heads appeared behind her as she drove forward.
Joy-Anna also described a family train trip in the town of Van Buren, Arkansas, saying everyone had a great time.
But, “I wouldn’t recommend doing this alone with three kids. I really miss Austin” — all while driving home.
At the end of the trip, all three children sat in the driver’s seat and waved at the camera.
Later in the video, Austin was surprised by his family upon returning home at the airport.
‘HUGE DANGERS’
Fans took to Reddit criticizing the decision to record a long video while driving with children.
“Happy vlogging while driving againwith the kids in the backseat,” wrote one Redditor.
“What is SO important that you need to film while driving?” wrote another.
Duggars and child safety are two parallel worlds
Concerned Duggar fan
What’s worse, later in the vlog there was footage of Austin driving a large vehicle with his two oldest children hanging free.
A third wrote: “Driving during the vlog was secondary to getting Gideon and Evelyn ALONE in the trailer of Austin’s big rig while he was backing up. Horrible! What were these people thinking?
A fourth wrote: “They are playing with fire. All it takes is one bad fall or accidental gunshot for their lives to be completely ruined. It’s so easy to just… not allow your children access to great danger.”
A fifth agreed: “Nothing better than looking at your phone instead of the road while driving.”
“We love seeing a Duggar put his kids at risk by being on his phone while driving!” echoed another.
“Duggars and child safety are two parallel worlds. Remember Jed putting his newborn by the fire,” wrote an eighth.
Others argued that Joy-Anna’s phone appeared staged during the recording, at the very least.
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DRINK ON THE WAY?
Joy-Anna recently shared some photos on her Instagram Stories as she and Austin posed in a home goods store.
The first photo showed the pair posing in cowboy hats while Joy smiled at her husband, who had a more serious expression on his face.
“Date night, just playing at Atwood’s,” the TLC star declared in text over the photo.
The second photo had Joy-Anna calling Austin “Mi amor” as they posed for a mirror selfie while inside the store.
Joy was seen wearing a bright, loose-fitting green dress that completely hugged her body, potentially covering up a pregnancy.
“I feel like she looks pregnant here? And she’s trying to hide it with her dress,” someone wrote on Reddit.
“I haven’t been keeping up with Joy lately… is she pregnant?” a second asked.
Joy-Anna and Austin welcomed their son, Gunner, in May of last year.
Around that time, the 19 Kids & Counting star uploaded a video where she said fans kept asking her if she and Austin were planning to have more children.
“Everyone’s asking me how many kids I want — if I want more, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I just had a kid,’” she laughed.
“Austin and I said four or five, but we’re not sure.
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