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The frustrating thing is, if this was a family, who had fallen on hard times, living with 3 kids and 4 dogs in a small apartment because that's all they can afford...SOME kind of agency would 100% be called. It's only fun, cool, and eccentric when you are wealthy.
And when you are white. This is the same with Ruby Franke and her ‘religious liberty’ (the liberty to commit child abuse)
Yep! I lived in my car most of last year and even though im in Australia, met families on both sides of this.
It was the hardest thing I've ever done, and that was just me and my partner.
I couldn't even imagine being a kid and having such little personal space or no fixed address. It's baffling people would actively chose to put their children through this "lifestyle".
This 100%. I once heard someone say things like van life and tiny homes are rich people gentrifying what it’s like to have less. Can’t see it differently now.
@@your_mom694We could start calling trailer parks, "tiny home villages" and the wealthy would eat it up.
That is SO TRUE.
"i was a terrible student so im not gonna let my kids go to regular school" is a wild take
"I learned nothing from school so my kids dont need it" is so painful to hear. Ignorance begetting worse ignorance. Also not staying in one place really removes the possibility of consequences and responsibilities. Cant even get a library card.
Tbf schools nowadays don't teach children what they really need to be taught to prepare for adulthood. They'd rather poison their minds with gender ideology and shoving lgbt in their faces rather than teaching them important things like taxes, resumes, employability skills.
Most libraries are connected now, I only know because I actually can’t get a library card. I used to go to the library a lot and I had Movies and books in my car while I got into a horrible car accident, I flipped my car 3 times on the highway and almost everything in my car was thrown out. The car was taken to the impound because it was totaled and I was taken to the hospital. I went to the impound to try to save what I could when I got out of the hospital but it had rained and whatever books didn’t get thrown out were soaked. I explained what happened to the library but they wanted like 100$ for each book and 55 for each movie I was broke at the time so I couldn’t have payed it if I wanted to and the result is I can’t get a library card anywhere because they are all connected.
@@samsalamander8147which country are you in? or which state if you are from the usa? bc this sounds crazy and many libraries around me have started to do away with fines to draw people back in
@@skyoutofraindrops I’m in Massachusetts, this happened on Cape Cod at the Falmouth Public Library. I called them right after the accident and told them what I lost and they wanted me to replace every book and movie at a premium price. One of the kids books my daughter took out they wanted 290$ for it I called them absolutely upset and asked them if there was some type of leniency program and they said no but I could look for the books and movies myself and give them to them or I could pay them to do it for me. It happened about 10 years ago and recently my Daughter tried to get a library card in Foxboro where we were living and they said no because she owed money too. The books that didn’t get ejected from the accident got soaked because they had to cut the roof open to get me out and I was in the hospital so I couldn’t do anything about it. Between the two of us we owe thousands to the library that we will never pay.
@@samsalamander8147 That's probably all the SAILS network. They have a list of locations on their website, so you could maybe try and find one that's not in the network. It seems like all of them are unless you go pretty far away though.
Something needs to change with the way content about young minors is monetized
I believe that is happening behind the scenes now!
what's a young minor?
i agree! at least child actors have the coogan act where the money they make has to be put in an account for them but there’s no regulation for youtube idek how they would go about it but it needs to happen
@@symbiote1982pk younger than 16/17
@@yamomma8560 also a lot of regulations about how many hours they can work and stuff too
There’s something really funny about how they have “the whole USA” as a backyard when like… not only is there so much private property that the public will have 0 access to, but also ah yes, gas stations and Starbucks and parks that are never cleaned (unless it’s a national park and then ya back to technically private property). ‘Wooo’
If a parent wants to help a child deal with anxiety...they could talk to the kid about what is the source of the anxiety. Is the filming the problem? Is it a sensory thing? Smells, and slick soapy feel? Are there a ton of dishes? Maybe having a partner? A sibling could help, or God forbid a parent! Is the kid sick of that chore? Try chore rotations? I have played games of "gearing up" for vanquishing the evil dust bunnies, played basketball to get laundry into the washer, had cartoon fights with dishes that don't want to get washed....and danced kid through I an endless number of chores. These parents are incompetent.
You sound like a great parent ❤ I got sick of it, but the “clean up, clean up… everybody do your share” song helped me turn a lot of my daughter’s childhood chores into fun activities I shared with her.
Bro doesn’t even pay a lighting bill. Also can’t help but feel like these kids have no access to the outside world so if any abuse goes on behind closed doors then who do they go to? They def have to hear their parents do the nasty and that’s traumatic enough. I’m also really intrigued as to how these kids learn how to read and write? I am absolutely shocked these people are parading their poor choices around for thousands to see.
Thank you for mentioning poverty. As someone who has to co-habilitate, it can be hard. I can only imagine how much different it is as a parent who may be homeless or living in a car. Sometimes we have no other choice. To live the "van life" though; and use kiddos as a 'prop' it seems very demeaning. Children are NOT props. We should be doing our best with what we have to help our children grow.
Children should not be “props,” but it is only in a fairly modern entirely privileged world where that’s not the norm. Children existing as labor, in ways we’d all agree are horrible, has always been a thing that the most desperate have done. As wrong as you or me may see it(cause it is wrong and horrible) people pimp their kids out however they can, especially when they come from rural or agrarian backgrounds. Children are labor, but labor in a “new” or changing world looks dfferent, a kid at a farm will work a 5am-to 5pm in a field or barn, and a kid in a city might be cigarette boy or a prostitute because that is the demand of an economic system that desperate parents try to fulfill. I grew up in extreme poverty, my mother never made any of us work in anyway, and i can thank her for that, but i can’t hold her up and go “that’s how easy it is to not exploit your kids” because we simply just didn’t have the same situations as the other kids i knew who worked, some slang dope, some did light prostitution, no matter how bad it is, it just is. And sometimes, like here, we need to recognize that the evil ppl do isn’t always a berometer of how evil they are, but instead measures how evil the situation they’re put in is. Not saying that’s what you are doing, just wanting to add a further perspective to your comment on poverty
@HarringtonsApocy I agree! And I just now realized it may seem like I'm exploiting my kids the way I commented lol. I was referring to living situations. You're absolutely right though.
I knew a couple of seniors living in a van close to my place. Let me tell you, it's only fun when you're wealthy and you know you have a way out.
i remember red, white, and bethune from the gabby petito case. they happened to catch a glimpse of brian closing the van door as their own van approached it on a trail. it turns out gabby was already gone at that point but their video was a huge piece of the puzzle when figuring out the timeline. we were all distracted at the time but i remember thinking, yep those family vloggers are gonna ride this bit of fame right into the ground. i’m surprised they changed their name after, since their credited clips were all over the national news!!
Oh interesting! They had a school bus back then. Guess they downsized 🙁
yes! i thought i recognized them.
That’s why their name sounded familiar…
Oh wow I had a feeling that was the same couple noticed at first because they looked so much like them 🤔
They probably changed their name because everybody hated them. They thought they could make a fresh start.... The problem is mom didn't change her "me me me" so people still don't like them.
I had a pretty unstable upbringing myself, moving house and towns 15 times before the age of 12 - not necessarily a “nomadic” childhood but I never had a home base until then. I’m 28 now and I’m only just realising (through therapy) that this is one of the reasons I have such bad anxiety and a sense of restlessness, just like the lady in the article mentioned about always feeling as though she needed to be doing something. I am completely fucked from the constant moving around, so I can only imagine what these kids go through having to live in a glorified van. And all while having a camera shoved in their faces documenting everything? It’s fucked.
Honestly same here. I never lived anywhere for more than 3 years until my late twenties and it messed me up. I can’t imagine *nothing* around you even being semi permanent.
I had a similar childhood . I’ve been in my house 22 years , my kids have never been forced to move , I’ll never move ;) I do like to travel , I’ll always come home .
I ran away from home at 17, because my parents were trying to force me and my 3 brothers to live with them, PLUS three cats and a rabbit, in a small motor home. Me choosing to couch hop instead ruined my relationship with all of them forever, but the resentment my siblings still feel even years later must just be awful. And I felt/feel horrible for not being able to “do more”, even though I was only a kid myself! Safe and affordable housing for all. No one should have to survive this shit
I remeber getting these people in my shorts sometime earlier this year, and the kids always just seemed sick of it and uninterested in the camera (obviously). As a kid who was forced to move constantly throughout my childhood, I cannot imagine forcing my children to go through the pain of never having a stable environment where they have the freedom to explore and learn important social skills.
There are many traditionally nomadic cultures. And when you look into those, you see that the living conditions are so much better and much better thought through. This is just...ugh I hope that the kids will soon find stable happy homes
also the main difference between van life and many traditional nomadic cultures is that in nomadic cultures people travel in pretty big communities with a stable social infrastructure, so there's always a community of people to turn to, instead of just 2 parents with a dozen kids
Yes, absolutly agree! @@xandermin
Also they actually do REAL things like generally they tend animals, look at how Mongolian people live. They're very self sufficient and learn business. I was homeschooled for the first half of my life because, we were really poor and too far from good schooling. So I learned about sheep and selling sheep and wool. Was it perfect? No but I did learn. I think just....wondering around aimlessly is kind of..... really horrible for kids.
Those nomadic cultures travel as a group - you take your hometown, family and friends along with you.
My family were essentially hardcore surfers. We had a permanent home but would spend the summer chasing the best waves and weather conditions in a camper van. I remember waking everyday before it was light out so we could drive (sometimes 1 hr+ away) to the best spot for the day and feeling like I was never really home, just in a state of transit 24/7, like being trapped at an airport. I hated it but as I grew older, staying in one place started to feel wrong as well, just like the kid described in the video. You end up left with this weird unstable anxiety, almost like constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop.
I moved like 6 times as a kid and hated it. I can’t imagine how lonely it would be to be stuck in a van with your family 😔
The sad thing is, this family previously had a MASSIVE decked out bus that found Gabbie Petito’s van on that tragic day. It’s crazy how things change so quickly. The economy is a mess so I empathize with the reasons they chose this in the first place. However, when I watched them in the beginning of their journey, it was far more family oriented and they all had pretty reasonable spaces bc of the automobile they initially had.
If and when the kids are able to leave, at least they'll hopefully know the roads well enough to get well away from the parents if they choose to
Just logistically it's a nightmare. In my house currently we have 4 people, 2 toilets but only one bath/shower. And yeah it does get annoying with even that few people and an extra toilet. Can't imagine what it's like with a full family in that type of setup. This would be maybe okay for a single person or couple short-term.
As a homeschooling mom who travels a lot with my husband and kids, Ive researched every faucet of every kind of homeschooling style, and though I get the principle behind it, unschooling was the least appealing to me and there are parents who abuse the method ans just refuse to even make sure their kids learn the basic "R's." Though many people encouraged us to try it with our son who has adhd/odd, SPD, Speech apraxia and dyspraxia, which is why the ridgid-ness of public school didnt work for him..a little structure goes a long way for him.
Thanks for sharing! Structure is sometimes underrated! I definitely thrive with it. Otherwise, too many decisions every single day.
I'm surprised you didn't mention that these people were the ones who filmed Gabby Petito's van shortly before she was murdered, the creepy footage with the flip flop on the ground and the door closing as they approached.
I would absolutely hate my parents if they were unschooling van life family vloggers (or just family vloggers period).
You know it's not all sunshine and roses off camera for these van lifers and the poor kids are going to be behind once they grow up.
Also gotta love how this family are all about mental health...but make their eldest wash dishes despite it causing her distress and not giving their kids privacy from both themselves and everyone on the internet.
As an autistic kid (not diagnosed until I was an adult) van life would have been a complete nightmare. Stability, routine, and predictability was EVERYTHING to me as a kid, and still is to an extent. Not to even mention having your life broadcasted online. Just awful to think about.
These are the most selfish parents. Anyone who lives the "van life," or "unschools" their kids are thinking only of themselves.
Тhe biggest problem with those "alternative homes" is the lack of privacy. I cannot imagine not being able to just relax in a space where I can control the noise, the stimuli and the security.
To know that these parents chose to put their kids in this hell is so surprising. Knowing they can provide a normal home for them and they are not downsizing out of neccessity
As a psychology student I’m curious about where their stats are coming from. 10% vs 80% is a BIG claim
as a single person with no kids or family to drag along with me, this would make sense FOR ME and people like me. Not people with three kids, AND FOUR DOGS?! Like wtf you mean you also have 4 dogs in a TINY ass RV thats stupid. They have money, makes no sense why they cant get a house, or even a 3 bedroom apartment. Like how do the parents even have their "own time" if you know what i mean. 3 of their offspring are literally 5 feet away from them at all times, i just hope its quiet when it happens because hearing your parents do it does fuck you up as a person. I just hope those kids turn out ok in the end, but with how the world is and how stubborn these two seem to be, its not likely.
Have a friend who has a family friend whose child does ‘unschooling’ she did not learn how to read until she was over 10 years old and would show my friends brothers (7-10yo) corn(replace the first letter with p) I have no respect for people who would neglect their child like that.
"We have mental illness struggles, but we are also smarter than you, better than you, raise our kids better than you, know how to educate our kids better than you, live in a better shelter than you, and make more money than you." Gotta love people who start their mental health journey AFTER having 3 kids.
I can’t believe he used an electric bill as an analogy. You don’t have an electric bill ding dong!!
So many more Q’s; where do they go if there’s an argument? Do they have friends and family? Like this is all super cute and wholesome if it was a holiday van but living in with that many ppl is nuts. Like have they even considered a second van and a parent drives each one…for some actual room? I just can’t comprehend
My friends and their 2 kids did van life for almost a decade. This was before social media so it was not for content. Their kids loved it but like I said, they weren't having a camera shoved in their face so I'm sure it's different when the lifestyle is strictly for that reason.
8:12 I wonder what the content within those percentages is and how they’re defined. Like 12 grades worth of education vs the amount you learn walking around with 2 adult idiots, sure, no shit it’s easier to retain 80% of your education when it would only fill a page.
Ha! Yeah that was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard. My brain broke trying to make those stats makes sense. I think you figured it out!
I did have a friend who works schooled for two years ie did school well traveling, difference is it was chosen by the kids and they were enrolled in schools just one year was home schooling out of a camper and the other was schooling in another country for a year. They had there own rooms and all there own stuff and were never filmed but i don’t think even she would have liked to grow up in that environment.
My parents considered homeschooling me for many years, though luckily didn't since I was already struggling socially and school is a great way to get kids together with their peers. Even then, i would have been homeschooled in our house, with a proper program, and not having my entire experience filmed and posted online! And i still would have struggled mentally and socially! These family vloggers and van life influencers need to have some kind of accountability, but they won't so long as the platforms they're on are making money off them...
Traveling back & forth between my divorced parents houses as a kid caused me so much anxiety & stress... I cannot imagine having to live in a van. And then to be exploited for content on top of that??
Gosh. I truly didn’t even believe this couple was in fact THE red white and Bethune I watched years ago. Seems like their mental health may have declined in a pretty delusional way.
I started living in my vehicles bc I couldn’t afford rent, this was 8 years ago. Crazy how different the times are now, it’s popular. At least I never ever want kids though. I rescued a cat and dog along the way and that is the most/closest I’d ever get. I’ve known multiple families who live like this… the kids get lonely(and most of the time they were in buses… not a van) It’s not good for longevity for kids, i believe anyway. There is a reason most ppl quit after 2 years- it can suck always breaking down and being stressed about legalities.
Also PSA to anyone reading this, pls don’t even attempt to make me feel bad for wanting to live this life, it was the best choice for me in the beginning and I fell in love with it. I don’t need a lot. I don’t really care if you think it’s “bad” or not. I love my life and adventures. Also I love this channel. :)
Why would anyone make you feel bad? Your actions only affect yourself and it sounds to me like you are happy.
They were the couple that saw Gabby Petitos van before she was murdered 😢😢😢
If you aren't teaching them anything, and "unschooling" them, then of course it's easy to retain 80%, If they are attending school, and many varied classes, 10-20% of these varied subjects is much more than 80% of nothing specific.
Plus, when they need the information at their fingertips in the future, all they need to do is refresh that learning, they will have a starting point.
On a side note, that guy needs consequences for his ridiculous hair - pure lazy.
I hate these fake quasi-hippie types. They are using this forced positivity and “healing” to mask their selfishness! Everything they say they are doing for their kids is really just stuff that benefits them
Vanlife in general has convinced me (among other things) of the idea that the millennials are just Boomer Hippies 2.0. Right down to the fake spiritualism and affinity for New Age nonsense.
I'm just relieved that a real man is covering this story ♂️
(and my blood relative Herman, no less)
Retaining 80% of walking through a field won't help them get a job
I can't believe these family channels are still unregulated. Like it's one thing to occasionally include your family in your social media posts, but it's another to mine your children's formative years for profit. I remember hearing about one family that posted a video about their daughter's first period and GROWN ADULTS in the comments weighing in on it. It's so troubling.
I was a terrible student, in fact I'm still stuck in my own childhood that I have nothing tangible to offer my child.
What about best friends, sleepovers, a group of peers, a sense of stability, roots and a home town? Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, group sports, choir and band participation, etc?
its so weird to force a lifestyle on your kids where they dont develop stable relationships outside their family. no neighbors, no school, no sports, no extracurricular activities, no organized religion, no nothing. all the people you know are your family or people you know through your family. i cant imagine subjecting your kid to that.
I absolutely despised public schooling, I was bullied and assaulted to the point the police had to step in.
And even then with my horrific experiences. I see the value in public schooling
I can still see the immense value in the other experiences I had. I was taught film photography in school which has become an huge part of my life. I met three amazing administrators and teachers who became mentors to me and helped me grow and learn so much, even about myself.
I find it really sad that these children will never have the opportunity for the positive and wonderful experiences and things that can come along with public schooling, its not always so negative and horrible. Especially when you can change shools or do a different modality of schooling that still interacts with a different people and more people their own age.
Unschooling is just a fancy word for neglect.
Unschooling = neglect. I agree. Even if your family does everything right public schools are great. What if you’re an artist in a sports family? Or a sporty kid in an artsy family? Your family just can’t teach you what they don’t know. And you need peers to play sports!
i like how he immediately caught himself after saying “different ra-“
also, what is this van “light bill”he’s referring to? /j
Damn good catch!
“If i dont pay my light bill they come turn my power off” YOUR KIDS ARE THE ONES PAYING YOUR BILLS NOT YOU
The dad said his lights get shut off while living in a van if he doesn't pay them. I would like to see the light bill for said van.
one of the clips you showed was from mother bus (americanfamilyroadtrip) who is well worth doing a video on. imo they're just as bad, if not worse, than this family.
07:55 haha trust me bro. These percentages are real
It's crazy to me that this is possible and that children services don't intervene. That would not be possible in my country.
I lived in an airstream that was the smallest size with my parents and older brother until I was around 8 or 9 years old and let me tell you it fuckin sucks. It’s not something fun to do!! Sure maybe for a vacation but every day of the year?? I never got to have friends over and had to sleep on the bench in the living dining space. It’s not fun it’s not cute it’s the reality of poverty for many and honestly can become child abuse quickly. Children need privacy and quiet time just like the rest of us! Not to mention there’s no way that the bus can thing is sound proof which is also traumatizing if you get what I’m saying.
I followed them way back in the beginning and then I had to stop. Every single thing in their lives is about Mom. Watch their van tours and bus tours... "My" "mine" " I wanted"... Nothing about what her husband or kids wanted in the bus or van, it's all about her. I simply couldn't stomach her anymore, and I'm only one of thousands who feel the same way. There are literal groups dedicated to hating this woman. (None of which I'm a part of, I don't like her but I don't like bullying either.)
I can’t believe parents would risk the future success of their children on an unproven social experiment. Goodbye much chance of going into any STEM fields for these children.
“My kids can’t sit up in bed but they can stretch their legs to 6”2!!”
thank you uncle herman, another very nice video :)
Hey Unc! Can you do a deep dive into ScentBird?
I grew up pretty impoverished and I had more privacy while sharing a futon mattress with my two sisters and brother than these kids do. Hell I probably had more room to sleep than they do in those coffins since I at least didn’t have a ceiling 12in from my forehead
Not sure what the entitlement age has young people believing yhese days, but kids dont get to "consent" to the way and where they live REGARDLESS, PERIOD. Got a huge wake up call coming to entitled kids and young adults when real life kicks them in their asses. And its going to happen. Smdh.
These kids aren’t gonna be able to support themselves because they don’t have a formal education! I also feel for these kids because do they have any friends? In my opinion this is considered abu$e.
That is not actually unschooling, I was homeschooled off and on throughout elementary school up until 9th grade, my mother tried unschooling briefly and according the the actual community, to unschool is to bring the children to like tons and tons of museums and educational experiences and activities and yes traveling helps that out a lot but in places like California and probably lots of states it is very easy, what they described is not unschooling, it’s neglecting education altogether.
These selfish parents are actually hurting their children. I noticed that they aren't sleeping in a tiny shelf with zero privacy. Shame on them 😕
So I’ve only ever seen the shorts where the RUclipsr is making fun of the vanlife people with a bunch of kids and I thought, because it’s a parody, surely it’s also satire? And to learn that it’s NOT satire. Is… well… frightening.
No. I need to be able to sit upright in bed. I need to be able to easily and efficiently flip my pillow to get to the cool side!
How is UnScH0oLING considered not an abuse by law?
You become problem solvers by solving problems. The point of education isnt just to retain information you may never use in the future, it's to develop the skills required for critical thinking, comprehension, and coping skills needed for growth and life.
This is lazy, selfish and shortsighted parenting. When you have kids, their well-being comes first. They should have van lifed after their youngest finished school 😤
They’re giving 8 passengers vibes. There’s going to be a small group of adults that won’t have the skills for real life. It’s disgusting
Feels like Ruby all over again… 😞
Wait so the kids don’t even do online or homeschool.
The kids are most probably having a great time.
All of these children are going to resent their parents later in life.
I’d love to see them drive through the hood. They’ll get A LOT of real world experience.
This is what happens when mom and dad don't wanna work and you're just along for the ride. Disgusting
Real world learning? You teaching them to read? You need that..what about basic math? For financial security? Taxes?..hahaha ok
sorry if I got a different upbringing but...in asia I know it's a different culture....also specially I lived around near villages where farms, lakes and mountain resides...children from age to 10 already started working on chores such as simple washing dishes, cooking, chopping wood and tending to the farm etc...I used to hate it but now that I'm an adult I found it easier to live and do this chores like it's a normal thing we usually do. As I noticed people from the western society that I've lived and worked with at age 16 to 20+ (high school to uni/college) don't even know how to take care of themselves.
I agree to the point where from this context they are taught life skills but they should also have access to proper education for opening new opportunities that they may want to do in the future.
EDIT: Also I don't support to this lifestyle, I'm only referring to teaching kids basic life skills.
She sounds like Ruby Frankie 😮😮
We miss you uncle
Hey uncle herman, I think your videos are really cool and well made and I think of you as someone trustworthy and not at all in the same boat as some other RUclips channels that cover the same topics as you, who I'd regard as drama encouraging and even fearmongering and just not professional or trustworthy "tea channels". So I hope this comes across in the right way, I don't want to hate or be overly critical - I have you in high regard - but I'm not really sure what the part about the anonymous reddit post added to the video except speculation. I'm sure no anonymous comment on reddit from a maybe-van-life-child is needed to illustrate how horrible their situation is, it just came across as a bit of a reach that is not needed imo.
I think that it is probably in response to the Ruby Franke situation. Everyone wanted to reserve judgement, & not jump to conclusions 🙄😒 when there was very obvious abuse happening. The children tried to reach out when anonymously & did when they left as well. When they left they were adults. But yeah- this is ridiculous. What is wrong with your country? Americans love abusing kids aye? 😂 Sexualising, demonising, imprisoning, financially exploiting & abusing kids... so wild 😂
I think the reason the anon post was mentioned is bc that was a huge catalyst for people realizing that these van life kids are in as bad, if not worse, of a situation than regular family vlogger children. It’s the internet, so twitter def took off with the mystery of who it was and caught this whole topic attention
I guess you haven't heard the drama with scent bird.... Might want to do a little research and choose your sponsors more carefully. 😅
I'm 40 and was "unschooled". Cannot possibly discourage this enough unless there's something like a Sudbury school involved.
This is social isolation. These parents are selfish and want a nomadic life over giving their kids access to trained educators and a balanced education and stability.
Of course, unschooling can be done well when you, the parent, help your child to engage their interests.
Parents like this, in my experience, want an excuse to simply dump the responsibility of their kids education ON the children themselves. It's educational neglect and it's abuse. We NEED homeschool oversight in the US.
They can't live a peaceful life offline, if they did that the parents would have to get real jobs and couldn't travel all over the country, dragging their kids behind.
Don't get me wrong, there are quite a few families doing this very well- this family just isn't one of them. Don't make a video about how horrific social media is and how damaging it is to your psyche while you're posting your family on social media 24/7. These people are just completely clueless and have absolutely no idea the damage they're doing to those kids. Why don't Mom and Dad sleep in the bunks and let the kids take turns in the bedroom?
this truly looks like my worst nightmare
You know what's really effective for instilling the idea of responsibility and consequences in kids? School. They have to study and work hard for grades. They may not retain every piece of knowledge, but they learn how to learn.
No, they learn how to test well and how to obey orders
@@drewthedweeeb you do better on tests when you study and practice. That's being responsible for learning the material. Choosing whether to read and follow directions, being kind or mean to classmates, working on assignments or blowing them off... Those choices all have consequences very analogous to life as an adult.
So in certain aspects I can understand where he is coming from but it’s not genuine coming from him. To genuinely want to educate your kids and unschool, fine. But you do it for views. For the money. My neighbor does unschooling with her children. I do cyber school for mine. Even if you homeschool or “unschool”, in the state of PA, you still have to do the PA testing and turn it in. You also have to register to do at home education.They have to meet certain criteria. So essentially that can be problematic and probably why they move around so much.
When I was a kid, every summer was spent in a camper traveling around and camping. June to August. I loved it. Difference is, it was a choice for me and it was only during summer break. We also would have friends and family who would travel around with us or meet up at some point in the summer but there was always at least 12 of us. All my cousins and friends. It was carefree.It was a choice. I didn’t have to go if I didn’t want to or if I wanted to go home sooner, no biggie
U sound like the right opinion and j Aubrey at the same time???
Scent bird is run by a matrix cultist lol
Bad in the day, these people would have been called Gypsies. I knew a few growing up. Generally they are "home" schooled, meaning they arent schooled at all and the kids dont even attempt to make friends since they always move around. They dont have social skills so they bounce between hostility and awkward. I feel like this is SO SO SO MUCH worst than ive ever seen...
G*psy is a slur. Also, they live that lifestyle as a result of oppression and discrimination.
The G word is a slur. Romani and Irish traveller communities are ethnicities and are currently somewhat nomadic for part of the year.
Mfs ain’t never watch Steven Universe Future🙄
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Unschooling is actually a good practice, it's about working with how they learn rather than a strict methodology.
But these people... clearly don't understand what that actually is.
Torture is actually a good practice, it's about working with the individual person and what hurts them most so you actually don't have to physically cripple someone to torture them into doing whatever you want 😊 that's how you sound. Send your kids to school if you're not hiding severe abuse. Prove you're not r4ping them before you recommend unschooling
Maybe if schools actually did teach useful subjects pertinent to modern life then it would be more of a challenge for idiots like these two to claim they were better off in a van, but I've seen the state of the American school system and that's almost as abusive to a child's upbringing as no education at all in some extreme cases.
School should be about getting kids ready for adult life not a series of memorisation tests for subjects that most folk don't even use in daily life.
Lol the irony in this video people just want to complain. I agree its not an ideal situation for kids but they have a roof over their head and are probably getting fed. Thats more then you can say for manh kids. They dont go to school well most kids dont want to go to school and when they do they hate it. Mlst kids would much rather be in the situation of these kids. My point being that so long as they are being taken care of leave it alone. They could be in much worse conditions ffs
I mean to be fair having kids is selfish period not just in this situation 🤷🏻♀️ People have kids when they want, name the kids what they want, raise them how they want, etc without any say so and consent from the kid forcing life into us, molding and shaping us into what they want, etc. Ain't defending them by a long shot they're pieces of shit without a doubt but what they're doing is just a more crazy version of what all parents do IMO. Also side note they kinda look like that couple who spotted Brian Laundry's white van (the piece of shit who sadly murdered Gabby P) 🤔
The Romani gypsy people have living this lifestyle for centuries and still do. Just because you have better material things does not make you a better parent. And no kid has a choice in their lifestyle. Giving your kid social media is way worse then making them sleep in a bunk.
Romani people have lived this lifestyle *due to active oppression.* Not by choice!
hey! not sure if you're romani but that other term you used is a slur! I'm sorry if you are romani and can reclaim it but i thought it important to note ^^
Van life 100% has its problem, in fact i’d say it existing is a problem, but a lot of these takes i’m seeing here, in the video and comments, and elsewhere just seem to be classic rightwing anti-natalist poor shaming. While there is a more complex dynamic to van life, we saw all these critiques with campervanning in the 70’s US, caravanning in 50-60’s UK, and even back to hoovervilles and legit horse drawn carriage encampments. It’s great to call out and name and showcase and discuss the effects of the social problems, but we HAVE to attribute them to the problem, not the victims. This social class of sorta middle class to rover has existed for a very long time and will likely exist for a long time more. We can shame and blame all the parents we want, it won’t change the existence of the class, the existence of the problem. But what it does change is the acceptance of shaming poor/at risk/class shifted folks for having children and putting the blame for a child’s socioeconomic position squarely on the shoulders of the parents- a classic rightwing tactic.
Is "a walk-in shower" not redundant?
they get the privilege of a 'walk-in shower' as opposed to a hosepipe 🫠
I think that Reddit comment was from a child from those van lifers who were living in an RV with their three kids, that just moved into a house cos the parents are getting divorced.
Cos the older child stopped being in their content.
I recently saw a commentary video about them.