I used to live in an RV full time with my family. We never traveled because we never had money because my parents don't work. We lived off of food stamps and child support. The RV was so small. I slept on a couch, my stepbrother slept on a couch, and my little brother slept on the cold hard wood floor. We had no space, no privacy, while my parents had a door, a big ass king sized bed and their own room. It was miserable living with 4 other people in a place that was that small. I recently turned 18 2 months ago and I moved out 2 days after i turned 18. It was the best day of my life. I live with my boyfriend now and i finally have my own space, a comfortable bed, and we don't live off of food stamps.
Wow way to judge the people that paid for you for 18 years and did the best they could. I'm sure that you in all your 18 yr old wisdom could tell them how to do it better. And way to shame people who need a little help due to under employment or an emergency!!
@@Ezralovessaul for your information, my parents were not the best parents. I was forced to do everything in that RV while my parents didnt do anything but sit on their ass all day. My parents do not work. And they still have 2 kids to care for. I did not get a childhood because I was busy trying to be the 2nd parent to my siblings, I was busy trying to push myself through high school all while trying to juggle with my own mental health. So instead of judging and saying stuff before you think, kindly shut up.
And I hate to tell you..MANY PARENTS ARE WORSE!! if your biggest complaint is how you helped out at home and didn't have money well I'll be the first to tell you...there are people who are beaten, molested, starved...but your generation is very materialistic so it's not a shock
Just to make this Clear: In Germany, Homeschooling is generally not a concept. You are required by law to send your Kids to School and support them doing that or the Goverment will punish you if not straight up taking you Kids away. She would also be Financially Supported if she is a German and could easily live in an Apartment with her Kids having their own Room. In case she is German it sounds more like Child Abuse and avoiding the German Youth welfare Office.
She is German yeah and totally. She could have a welfare supported house and get money for the kids. They don’t have to travel full-time. Makes no sense why she does this.
So the government take your kids off you if you don't send them to school, where they're being brainwashed and having stupid agendas shoved down their throat! 😬 That's horrible!
@@Sefyr- There are specific exceptions but i highly doubt that you just casually use § 35 to get your kids out of school duty. I just assume that your situation was not just because your Parents dont like public schools and when you turned 6 they said fuck it lets live in an RV.
When I was a child I would have been very happy to eat nothing but candy and potato chips all day. But my mother did not let me because she knew better! It’s a parents job to do what’s best for their children not just what makes them happy
Yes. And in addition to that, my parents, also somehow managed, to let myself choose how much, when I want to eat sweets, and somehow i didn’t abused it, because, I had alotbif freedom(not in a bad way, but rather in anyway, where, I could do my own choices, which my partners supported actively, they let me make mistakes, but helped me stand up again)(really a lot) and purely based on trust. So this lead to a very strong trust bond, and this made us somehow really close, I don’t know how they did that. When I saw my friends, they asked if they could have sweets, parents said no. I (mostly) didn’t have to ask, (but often did that in my own will). And my parents also sind not forced me to do things I don’t like, didn’t forced me to eat things I don’t like, but made me so I would try things and then decide if I like them or not. And there were also no spereate foods. If I wanted pizza (sometimes, and like my parents were not against it,), everybody had pizza, but also, if they clocked fish, then everyone had fish, and if someone didn’t liked it (never tried, just preference) then they would find a solution, The point I try to make here, is to not over control kids, show them what trust means, show them what it means NOT having trust, (which bís importent to learn). And yes, quilt tripping is not a. Very nice way, but it makes someone clear on what another person reales like about something without telling them no. And doing this correctly, you could even allow your kids/teens to go out at night, without giving them a time to go back, and they will know on their own, when they should come home (of course, they first need to be told what’s ok and what’s not in some way), and they do. And yes, maybe some kids this won’t work, but, in my opinion these are special occasions. And also if the kid wants to jump from the tree then let them. If they break their leg, not good, but they gain trust in themselves, and learn to Jude. If the parent would say don’t jump, (ok if this is a 20 m high tree I get it ), the kids won’t understand why. And yes it will hurt, and yes they will maybe be mad, but next time, they will not jump and maybe not climb high. And also learn that Avery thing they do will have consequences, which a lot of adults don’t even know, because they don’t had a chance to learn it.
As someone whose parents made me keep my bedroom door open 24/7, I HATED that part. Privacy is important! And yes, the kids will “experiment” curtain or no curtain(you just get good at being silent)!😉
So…they’re one of “van lifers” who are truly homeless and don’t have any remote jobs etc… they’re just out there winging it and putting their children through hell 🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@shirashiraonthewall because then they'll have to work to pay for the house, that's why. There are so many parents/ adults running away from work in Europe it's crazy! Because the government is allowing and supporting them trough social and child support money that they get from the working class as taxes. It's disgusting!
@@biancaman4930 No, it is nice. First of all there aren't "so many" who do this. Second, it is good that there is a safety net for the kids. I like it that I live in a country for the people and not for the companies like the USA.
@@biancaman4930 No they do not have to pay for anything, if you are jobless in germany, the state ensures that you have enough to survive. Not to lavish in luxury of course, but rent is paid, utilities are paid and sometimes they even hand out food-cards instead of money, to make sure people actually buy food with the money.
I travelled full time with my mum from the age of 7 to 13. It was just us 2 but I still hated it. Yes, I saw a lot of places and experienced a lot of things, and there were good moments, but I still hated it. I literally can't even imagine if I had a sibling, LET ALONE TEN OF THEM. I would probably just run away, for real. I wasn't allowed internet or a phone and we never stayed anywhere any longer than a few weeks at most which meant if I did make friends, I wouldn't have them for long. It was lonely and boring and alienating and I would NOT recommend this life to anyone for more than just the occasional road trip. It f**ked up my social development so badly that when I was eventually put in school I developed clinical depression, anxiety, an eating disorder, and behavioural issues (which I luckily grew out of). DO NOT DO THIS TO YOUR KIDS.
My biggest concern was not only her lack of concern over privacy, but the fact she actually expects if not encourages her children to "explore their bodies" while she and her partners what? Watch? These poor kids are not safe, and sure as hell can't defend themselves.
As I understood, she just expects them.. not to do that *because* there is so little privacy. So she expects them to just.. never experiment ever?? Learn their ways and go outside for it?? Like what the hell
As a German we don‘t claim her 😅. I know that my niece and nephew were both given multiple antibiotics and injections of different medication when they were born and that was in Germany
@@tinameiling3646She talked about eye drops and I know that in many countries like the us after babies are born they put eye drops into the eyes. Those are antibiotics to prevent eye infections from STIs the mother might have. They do this just in case which actually hurts the baby when they are not necessary. Their immune system is super fragile and those eye drops are strong. That said, she picked up a junkie from the streets and got pregnant, the eye drops might be useful…
@@vivieneckert1627 in Germany it's normal to test for the common STDs and STIs and with a small charge for HIV during third trimester. So to not overmedicate a newborn All paid by healthcare - the small charge (not sure. Was long ago) is around 20 euros or Something???
As a homeschooled person, "they learn by themselves I don't have to do anything" IS A RED FLAG AF. In my country homeschooling is just going to school that doesn't force a schedule on you, so each student is still a couple of minutes away from talking with a teacher if they need to, and many of us use that a lot! I have some sort of interaction with our teachers almost every day, sometimes I come to listen to some online classes, sometimes I make sure I know what I can do for my exams (we have written and oral, oral exams are a bit more complicated and many of us do projects, but we need to know if they're fine for the subject) , sometimes I go into some online discussion organised by the school (for example we have classes where the teacher just throws a topic and we are supposed to speak it through in another language! Or sometimes we play games in this other language, it's very fun and people are great). We also can get ourselves a call with a psychologist, which, in this country, is amazing, because we don't have a right to go to doctors without parent's permission, but here we control what classes we take and what online meetings we go to. Being homeschooled without all that support sounds like a nightmare. Humans learn through play, experiences, interactions with people. While I don't think public schools do that well, in our school we are considered equals to our teachers and speaking with them is great. It really encourages to speak up and actively learn and get curious. I think I'm much braver than I was when I was in public school. Education is the parent's duty, in public school it's already a red flag when somebody thinks their child's education is not their business, but in homeschool? That's a recipe for failure.
@@kurbukurbu I'm in Poland. While I mostly stay to onilne interactions as I live in a place away from anyone (which is no change from public school, I was a bit of an outcast and I'm an hour away from a city), the school organizes meetings in many cities in the country and has at least one building that I know on where there are everyday normal classes. We have a mobile app dedicated for meetings, and we're encouraged to create our own, so this is very easy to meet people from school. I usually just take care of my contacts on my own and meet people my age that don't go to the same school as I do, for example by volunteering in a shelter. I get e-mails from school about new meetings at least... once a month? once two months? And in one message there are multiple dates and places. I've been on a picnic organized by the school and it was very fun. There were some places for DIY, cakes, different attractions. It's very easy to find people to talk with there :)
Oo i am from Poland! Actually School in Poland are sometimes have really bad education system, i am In Social school and i need to tell that it's not as good as imagined but it's better than public, but of course one of our biggest problems is, Homophobia, Transphobia, and really bad vision about mental disorders like ADHD and other. And to be honest, if i could, i would change to homeschool, and yeah I know that sometimes is not that great, i know i could change schools but first i get used to this school and after those years i stand it and second i am scared of abonding my Best friend because they are actually only person that i trust the most (Parents not included lol) I have an anxiety disorder that makes me worry about specific things more than others, and thats really annoying, but i really can't do anything about it, that's why I am worring about my relationships *to much.*
@@SILLYGOOBSTER-LOLXDD Yeah, the system is really bad, but there are schools that don't go with the Polish system (check Budząca się Szkoła, they've got a map of those!). I also totally get what you're talking about, I've ADHD and autism and anxiety and I never got any help. A lot depends on the school you go to. I went to a liceum that was really accepting, but I know I was lucky there. Still, I went to Chmura and I feel better here. Also going homeschooled when you can't trust your parents... It probably would be impossible in any way. It's a scary and big decision overall, it helps a bit to realize school is not that big of a deal, you can't be lawfully discriminated because of being homeschooled, the grades don't matter to anybody after it... but parents sometimes make that very hard. The school I was in before homeschooling allows me to visit! So I am able to see my old classmates. I don't know if other schools would allow that tho... Good luck to you, going to school in Poland is not easy. They expect so much and give nothing back. (also your English is not bad, it's easy to understand from context even if there are mistakes, and in the real world that's all that matters)
I always find people saying about their kids like "but they’re happy so no issue" really really grave and bad, kids are happy, they are not equiped to understand what life is, they feel good in the moment. When I was 5yo my dad was at that time untreated bipolar and deeply alcoholic, my parents store went bankrupt and they were left with nothing at all but I as a 5 yo was happy as hell, it’s years later I saw the issues and the effects of that and it’s not the job of kids to justify and legitimate the issues of their parents even more when they can be avoided by simply not living in a car Great vid too !!!
EXACTLY THE SAME! I appreciate her listening to her kids, but honestly they don’t know the half of it. They don’t understand why school is important. They don’t understand why privacy is important. You can’t just let kids do whatever they want. I DEFINITELY would have loved to be homeschooled and to travel full time when I was a kid, but now that I’m older, I’m glad that I wasn’t lol
Its the same as when america was segregated. You cant have dreads if your skin color is white. You cant sit in the front of the bus if your skin color is black
"they wanted to inject her a million things like we don't do that in Germany we don't inject a million things" The wording makes it seem, that Germany didn't inject AS much as Spain, though I think she's against that too.
id just like to say as someone who lived like this for a huge part of my childhood: its horrible. i lived in a shelf made for storage and the lil curtain i had was a cut shower curtain. i had a metal dora box and if my toys didnt fit i didnt keep them. we werent filmed, but it was still by choice. my parents choice. it is absolutely impossible to develop as a teenager and young adult when your only privacy is the 8x6 bathroom. no typo. i still struggle alot with privacy now that i live in a house with a close friend. i have awful anxiety when my friend goes in my room or touches my things. id just like to let yall know that its worse than they show. have a blessed day ❤ edit: i forgot to mention that i was diagnosed with autism when i was little. living in a rolling circus didnt help.
Yeah, as a kid who's been homeschooled through various different courses, it really sucks, especially when you vocally tell them you want to go back to public school and they just try to tell you about all the drugs, all the kids getting beat up, etc. They terrified me out of going back to public school and I was homeschooled from halfway through 2nd grade to 8th grade, then thrown around a couple homeschool co-ops through highschool. One year of highschool left, which will probably be at the community college. I've managed to keep myself mentally together in one piece, despite her actively opposing any sort of therapy or treatment options. And yet she wonders why I want to go across the Atlantic to the Netherlands for college. Nothing she's doing is illegal, but it adds up.
Awwwww I’m so sorry you are going through all that 😭 they say it’s for your protection but all it is, is sheltering you from the real work 🫣 I hope you find solace in collage. Just don’t go too hard with the illegal substances 😇
I've gone through public school, and it isn't bad at all. Honestly, the worst that could happen is someone gets in a little tussle with someone else 😑 if your smart and avoid it like me, your fine. And the blah blah about drvgs and stuff didn't occur at any of my schools.
As a homeschooled kiddo, the parents telling you about the druggies and the things that go on in the bathroom, and the bullies are so real 😭 I’m fortunate enough to have good doctors, and I’m currently having counseling/ therapy to keep my mental health in check. I’m also fortunate to have parents that listen to my complaints about homeschooling. I’m glad I’m homeschooling during this time, but I’m also glad to go back to public school in around a year or two. I’m so sorry for everything you’ve gone through, and what you’re going through. I haven’t been homeschooled my whole life, so I have it easy compared to you. I hope your future becomes SO much better! I pray life will treat you so much better as it comes along. It’s a brave thing to speak out about your homeschooling experience.
Husband was homeschooled, I went to public. He loved it because he was doing terrible in a structured curriculum. He needed more time and more ability to move his body. I loved going to public school for a place with structure and places to have quiet thoughts. We're on the fence with our kids. I don't want to lose the social connections of public. He doesn't want the rigidity and allows us the freedom to study at our child's pace.
I wanna know so much more about the homeless boyfriend. Where did he come from? Why did she decide to let him shack up? Most importantly, what do the kids think?!?
My issue with her "homeschooling," is that it comes across as lazy. In the earlier 2000s, there was a father and daughter living in a lean to in a protected forest in Oregon. He homeschooled his daughter using a set World Book Encyclopedias, but because the father was actively teaching his kid, the girl was described as being well spoken and even a little a head of her peers academically. This chick has an "app" teaching her kids and it seems to be the only form of education, besides meeting (unvetted and potentially dangerous) new people & being a constant tourist. She doesn't give a real schedule about doing reading, writing and arithmetic, having her kids do reports about cultural or historical aspects of whatever place they are in or learning new languages. The "app" is deciding her kids' education. She is putting in as much or even less work than suburban moms that send their kids to school and go to work. I feel sorry for the rest of the family. I wouldn't be surprised if the ex husband would have loved to take the kids he shares with this narcissist and let her bum around with her hobo boyfriend, but now she has a baby with the hobo, the other kids really don't want to be separated from the sibling and the dad either has to tagalog or rarely see his kids.
I was homeschooled by my mother for a few years, they bought all the workbooks to our chosen curriculum. After returning to public school, I was academically ahead too, and my social skills weren't impacted because I participated in sports etc. So yeah, homeschooling is not as bad as some make it out to be, it just depends on the parent and their intentions.
I am currently a 12 year old girl who by homeschooling is a freshman. Homeschooling is sometimes better especially when it comes to the American public school system.
I was actually homeschooled and i turned out fine ( im going to college at 16 )BUT MY MOM WAS SMART AND TEACHED OTHER KIDS ,HOMESCHOOLING IS NOT LETTING KIDS DO WORK BY THEMSELVES ITS ABOUT TEACHING THEM !
12:00 As a note, you are a Spaniard by virtue of being born in Spain regardless of your parents' country of origin, and you can only lose Spanish nationality if you are of legal age and request it by yourself (parents have no authority in this regard). School enrolling is compulsory for all Spanish citizens and homeschooling is illegal here (education legislation is straightforward, no loopholes to be exploited); sooo I really hope they enroll their little child in a real school when the child is of age because if not, one fine day they may end up surrounded by Europol agents themselves. I hope all their children get an honest and stable education and life, instead of being TikTok cannon fodder. It must be horrible to grow up in such an environment...
That is nice, so then they will be on the run from the german gouvernment because of the two older children and from the spanish gouvernment because of the youngest? Unfortunally, it will take additional 6 years till that point.
I've never lived in a van, but I grew up in a household with major substance abuse issues and general mental illness. My mum barely took care of me BUT she still made sure I got a proper EDUCATION and had at least some level of PRIVACY. Sadly these parents don't even seem to consider that for their kids :(
As a child who begged to be homeschooled bc of bullying and As a mommy who is homeschooling, my kids come first. School is a huge deal in our family. My daughter is two and knows how to count to ten, her abcs, animals noises, animals, she sings, signs, talks in full sentences. We also get out of the house every day for child intercation. Wheter that be the park, library or children's museum. I also made sure to have lots of mommy friends that have kiddos my kids age. Homeschooling isnt always abuse, its how you homeschool.
I so agree! I think regular school is horrible. The idea is for kids to learn so they can have jobs, learn life, and social skills, and all that is great, but the execution is terrible. They overwork them to the point of mental abuse, and when the other kids say or do something instead of the teachers fixing it so it doesn't happen again, they don't even bother. It causes so many issues. I think homeschooling is great because they can learn everything without being overworked, and then as long as they do other activities, they get all of the social and life skills!
As a teacher in Germany who taught with an app during the pandemic, having the children doing those tasks on the app only is not sufficient. These apps are mainly just multiple choice tasks, no critical thinking and no expressing of one's own opinion. It's fine AS AN ADDITION but not instead of school. And of course everything you mentioned about social skills. They could get a diploma if they write an exam at a public school but if they are only being taught by an app they will have no idea how those tests are structured and what is required.
As a kid who’s being homeschooled, I don’t personally call myself weird but I think that’s because I’ve been to so many schools (8) and I’ve always had a bad experience with them so I’ve just decided to do homeschooling and now I learn marine biology in my bedroom
@@shirashiraonthewall hello Shira yes that is true also thank you for replying to my comment. This is the first time a person with over 100,000 followers on TH-cam has replied to me ❤❤❤
My son is the same way, he went to 6 different schools trying to find the best one had issues and had experiences with every school, after we moved he begged me to home school him, and he is and has been for two years now he loves it he's in higher subjects then just his regular grade, he gets breaks when he needs it.. anyways he loves it, and we really do sit down and do home work together, he's doing 5th grade work and only in 3rd grade. Homeschooling can be great if it's done right
If they were trying to give the baby injections/antibiotics don't you think that might be because something went wrong during birth😭or maybe it's to protect the kid from future health issues? Also I refuse to believe the hospital called the police because she denied them of injection her child with "a million things" ... I bet she was doing something more
I am currently being homeschooled, it has been a wonderful experience but only when done right. I’m homeschooled in an environment that is similar to a classroom, I have different subjects to study friends to play with people to talk to and a place to read and complete tasks. That isn’t homeschooling that is just giving your kid a worksheet every week or so, that’s not an education. Edit: I also went to school for a long time and then we made the decision to homeschool.
In Germany, newborns also get vaccinations. And that's been the case for a while. In my vaccination certificate there are 3 vaccinations entered in 1999, so it is absolute nonsense to claim that it is different in Germany than in Spain. XD
Yeah, this woman is a big time liar. If she isn't forced to do anything, then why did she run from Germany and isn't going back? Oh right! Because of vaccinations, school and who knows what other things she has done, she might be wanted for ...
I was on a boat which is pretty similar to van-life no space, unstable friends, bad education, and unsafe shit like that. I was 9 when I moved on I am now 14 moving off when I returned to where I am from I had no friends did not know how tf to act because you know. It's just fucking ruined my life in general.
I believe in you, things will definitely get better! ❤ Idk if this helps but most teens from a 'normal' upbringing are socially awkward too, so don't be hard on yourself 😊
“I’m sorry you don’t have as close a relationship with your family as I do to live in a camper together!” Excuse you, lady! I have excellent relationships with my parents and siblings and we DID live in a camper for a summer. You wanna know what it was like? It was damn close to hell! Two working adults (my dad as a mechanical engineer in an office and my mum as a real estate agent at the time), my brother was 20 and trying to figure out how to get to his university classes regularly, my sister was 16 and was graduating high school, and I was 11 and struggling with middle school because my learning disabilities were not identified yet. We needed to live in a camper for a summer because we were moving to another city and the closing dates of our old house and the new house didn’t line up all that well, so we were technically homeless for 147 days. By the end, we were at each other’s throats and by the time we made it to the new house we immediately picked our room and took a nap, not caring our beds weren’t delivered from storage yet.
@@shirashiraonthewall Oh, don't worry! All five of us look back at that and collectively agree it sucked but was necessary. We are still all close knit.
The chances of her kids being harmed go up exponentially when she is inviting a stranger into her "home". That is just another notch on her belt of irresponsible parenting choices. She doesn't deserve to parent them.
I believe she might have said bottles. In Germany and many other euro countries we have Pfand. So a little extra fee you pay for your bottles ~25-50 cent that you get back when you return the bottles to a store. Many people still throw their bottles into the trash so many poor people go and rummage through the trash to collect those bottles and cash them in. In cities It’s common to place your Pfand bottles next to the trashcan instead of throwing them in so they don’t have to endanger and humiliate themselves reaching into the trash
Gosh I hope so. Because the alternative slang defintion I know would mean she just admitted to using or selling (possibly legal, depends on where you are) drugs.
I’m homeschooled and had higher SAT scores than my valedictorian though… it’s very effective for a lot of people who don’t like school when you have an active caring parent teaching you.
As a kid whose mom is an influencer, it’s already hard to have all of you’re achievements, failure’s and life moments onlilne. All though I do live in a normal house and I have my own room and my face is never posted online, I do still feel like I have less privacy and control over what ppl know about me. Because I don’t have my face all over the internet only my best friend knows about me being on social media. I can’t imagine how it is for those kids to be plastered all over the internet and after having that privacy taken away, they have to live in an place where you have no room for privacy and being logged around the country and having no irl friends to vent to and have no social interaction with ppl your own age. I could not imagine that, because every time I feel that I don’t have any privacy I just sit in my own room doing anything I want, like, playing loud music, watching TH-cam videos, sleeping, working out, etc.
My mother invited a homeless junkie to live with her, she thought she could help and change him, she died 4 months later of a drug overdose, I'm not saying don't help people, but im saying know who it is you're helping
im homeschooled and i'm not weird :( i'm going to college at 16 and getting a bachelors in engineering at 20. being homeschooled helps get you a 4.0 gpa. but yes it is in some states illegal. but it does hurt when people call us stupid or weird.
This is why protection is important... Why vanlifers conceive in the first place when they can't even afford their own child's expense, basic public schooling & "privacy blah blah blah" ???
maybe doing bubbles for kids in the parks (some hippies do that here, they make demostration and then sell the experience to the kids... or painting to....
So much to criticize, and you choose *check notes* their clothes? "Like normal people" :D. I don't support fully what they do, especially how they do it, but just rambling about a social norm that doesn't influence anything is just sad.
@@strawberrymilk9767 Strawman much? Where did anyone say "everywhere" or how do you know they're going "everywhere" naked? Is "normal" even something logical, beneficial, that it is worth striving for? Apart from that, that highly dependent on who you ask, for the most Europeans- yes (full)nudity is normal and to be expected. Especially if its hot or near water. I haven't really watched her outfits because i don't care, but yes- going half naked can be normal in a lot of places.
I know plenty of people who were home school but they were part of athletic programs or dance programs and even went to top universities. So they still had those social connections with friends without being online. I roll my eyes these days when people use homeschooling to do free vacations
Therapists will be having field trips with those children as their patients... if, hopefully, those kids manage to get the therapy they need. The scariest part, to me, was that the mother thinks the kids are happy because they tell her they are happy. Among all the things you said, a lot of times kids learn to shut up and be quiet lest they make their parents angry and/or sad. The mother doesn't seem to realize that, and she doesn't seem like the kind of person who will encourage emotional honesty and openness to her kids. "My child is fine!" Your child is learning about life through an ipad and doesn't have real friends. They're not kids, they're social experiments.
That’s so true actually I didn’t even think about that lol I don’t even tell my parents how I feel EVER because they make it a big deal if I’m ever sad
sometimes i wonder why van life families can’t just rent a house in the school year and live in a van in the summer. It would make so much sense too, they could get a remote job and their kids could still keep friends
I can’t believe we are calling RV’s, busses and trailers “vans” but anyways-this is what we did. My kids travel a lot and so get burnt out eventually, but also public school is its own drain and I could barely get my kids to the end of the month of public school before we left on our last extended trip. They returned just before the end of the school year and got to reconnect socially, academically they did very well. We homeschooled for 3 months to travel many states (real school was 6 months and we do study during the summer to stay ahead). During the summer we only take brief local trips because kids have soccer, camps, grandparent trips plus we love it here in the summer.
I want to point out that the power imbalance between the kid and the parent has a big role to play. Even if she does talk to her kids, they might be saying yes to make her happy and not complain. My family had to move a lot because of homelessness, and by the time they were simply moving for no reason, I just accepted it because that's how it had always been. It wasn't until I became an adult that I started to resent my parents for breaking so many promises about my stability. And yeah, maybe they like it, but you are locking them into the influencer lifestyle which is not for everybody. They need an education so they have something to fall back on, and they won't be able to live later on if they do decide they want to be a part of society again.
so in 2020 my dad had to travel for work and would be away for months as he was filling in for a guy who couldnt come there due to the travel laws between countrys. we got an RV and me, my parents and 2 younger sibs went tow here my dad was working, it was originally only supposed to be a month or two but turned to 8 months as the travel bans never lifted for a long while, so at first it was more of a temp set up but it evolved into a actual living space. i mean i was awkwardly in a bunk but otherwise everyone had their own space. im now moved out into my own RV and my parents and younger sibs are still in the original RV but heres the thing, my siblings arent sleeping on the floor or only have a certain. they have full on rooms. 4 walls. twin mattresses and desks. they are home schooled but they attend this like homeschool co-op thats basically school except run by homeschool parents who actually want to teach and they teach actual things they will need in the future and not just the dumb shit schools shove into their brains or try to make them fit into a mold. they have friends, social lives, privacy and are happy. my parents are looking into getting a house around here but first need to get stuff in order and find a home thats actually in the price range. so like RV life can be done right but most of these RV life family vloggers are doing it all wrong. they have no respect for their kids and their privacy or feelings. they shove them into small spaces, shove a camera in their faces and show the world the most embarassing, personal and private things for millions to see, they starve their kids of actual social lives and expose their children to social media which is not good for them at all. these parents absolutely suck and seem to view their kids more like view magnets then actual people with lives, feelings and rights. they parent poorly and then call anyone pointing out the issues as haters and just ignore the red flags of their kids not being okay! it pisses me off! RV living can be done right but they are doing it so unbelievably poorly that it makes it seem like anyone who chooses the home school RV life are psycho losers who have no concern for their kids
5:31 too be fair people do that when they ascribe things to “Black culture” because it's not monolithic. But also calling Nadine's hair "style" locs is an offence to all cultures
Not the same thing at all. The reason for "black culture", I'm talking specifically in the US, came out of many African-Americans being unable to trace their lineage back to a specific country. The pan-african flag also represents that. It's a privilege to know where your ancestors come from.
@@MelxncholyMermxid I understand that for a specifically US or any other country or region were people of African descent were taken forcibly, I simply meant there's many expressions and cultures of black people
I used to live in a very small camper because my parents had bought some land and were planning to build. They had built a small bunk bed that I barely fit on (I was tall as a kid) I had the top bunk and it was always so hot. My brother got the bottom. We didn’t even have curtains or privacy. You would walk in the door, see a couch, turn to your right, see a tiny tv, turn to your left, see a very small kitchen that breaks worked (the floor was also sinking in along with the ceiling) and then you would see the bunk bed. If you walked into the hall you would go through a doorway, see a tiny bathroom with a shower and trailer along with a sink. You would then go through another door and would be met with a queen sized bed, huge tv, a huge closet, and tons of storage. That was my parents room. I was so miserable during those 3 years of my life that it wasn’t even funny. I feel so bad for these children that had to go through that but with worse conditions. At least I went to public school. (Sorry this is so long)
Given that a lot can fall under the umbrella term of homeschooling, it can very well be child neglect at times because those who don't properly teach their kids deny them a proper education as well as social skills and good job chances later on in life
I (like most kids) was online homeschooled in 2020 and I did online in 2021 in highschool. It’s not only harder it’s so isolating. I have siblings but being stuck with just your siblings is bad, and damaging to sibling relationships. Being stuck more together is how you get heavy resentment.
When our daughter was 1 my husband got a job where he traveled for up to 10 months out of the year. It was very hard for our little family and when she turned three we made the decision to travel for a year with him before she would inevitably have to start school. ( I’d never be brave enough for homeschool) It was an incredible experience. One that I hold even more dear bc 6 months into our travel we found out I was pregnant with twins! I cherished every single second experiencing new places and making memories with baby girl before we became a family of 5! With that said. 1. We traveled and stayed in suites or extended stay hotels. 2. We never ever thought long term this would be a way of life for our children as roots and connections are so important for healthy children. Thankfully 2 months after our twin girls arrived my husband took a position that didn’t involve travel! I feel so incredibly sad for these children. You can certainly travel and have roots. Living out of a glorified car with older children should be classified as abuse.
Just fyi you can definitely learn social skills on the road, the kids just need to meet up with other children, there’s special online communities for that. I don’t know if this particular family does it, just pointing out that if they do actually care, they can easily set up playdates and group study sessions for the kids to help them integrate with other children their age. I don’t think social skills are an issue if properly taken care of, if anything I’d worry about the children’s emotional state instead, due to the lack of permanent relationships with anyone outside of their family. If their family is constantly traveling then at best they’ll have online friendships and friends they meet up with a few times a year, and I’d worry that this could impact the way they form attachment to people in the future.
Unless there are exceptional circumstances that JUSTIFY it (a friend of mine was homeschooled for several years because he was born while both his parents were doing research on fish and frogs in the middle of the Amazon), homeschooling should definitely be considered a form of child abuse. The toll on social and emotional development it has on an individual is far too big.
for the whole homeschooling thing, you have to go to some place to pass exams, her doing this illegally not only makes her kids lose basic communication skills, but also sets them up for failure!
I get the feeling that you had a much more pleasant and positive time in school than I did. I certainly don't have the same fondness for traditional school that you do. LOL
Having experienced private school, public school, and homeschooling, I can certainly see benefits from each but I feel I got the most from the homeschooling educationally and the ability to self-educate which I find still benefits me greatly to this day. I really can't say the same for the other two. How people act in school is not how adults act in real life so I'm not sure that all the bullying I experienced did anything but make me a very hurt and hateful person in my youth. I agree with you that the family unit you have done this piece on seems majorly dysfunctional, but I don't think that your limited experience with homeschooled children can give you the ability to pass such a heavy judgement on those who actually find it beneficial and do it legally and properly.
I guess I said all that to say, I don't think it is helpful to perpetuate negative stereotypes based on our biases. In a time of so much open mindedness, there are still some very narrow views on things like this.
@@edwardlthompson Thank you for saying this! I was homeschooled for most of my life but went to a charter school when I was older. My experience homeschooling wasn't perfect, but my mom laid out a great foundation for me, and most of the kids in our local homeschooling community were years ahead of the average student academically. Meanwhile, I had an atrocious experience in high school with myriad incompetent teachers, unmanageable stress levels, social ostracization, and mental health crises that lead to me hating school and learning almost nothing. There are definitely issues with homeschooling - for example, it is pretty difficult to socialize with others - but I think I would've been miserable at public school. And my fellow homeschooled friends are some of the sweetest, most thoughtful and intelligent people I know. We're not just weird, uneducated freaks as is often (unfortunately) portrayed online.
I just graduated high school a week ago and in one week I have been so grateful for the fact that I went to high school and got my diploma cause it really does open doors, one week and I already am seeing how important it was. Homeschooling doesn’t give you this
I was home schooled by my parents for 7th and 8th grade. My dad’s mom was a teacher and my dad is very good at teaching because of it and my mom used to work with little kids in education and is now an associate dean at a high ranking college. The rest of my years I was in public school. The only reason I was in homeschool was because of abuse from kids and friends and also emotional trauma and issues. Ive turned out fine and honestly home school helped me a lot. There are good things to home school but it’s important to give your kids at least some Public School for a few years so they can be able to know everything and can have success in everything they do.
One of these parents just put their children in very small beds but no its actually a shelf so these saving money but they are not. Making a rockwall and not a ladder!
12:38 this bit made me so mad. It shows how immature this woman is and how she sounds quite like a rage bait in my opinion. I could never live a van life due to my chronic illness, it's not even about relationships with family. Her mindset is awful, just like forcing kids to live that life (because it's not really a choice if the only ideologies and knowledge her kids have learnt were because of her or apps she chose on her iPad) Quite awful to be a parent like that and shamelessly post it on the internet!
I dont live in a van, but recently, my father quit his job and is now currently living with his parents in England while he "finds" a job (bro is NOT finding a job, bro is just getting drunk every day and using up all my granddads money). Me, my 2 little sisters, and my mom are all here in the Philippines in a one room condo with a small tiny bathroom. I am about to go to college (i am 18), which i did not get to pick, because me mkm is controlling, and my 2 little sisters are homeschooled. We all HATE it here. Theres one room so we have a bunk bed and i sleep on a bunch of wooden crates. Theres no privacy whatsover, no curtain, nothing. Its horrible. I cant even begin to say how much i hate it here. As soon as i graduate im getting an apartment and moving my siblings out of here
As a homeschooler who has gone to public school, when done right homeschooling is much better. However ive seen people who abuse the privilege and sabotage their child's future
5:51 im german and that’s not true yes we might not do it immediately in the hospital but at least we stay in the hospital to get checked and the baby gets checked as well (we do get vaccinated after birth just not immediately)
“I’m sorry you don’t have that relationship with your families, maybe you should work on that” Me: I love my brother and parents a lot. You know what I also like? Friends, extracurriculars, a nice neighborhood community, and an actual education.
i'm homeschooled and i'm pretty much like everybody else, but i do get pretty lonely and bored at home. BUT, my home was a HOME, not a van lol. i had great parents and a great house and have a social life. a lot of homeschooling families aren't crunchy or weird.
As someone who was forced into the public education system at the tender age of 4, the only things school taught me was that no adult actually gave a shit about kids and the only reason they took that teaching job for was so that they could get a power trip. Being neurodivergent in the public school system was traumatizing in of in itself and I got little to no real accommodations throughout the years, just teachers shaming me for being neurodivergent before I was diagnosed and teachers pretending to care while refusing to accommodate me after I was diagnosed
this video is alright but i do not like the way in which you talk about homeschool. you said that it’s a form of child abuse and that homeschool kids turn out weird. i have been homeschooled for a year and loved it. i still had lots of socializing including youth group and church and also friends outside of those places. please don’t crap on homeschooling if you’ve never experienced it.
Like I said, homeschooling is fine if it’s done correctly. Seems like your parents are doing it right. Nadine is traveling full time in a van and her kids have no friends. Her own government said that it’s abusive not me. If you’re happy that’s awesome :)
I might be wrong, but if you've only been homeschooled as a temporary thing and not your entire formative school years (like myself) I don't think you're really who she was talking about, even if she herself didn't think about it. People who have only been temporarily homeschooled have a completely different experience than those who were homeschooled from 1st to 12th grade. You still have had years of public schooling, socializing and time spent with other kids and just people in general. People homeschooled 100% (from my experience) do not have any of that. In my personal experience being homeschooled, I had literally, and I do not exaggerate, zero interaction at all with other children aside from my siblings, until I was 16 and got a part time job. And take my word for it, my life and my siblings lives have been impacted because of it. I can't out words in anyone's mouths, but other people I have met who were homeschooled the way I was seem to be more or less the same. So, I do agree that in most cases, homeschoolers turn out weird. No hate to you, your experiences are your own and are valid. I just think you aren't who we're referring to when we say that homeschooling is a form of abuse (which I personally believe to be true).
@@myth6931 ok, thanks for your reply . don’t agree with you whatsoever. and i’ve known many people who have also been homeschooled that were and have been homeschooled since their school career started and they are very smart people and very kind and normal. please don’t disregard me as the part of the “us” you’re referring to. and personally, i was happier being homeschooled than in a normal school setting. i had the freedom to take my time on homework and to have a more flexible schedule. but, everyone has their own experiences and im sorry that your homeschooling didn’t benefit you in the right ways and you see it as a form of abuse. it’s really sad to see homeschooling not done the right way and seeing the impacts it can have on people. God made everyone differently, He made everyone to have their own opinions and their own way in which they learn. so i will not disregard your experience because it has clearly impacted you.
I agree with you I grew up from grade 1-12 in homeschool and I loved it my social skills a bit laking yes but I wouldn't trade that I got time with my mom and my siblings that I other wise wouldn't and I'm incredibly close to all of them I grew up in youth group and went on trips with them and I grew up in church learning about God and loving him and there's nothing I can imagine that would make me happier for a childhood
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I used to live in an RV full time with my family. We never traveled because we never had money because my parents don't work. We lived off of food stamps and child support. The RV was so small. I slept on a couch, my stepbrother slept on a couch, and my little brother slept on the cold hard wood floor. We had no space, no privacy, while my parents had a door, a big ass king sized bed and their own room. It was miserable living with 4 other people in a place that was that small. I recently turned 18 2 months ago and I moved out 2 days after i turned 18. It was the best day of my life. I live with my boyfriend now and i finally have my own space, a comfortable bed, and we don't live off of food stamps.
THIS IS SUCH AN AMAZING STORY! go live your best life queen
Wow way to judge the people that paid for you for 18 years and did the best they could. I'm sure that you in all your 18 yr old wisdom could tell them how to do it better. And way to shame people who need a little help due to under employment or an emergency!!
Ps you are now living off your boyfriend...which is way superior to doing things for yourself
@@Ezralovessaul for your information, my parents were not the best parents. I was forced to do everything in that RV while my parents didnt do anything but sit on their ass all day. My parents do not work. And they still have 2 kids to care for. I did not get a childhood because I was busy trying to be the 2nd parent to my siblings, I was busy trying to push myself through high school all while trying to juggle with my own mental health. So instead of judging and saying stuff before you think, kindly shut up.
And I hate to tell you..MANY PARENTS ARE WORSE!! if your biggest complaint is how you helped out at home and didn't have money well I'll be the first to tell you...there are people who are beaten, molested, starved...but your generation is very materialistic so it's not a shock
Just to make this Clear:
In Germany, Homeschooling is generally not a concept. You are required by law to send your Kids to School and support them doing that or the Goverment will punish you if not straight up taking you Kids away.
She would also be Financially Supported if she is a German and could easily live in an Apartment with her Kids having their own Room.
In case she is German it sounds more like Child Abuse and avoiding the German Youth welfare Office.
She is German yeah and totally. She could have a welfare supported house and get money for the kids. They don’t have to travel full-time. Makes no sense why she does this.
So the government take your kids off you if you don't send them to school, where they're being brainwashed and having stupid agendas shoved down their throat! 😬
That's horrible!
i live in germany and i’m homeschooled. it was a fight to get me to this point but § 35 is like a hole in their law
It's disgusting that they take your children from you! Why? Because you won't let the government brainwash them!
@@Sefyr- There are specific exceptions but i highly doubt that you just casually use § 35 to get your kids out of school duty.
I just assume that your situation was not just because your Parents dont like public schools and when you turned 6 they said fuck it lets live in an RV.
When I was a child I would have been very happy to eat nothing but candy and potato chips all day. But my mother did not let me because she knew better! It’s a parents job to do what’s best for their children not just what makes them happy
Exactly!
Very important statement that is so overlooked 😢
Yes. And in addition to that, my parents, also somehow managed, to let myself choose how much, when I want to eat sweets, and somehow i didn’t abused it, because, I had alotbif freedom(not in a bad way, but rather in anyway, where, I could do my own choices, which my partners supported actively, they let me make mistakes, but helped me stand up again)(really a lot) and purely based on trust. So this lead to a very strong trust bond, and this made us somehow really close, I don’t know how they did that. When I saw my friends, they asked if they could have sweets, parents said no. I (mostly) didn’t have to ask, (but often did that in my own will). And my parents also sind not forced me to do things I don’t like, didn’t forced me to eat things I don’t like, but made me so I would try things and then decide if I like them or not. And there were also no spereate foods. If I wanted pizza (sometimes, and like my parents were not against it,), everybody had pizza, but also, if they clocked fish, then everyone had fish, and if someone didn’t liked it (never tried, just preference) then they would find a solution,
The point I try to make here, is to not over control kids, show them what trust means, show them what it means NOT having trust, (which bís importent to learn). And yes, quilt tripping is not a. Very nice way, but it makes someone clear on what another person reales like about something without telling them no. And doing this correctly, you could even allow your kids/teens to go out at night, without giving them a time to go back, and they will know on their own, when they should come home (of course, they first need to be told what’s ok and what’s not in some way), and they do. And yes, maybe some kids this won’t work, but, in my opinion these are special occasions. And also if the kid wants to jump from the tree then let them. If they break their leg, not good, but they gain trust in themselves, and learn to Jude. If the parent would say don’t jump, (ok if this is a 20 m high tree I get it ), the kids won’t understand why. And yes it will hurt, and yes they will maybe be mad, but next time, they will not jump and maybe not climb high. And also learn that Avery thing they do will have consequences, which a lot of adults don’t even know, because they don’t had a chance to learn it.
Wait I saw you on another video-
excuse me what? in a van with kids, a 'homeless junkie' AND YOUR EX HUSBAND????
Yep. Lol
I would never want to live with a homeless partner much less my ex
If her ex got a girlfriend and she started living with them too...crazier than a fever dream.
Oh god
There not going to fit
Sounds like a really Bad sitcom
“And this privacy blah blah blah..” 😨
It just shows that she doesn’t care about their privacy
when i tell u i was SHOOKETH
As someone whose parents made me keep my bedroom door open 24/7, I HATED that part. Privacy is important! And yes, the kids will “experiment” curtain or no curtain(you just get good at being silent)!😉
I wasn't allowed to leave my bedroom door open because one time my cat got stuck in my room and he pooped on the floor
Right! WTF
So…they’re one of “van lifers” who are truly homeless and don’t have any remote jobs etc… they’re just out there winging it and putting their children through hell 🤦♀️🤦♀️
yeah... and if they want back to Germany the govt would give them a full house with rooms and free education they just don't want to do that lol
@@shirashiraonthewall Jesus. That sounds like they hit government lottery.
@@shirashiraonthewall because then they'll have to work to pay for the house, that's why. There are so many parents/ adults running away from work in Europe it's crazy! Because the government is allowing and supporting them trough social and child support money that they get from the working class as taxes. It's disgusting!
@@biancaman4930 No, it is nice. First of all there aren't "so many" who do this. Second, it is good that there is a safety net for the kids. I like it that I live in a country for the people and not for the companies like the USA.
@@biancaman4930 No they do not have to pay for anything, if you are jobless in germany, the state ensures that you have enough to survive. Not to lavish in luxury of course, but rent is paid, utilities are paid and sometimes they even hand out food-cards instead of money, to make sure people actually buy food with the money.
I travelled full time with my mum from the age of 7 to 13.
It was just us 2 but I still hated it.
Yes, I saw a lot of places and experienced a lot of things, and there were good moments, but I still hated it. I literally can't even imagine if I had a sibling, LET ALONE TEN OF THEM. I would probably just run away, for real.
I wasn't allowed internet or a phone and we never stayed anywhere any longer than a few weeks at most which meant if I did make friends, I wouldn't have them for long.
It was lonely and boring and alienating and I would NOT recommend this life to anyone for more than just the occasional road trip.
It f**ked up my social development so badly that when I was eventually put in school I developed clinical depression, anxiety, an eating disorder, and behavioural issues (which I luckily grew out of).
DO NOT DO THIS TO YOUR KIDS.
I’m so sorry you went though that :(
im so sorry!!!
I am sorry for you and hope you doing well now.
"I wasn't allowed internet or a phone "
My dude, you were 7 💀💀
@@Mostima25 and what do you expect for them to use to... you know, SOCIALIZE? with, OTHER PEOPLE?
"Room" is a very generous word for where the children sleep
My biggest concern was not only her lack of concern over privacy, but the fact she actually expects if not encourages her children to "explore their bodies" while she and her partners what? Watch? These poor kids are not safe, and sure as hell can't defend themselves.
idk its soooooo weird hhhahaha
As I understood, she just expects them.. not to do that *because* there is so little privacy. So she expects them to just.. never experiment ever?? Learn their ways and go outside for it?? Like what the hell
Something tells me that the parents are p3dos.
As a German we don‘t claim her 😅. I know that my niece and nephew were both given multiple antibiotics and injections of different medication when they were born and that was in Germany
😂😂😂
ok, but it is not normal to geht antibiotics, not without reasons.
Antibiotics should not be prescribed before age 2 except under special circumstances. So being born doesn't require antibiotics
@@tinameiling3646She talked about eye drops and I know that in many countries like the us after babies are born they put eye drops into the eyes. Those are antibiotics to prevent eye infections from STIs the mother might have. They do this just in case which actually hurts the baby when they are not necessary. Their immune system is super fragile and those eye drops are strong. That said, she picked up a junkie from the streets and got pregnant, the eye drops might be useful…
@@vivieneckert1627 in Germany it's normal to test for the common STDs and STIs and with a small charge for HIV during third trimester. So to not overmedicate a newborn
All paid by healthcare - the small charge (not sure. Was long ago) is around 20 euros or Something???
As a homeschooled person, "they learn by themselves I don't have to do anything" IS A RED FLAG AF. In my country homeschooling is just going to school that doesn't force a schedule on you, so each student is still a couple of minutes away from talking with a teacher if they need to, and many of us use that a lot! I have some sort of interaction with our teachers almost every day, sometimes I come to listen to some online classes, sometimes I make sure I know what I can do for my exams (we have written and oral, oral exams are a bit more complicated and many of us do projects, but we need to know if they're fine for the subject) , sometimes I go into some online discussion organised by the school (for example we have classes where the teacher just throws a topic and we are supposed to speak it through in another language! Or sometimes we play games in this other language, it's very fun and people are great). We also can get ourselves a call with a psychologist, which, in this country, is amazing, because we don't have a right to go to doctors without parent's permission, but here we control what classes we take and what online meetings we go to. Being homeschooled without all that support sounds like a nightmare. Humans learn through play, experiences, interactions with people. While I don't think public schools do that well, in our school we are considered equals to our teachers and speaking with them is great. It really encourages to speak up and actively learn and get curious. I think I'm much braver than I was when I was in public school. Education is the parent's duty, in public school it's already a red flag when somebody thinks their child's education is not their business, but in homeschool? That's a recipe for failure.
what country is it? are there also real life interactions or just online?
@@kurbukurbu I'm in Poland. While I mostly stay to onilne interactions as I live in a place away from anyone (which is no change from public school, I was a bit of an outcast and I'm an hour away from a city), the school organizes meetings in many cities in the country and has at least one building that I know on where there are everyday normal classes. We have a mobile app dedicated for meetings, and we're encouraged to create our own, so this is very easy to meet people from school. I usually just take care of my contacts on my own and meet people my age that don't go to the same school as I do, for example by volunteering in a shelter. I get e-mails from school about new meetings at least... once a month? once two months? And in one message there are multiple dates and places. I've been on a picnic organized by the school and it was very fun. There were some places for DIY, cakes, different attractions. It's very easy to find people to talk with there :)
Oo i am from Poland! Actually School in Poland are sometimes have really bad education system, i am In Social school and i need to tell that it's not as good as imagined but it's better than public, but of course one of our biggest problems is, Homophobia, Transphobia, and really bad vision about mental disorders like ADHD and other. And to be honest, if i could, i would change to homeschool, and yeah I know that sometimes is not that great, i know i could change schools but first i get used to this school and after those years i stand it and second i am scared of abonding my Best friend because they are actually only person that i trust the most (Parents not included lol) I have an anxiety disorder that makes me worry about specific things more than others, and thats really annoying, but i really can't do anything about it, that's why I am worring about my relationships *to much.*
Srry for bad English
@@SILLYGOOBSTER-LOLXDD Yeah, the system is really bad, but there are schools that don't go with the Polish system (check Budząca się Szkoła, they've got a map of those!). I also totally get what you're talking about, I've ADHD and autism and anxiety and I never got any help. A lot depends on the school you go to. I went to a liceum that was really accepting, but I know I was lucky there. Still, I went to Chmura and I feel better here. Also going homeschooled when you can't trust your parents... It probably would be impossible in any way. It's a scary and big decision overall, it helps a bit to realize school is not that big of a deal, you can't be lawfully discriminated because of being homeschooled, the grades don't matter to anybody after it... but parents sometimes make that very hard. The school I was in before homeschooling allows me to visit! So I am able to see my old classmates. I don't know if other schools would allow that tho... Good luck to you, going to school in Poland is not easy. They expect so much and give nothing back. (also your English is not bad, it's easy to understand from context even if there are mistakes, and in the real world that's all that matters)
wait so shes,,, technically on the run from the german government 😳
lol yes
She's literally on the run from a government that does everything it can to give people like her a better life😵💫
Europol plz help those children 👀
@@shirashiraonthewall Wouldn't they be extradited to Germany (or Spain... or Portugal.
..) if they're caught while traveling in the EU?
I always find people saying about their kids like "but they’re happy so no issue" really really grave and bad, kids are happy, they are not equiped to understand what life is, they feel good in the moment. When I was 5yo my dad was at that time untreated bipolar and deeply alcoholic, my parents store went bankrupt and they were left with nothing at all but I as a 5 yo was happy as hell, it’s years later I saw the issues and the effects of that and it’s not the job of kids to justify and legitimate the issues of their parents even more when they can be avoided by simply not living in a car
Great vid too !!!
EXACTLY THE SAME! I appreciate her listening to her kids, but honestly they don’t know the half of it. They don’t understand why school is important. They don’t understand why privacy is important. You can’t just let kids do whatever they want. I DEFINITELY would have loved to be homeschooled and to travel full time when I was a kid, but now that I’m older, I’m glad that I wasn’t lol
Its the same as when america was segregated. You cant have dreads if your skin color is white. You cant sit in the front of the bus if your skin color is black
@@shirashiraonthewallthey also don’t understand why vaccines is important 😅
We vacinate babys at brth in germany but i think her 2 brain cells dont know that
Newborns are vaccinated in most developed countries!
@@MorganVsTheInternet yes but i think she doesnt know that
"they wanted to inject her a million things like we don't do that in Germany we don't inject a million things"
The wording makes it seem, that Germany didn't inject AS much as Spain, though I think she's against that too.
@@MorganVsTheInternet *all. Vacinating babies from birth is one of the reasons why infant mortality is so low in all developed countries.
id just like to say as someone who lived like this for a huge part of my childhood: its horrible. i lived in a shelf made for storage and the lil curtain i had was a cut shower curtain. i had a metal dora box and if my toys didnt fit i didnt keep them. we werent filmed, but it was still by choice. my parents choice. it is absolutely impossible to develop as a teenager and young adult when your only privacy is the 8x6 bathroom. no typo. i still struggle alot with privacy now that i live in a house with a close friend. i have awful anxiety when my friend goes in my room or touches my things. id just like to let yall know that its worse than they show. have a blessed day ❤
edit: i forgot to mention that i was diagnosed with autism when i was little. living in a rolling circus didnt help.
I am sorry for you and wish you the best for your future!
That’s horrible. I hope you can heal as much as possible and live out the rest of your life how you want it.
the memoirs that will come out in 10-20 years will be insane
I'm waiting for all the "I'm glad my mom died" social media editions
Yeah, as a kid who's been homeschooled through various different courses, it really sucks, especially when you vocally tell them you want to go back to public school and they just try to tell you about all the drugs, all the kids getting beat up, etc. They terrified me out of going back to public school and I was homeschooled from halfway through 2nd grade to 8th grade, then thrown around a couple homeschool co-ops through highschool. One year of highschool left, which will probably be at the community college. I've managed to keep myself mentally together in one piece, despite her actively opposing any sort of therapy or treatment options.
And yet she wonders why I want to go across the Atlantic to the Netherlands for college. Nothing she's doing is illegal, but it adds up.
Awwwww I’m so sorry you are going through all that 😭 they say it’s for your protection but all it is, is sheltering you from the real work 🫣 I hope you find solace in collage. Just don’t go too hard with the illegal substances 😇
I've gone through public school, and it isn't bad at all. Honestly, the worst that could happen is someone gets in a little tussle with someone else 😑 if your smart and avoid it like me, your fine. And the blah blah about drvgs and stuff didn't occur at any of my schools.
As a homeschooled kiddo, the parents telling you about the druggies and the things that go on in the bathroom, and the bullies are so real 😭 I’m fortunate enough to have good doctors, and I’m currently having counseling/ therapy to keep my mental health in check. I’m also fortunate to have parents that listen to my complaints about homeschooling. I’m glad I’m homeschooling during this time, but I’m also glad to go back to public school in around a year or two. I’m so sorry for everything you’ve gone through, and what you’re going through. I haven’t been homeschooled my whole life, so I have it easy compared to you. I hope your future becomes SO much better! I pray life will treat you so much better as it comes along. It’s a brave thing to speak out about your homeschooling experience.
I'm from the Netherlands.. I pray hopefully one day you'll be able to go to college here :) Glad you're still getting through
Husband was homeschooled, I went to public. He loved it because he was doing terrible in a structured curriculum. He needed more time and more ability to move his body. I loved going to public school for a place with structure and places to have quiet thoughts. We're on the fence with our kids. I don't want to lose the social connections of public. He doesn't want the rigidity and allows us the freedom to study at our child's pace.
I wanna know so much more about the homeless boyfriend. Where did he come from? Why did she decide to let him shack up? Most importantly, what do the kids think?!?
My issue with her "homeschooling," is that it comes across as lazy. In the earlier 2000s, there was a father and daughter living in a lean to in a protected forest in Oregon. He homeschooled his daughter using a set World Book Encyclopedias, but because the father was actively teaching his kid, the girl was described as being well spoken and even a little a head of her peers academically. This chick has an "app" teaching her kids and it seems to be the only form of education, besides meeting (unvetted and potentially dangerous) new people & being a constant tourist. She doesn't give a real schedule about doing reading, writing and arithmetic, having her kids do reports about cultural or historical aspects of whatever place they are in or learning new languages. The "app" is deciding her kids' education. She is putting in as much or even less work than suburban moms that send their kids to school and go to work.
I feel sorry for the rest of the family. I wouldn't be surprised if the ex husband would have loved to take the kids he shares with this narcissist and let her bum around with her hobo boyfriend, but now she has a baby with the hobo, the other kids really don't want to be separated from the sibling and the dad either has to tagalog or rarely see his kids.
I was homeschooled by my mother for a few years, they bought all the workbooks to our chosen curriculum. After returning to public school, I was academically ahead too, and my social skills weren't impacted because I participated in sports etc. So yeah, homeschooling is not as bad as some make it out to be, it just depends on the parent and their intentions.
I am currently a 12 year old girl who by homeschooling is a freshman. Homeschooling is sometimes better especially when it comes to the American public school system.
I was actually homeschooled and i turned out fine ( im going to college at 16 )BUT MY MOM WAS SMART AND TEACHED OTHER KIDS ,HOMESCHOOLING IS NOT LETTING KIDS DO WORK BY THEMSELVES ITS ABOUT TEACHING THEM !
100% true
@@shirashiraonthewall omg thx for reading my comment 💓
12:00 As a note, you are a Spaniard by virtue of being born in Spain regardless of your parents' country of origin, and you can only lose Spanish nationality if you are of legal age and request it by yourself (parents have no authority in this regard). School enrolling is compulsory for all Spanish citizens and homeschooling is illegal here (education legislation is straightforward, no loopholes to be exploited); sooo I really hope they enroll their little child in a real school when the child is of age because if not, one fine day they may end up surrounded by Europol agents themselves.
I hope all their children get an honest and stable education and life, instead of being TikTok cannon fodder. It must be horrible to grow up in such an environment...
Wait that’s so interesting! Thank you for that!
That is nice, so then they will be on the run from the german gouvernment because of the two older children and from the spanish gouvernment because of the youngest? Unfortunally, it will take additional 6 years till that point.
I've never lived in a van, but I grew up in a household with major substance abuse issues and general mental illness. My mum barely took care of me BUT she still made sure I got a proper EDUCATION and had at least some level of PRIVACY. Sadly these parents don't even seem to consider that for their kids :(
0:20 that lady let a STRANGER LIVE IN HER RV I feel so bad for those kids
As a child who begged to be homeschooled bc of bullying and As a mommy who is homeschooling, my kids come first. School is a huge deal in our family. My daughter is two and knows how to count to ten, her abcs, animals noises, animals, she sings, signs, talks in full sentences. We also get out of the house every day for child intercation. Wheter that be the park, library or children's museum. I also made sure to have lots of mommy friends that have kiddos my kids age. Homeschooling isnt always abuse, its how you homeschool.
The fact that at 2, your child can speak in full sentences, is great!
I so agree! I think regular school is horrible. The idea is for kids to learn so they can have jobs, learn life, and social skills, and all that is great, but the execution is terrible. They overwork them to the point of mental abuse, and when the other kids say or do something instead of the teachers fixing it so it doesn't happen again, they don't even bother. It causes so many issues. I think homeschooling is great because they can learn everything without being overworked, and then as long as they do other activities, they get all of the social and life skills!
As a teacher in Germany who taught with an app during the pandemic, having the children doing those tasks on the app only is not sufficient. These apps are mainly just multiple choice tasks, no critical thinking and no expressing of one's own opinion. It's fine AS AN ADDITION but not instead of school. And of course everything you mentioned about social skills. They could get a diploma if they write an exam at a public school but if they are only being taught by an app they will have no idea how those tests are structured and what is required.
I'm old enough to remember when living in a van down by the river was considered a bad thing.
As a kid who’s being homeschooled, I don’t personally call myself weird but I think that’s because I’ve been to so many schools (8) and I’ve always had a bad experience with them so I’ve just decided to do homeschooling and now I learn marine biology in my bedroom
That’s awesome! Again, it’s how you do it that matters the most. If I had the patience I would definitely homeschool my kids
@@shirashiraonthewall hello Shira yes that is true also thank you for replying to my comment. This is the first time a person with over 100,000 followers on TH-cam has replied to me ❤❤❤
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Stick with it, work hard and you’ll be just fine. Marine biology is cool.
My son is the same way, he went to 6 different schools trying to find the best one had issues and had experiences with every school, after we moved he begged me to home school him, and he is and has been for two years now he loves it he's in higher subjects then just his regular grade, he gets breaks when he needs it.. anyways he loves it, and we really do sit down and do home work together, he's doing 5th grade work and only in 3rd grade.
Homeschooling can be great if it's done right
If they were trying to give the baby injections/antibiotics don't you think that might be because something went wrong during birth😭or maybe it's to protect the kid from future health issues? Also I refuse to believe the hospital called the police because she denied them of injection her child with "a million things" ... I bet she was doing something more
It’s definitely SUS 👀
True, usually babies will be injected with only 2 things. Antibiotics? That baby might be ill and the doctors are trying to help them.
I am currently being homeschooled, it has been a wonderful experience but only when done right. I’m homeschooled in an environment that is similar to a classroom, I have different subjects to study friends to play with people to talk to and a place to read and complete tasks.
That isn’t homeschooling that is just giving your kid a worksheet every week or so, that’s not an education.
Edit: I also went to school for a long time and then we made the decision to homeschool.
In Germany, newborns also get vaccinations. And that's been the case for a while. In my vaccination certificate there are 3 vaccinations entered in 1999, so it is absolute nonsense to claim that it is different in Germany than in Spain. XD
Yeah, this woman is a big time liar. If she isn't forced to do anything, then why did she run from Germany and isn't going back? Oh right! Because of vaccinations, school and who knows what other things she has done, she might be wanted for ...
Can we NOT skip over the fact she let a random man live with her kids ?! That’s so unsafe
I was on a boat which is pretty similar to van-life no space, unstable friends, bad education, and unsafe shit like that. I was 9 when I moved on I am now 14 moving off when I returned to where I am from I had no friends did not know how tf to act because you know. It's just fucking ruined my life in general.
@@badgalii I’ll send you a request I think my username is the same as TH-cam or similar
I believe in you, things will definitely get better! ❤
Idk if this helps but most teens from a 'normal' upbringing are socially awkward too, so don't be hard on yourself 😊
Hey i would also love to add you on some social media you have. We seem to be around the same age as well@@thunderlight1055
“I’m sorry you don’t have as close a relationship with your family as I do to live in a camper together!”
Excuse you, lady! I have excellent relationships with my parents and siblings and we DID live in a camper for a summer. You wanna know what it was like? It was damn close to hell! Two working adults (my dad as a mechanical engineer in an office and my mum as a real estate agent at the time), my brother was 20 and trying to figure out how to get to his university classes regularly, my sister was 16 and was graduating high school, and I was 11 and struggling with middle school because my learning disabilities were not identified yet. We needed to live in a camper for a summer because we were moving to another city and the closing dates of our old house and the new house didn’t line up all that well, so we were technically homeless for 147 days.
By the end, we were at each other’s throats and by the time we made it to the new house we immediately picked our room and took a nap, not caring our beds weren’t delivered from storage yet.
Oh my god that sounds like hell 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ I’m so sorry
@@shirashiraonthewall Oh, don't worry! All five of us look back at that and collectively agree it sucked but was necessary. We are still all close knit.
The chances of her kids being harmed go up exponentially when she is inviting a stranger into her "home". That is just another notch on her belt of irresponsible parenting choices. She doesn't deserve to parent them.
I'm sorry, how do you make a living "doing bubbles"? Is it like busking?
Idk if you’ve ever been to a park where some random dude makes like huge bubbles from string, I think that’s what they are talking about
@@shirashiraonthewall I've never seen that in my life but I believe it.
I believe she might have said bottles. In Germany and many other euro countries we have Pfand. So a little extra fee you pay for your bottles ~25-50 cent that you get back when you return the bottles to a store. Many people still throw their bottles into the trash so many poor people go and rummage through the trash to collect those bottles and cash them in. In cities It’s common to place your Pfand bottles next to the trashcan instead of throwing them in so they don’t have to endanger and humiliate themselves reaching into the trash
Gosh I hope so. Because the alternative slang defintion I know would mean she just admitted to using or selling (possibly legal, depends on where you are) drugs.
lol i was so confused hearing that, my first thought was it might be a codeword for prostitution or something, with a hippie like her you never know 😂
She's from my country?! On behalf of Germany: We don't want her back.
I’m homeschooled and had higher SAT scores than my valedictorian though… it’s very effective for a lot of people who don’t like school when you have an active caring parent teaching you.
That would not be these people though. 😂😂😂
Exactly multiple things can exist. But homeschooling shouldn’t be demonized. Some kids don’t function well in traditional school.
I know its not the worst part of the video, but the when he cuts her off to "correct" her with "when WE gave birth" is seriously giving me the creeps
This came out right as i finished watching the first part
Omg legendary timing ⏱️ 💪
As a kid whose mom is an influencer, it’s already hard to have all of you’re achievements, failure’s and life moments onlilne. All though I do live in a normal house and I have my own room and my face is never posted online, I do still feel like I have less privacy and control over what ppl know about me. Because I don’t have my face all over the internet only my best friend knows about me being on social media. I can’t imagine how it is for those kids to be plastered all over the internet and after having that privacy taken away, they have to live in an place where you have no room for privacy and being logged around the country and having no irl friends to vent to and have no social interaction with ppl your own age. I could not imagine that, because every time I feel that I don’t have any privacy I just sit in my own room doing anything I want, like, playing loud music, watching TH-cam videos, sleeping, working out, etc.
My mother invited a homeless junkie to live with her, she thought she could help and change him, she died 4 months later of a drug overdose, I'm not saying don't help people, but im saying know who it is you're helping
im homeschooled and i'm not weird :( i'm going to college at 16 and getting a bachelors in engineering at 20. being homeschooled helps get you a 4.0 gpa. but yes it is in some states illegal. but it does hurt when people call us stupid or weird.
thanks for saying something! i totally agree, im homeschooled and when she was talking abt i was like dang is that rlly what you think of us?
Hey your parents are doing it right! That’s awesome :) it was a joke so don’t take it to heart ❤️
@@shirashiraonthewall thank you, if i came of too hard im sorry. i love your content!
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@@shirashiraonthewall no no, all good. :)
This has to be considered abuse. You can’t convince otherwise.
This is why protection is important... Why vanlifers conceive in the first place when they can't even afford their own child's expense, basic public schooling & "privacy blah blah blah" ???
I swear I can smell that van through the screen 🤢
Bottles not bubbles. In Europe you get money from empty bottles
really? Sounds like she meant bubbles
@shirashiraonthewall just might be her accent. Besides I don't think there is any money in bubbles 😅
Yeah not sure hey hahahah maybe you’re right 🤷🏼♀️
maybe doing bubbles for kids in the parks (some hippies do that here, they make demostration and then sell the experience to the kids... or painting to....
@@lizismis She said "bubbles" several times. For sure not "bottles".
are we not gonna mind how she basically never wears a full set of clothing like a normal person?
No AC on the road lol they gotta save cash
So much to criticize, and you choose *check notes* their clothes? "Like normal people" :D. I don't support fully what they do, especially how they do it, but just rambling about a social norm that doesn't influence anything is just sad.
@@glasernerburger9402 so going everywhere half naked is normal?
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Strawman much? Where did anyone say "everywhere" or how do you know they're going "everywhere" naked?
Is "normal" even something logical, beneficial, that it is worth striving for?
Apart from that, that highly dependent on who you ask, for the most Europeans- yes (full)nudity is normal and to be expected. Especially if its hot or near water.
I haven't really watched her outfits because i don't care, but yes- going half naked can be normal in a lot of places.
I have a homeschooled online friend and I always makes sure he keeps up with trends and humor so he doesn’t end up too serious or too silly
I know plenty of people who were home school but they were part of athletic programs or dance programs and even went to top universities. So they still had those social connections with friends without being online. I roll my eyes these days when people use homeschooling to do free vacations
Can't believe she's just saying these are not your kids so you don't get to judge me abusing them and ruining their lives
There are several videos about how homeschooling is sometimes abusive-and terrible education. Unfortunately it has powerful lobbying organizations
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Me too
Lol. Me too! 😂
Therapists will be having field trips with those children as their patients... if, hopefully, those kids manage to get the therapy they need.
The scariest part, to me, was that the mother thinks the kids are happy because they tell her they are happy. Among all the things you said, a lot of times kids learn to shut up and be quiet lest they make their parents angry and/or sad. The mother doesn't seem to realize that, and she doesn't seem like the kind of person who will encourage emotional honesty and openness to her kids. "My child is fine!" Your child is learning about life through an ipad and doesn't have real friends. They're not kids, they're social experiments.
That’s so true actually I didn’t even think about that lol I don’t even tell my parents how I feel EVER because they make it a big deal if I’m ever sad
sometimes i wonder why van life families can’t just rent a house in the school year and live in a van in the summer. It would make so much sense too, they could get a remote job and their kids could still keep friends
I can’t believe we are calling RV’s, busses and trailers “vans” but anyways-this is what we did. My kids travel a lot and so get burnt out eventually, but also public school is its own drain and I could barely get my kids to the end of the month of public school before we left on our last extended trip. They returned just before the end of the school year and got to reconnect socially, academically they did very well.
We homeschooled for 3 months to travel many states (real school was 6 months and we do study during the summer to stay ahead). During the summer we only take brief local trips because kids have soccer, camps, grandparent trips plus we love it here in the summer.
I want to point out that the power imbalance between the kid and the parent has a big role to play. Even if she does talk to her kids, they might be saying yes to make her happy and not complain. My family had to move a lot because of homelessness, and by the time they were simply moving for no reason, I just accepted it because that's how it had always been. It wasn't until I became an adult that I started to resent my parents for breaking so many promises about my stability. And yeah, maybe they like it, but you are locking them into the influencer lifestyle which is not for everybody. They need an education so they have something to fall back on, and they won't be able to live later on if they do decide they want to be a part of society again.
100% agreed!
so in 2020 my dad had to travel for work and would be away for months as he was filling in for a guy who couldnt come there due to the travel laws between countrys. we got an RV and me, my parents and 2 younger sibs went tow here my dad was working, it was originally only supposed to be a month or two but turned to 8 months as the travel bans never lifted for a long while, so at first it was more of a temp set up but it evolved into a actual living space. i mean i was awkwardly in a bunk but otherwise everyone had their own space.
im now moved out into my own RV and my parents and younger sibs are still in the original RV but heres the thing, my siblings arent sleeping on the floor or only have a certain. they have full on rooms. 4 walls. twin mattresses and desks. they are home schooled but they attend this like homeschool co-op thats basically school except run by homeschool parents who actually want to teach and they teach actual things they will need in the future and not just the dumb shit schools shove into their brains or try to make them fit into a mold. they have friends, social lives, privacy and are happy. my parents are looking into getting a house around here but first need to get stuff in order and find a home thats actually in the price range.
so like RV life can be done right but most of these RV life family vloggers are doing it all wrong. they have no respect for their kids and their privacy or feelings. they shove them into small spaces, shove a camera in their faces and show the world the most embarassing, personal and private things for millions to see, they starve their kids of actual social lives and expose their children to social media which is not good for them at all. these parents absolutely suck and seem to view their kids more like view magnets then actual people with lives, feelings and rights. they parent poorly and then call anyone pointing out the issues as haters and just ignore the red flags of their kids not being okay!
it pisses me off! RV living can be done right but they are doing it so unbelievably poorly that it makes it seem like anyone who chooses the home school RV life are psycho losers who have no concern for their kids
There’s no way the kids made that choice willingly 😭
Sounds a lot like they're just fleeing the law, and using 'quirky nomad life' as an excuse.
5:31 too be fair people do that when they ascribe things to “Black culture” because it's not monolithic. But also calling Nadine's hair "style" locs is an offence to all cultures
Not the same thing at all. The reason for "black culture", I'm talking specifically in the US, came out of many African-Americans being unable to trace their lineage back to a specific country. The pan-african flag also represents that. It's a privilege to know where your ancestors come from.
@@MelxncholyMermxid I understand that for a specifically US or any other country or region were people of African descent were taken forcibly, I simply meant there's many expressions and cultures of black people
I used to live in a very small camper because my parents had bought some land and were planning to build. They had built a small bunk bed that I barely fit on (I was tall as a kid) I had the top bunk and it was always so hot. My brother got the bottom. We didn’t even have curtains or privacy. You would walk in the door, see a couch, turn to your right, see a tiny tv, turn to your left, see a very small kitchen that breaks worked (the floor was also sinking in along with the ceiling) and then you would see the bunk bed. If you walked into the hall you would go through a doorway, see a tiny bathroom with a shower and trailer along with a sink. You would then go through another door and would be met with a queen sized bed, huge tv, a huge closet, and tons of storage. That was my parents room. I was so miserable during those 3 years of my life that it wasn’t even funny. I feel so bad for these children that had to go through that but with worse conditions. At least I went to public school.
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Okay so the kitchen BARELY worked and trailer auto corrected from toilet.
Do not equate homeschooling to people who neglect her children. It’s not the same. That’s insulting.
Homeschooling is more work for the parents. Not less. She does not homeschool them. She admitted that she does nothing.
Given that a lot can fall under the umbrella term of homeschooling, it can very well be child neglect at times because those who don't properly teach their kids deny them a proper education as well as social skills and good job chances later on in life
I (like most kids) was online homeschooled in 2020 and I did online in 2021 in highschool. It’s not only harder it’s so isolating. I have siblings but being stuck with just your siblings is bad, and damaging to sibling relationships. Being stuck more together is how you get heavy resentment.
Everything they did and you do as a mistake will pile up fast, especially the more bored you all get.
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If you didn’t want to teach her kids, why are they homeschooled?!
I can barely stand being cooped up in my room. Van life sounds AWFUL.
Oh! I would never want to 'get in on' outside with the risk of my ex and or kids coming out to get out of the wretched van!
When our daughter was 1 my husband got a job where he traveled for up to 10 months out of the year. It was very hard for our little family and when she turned three we made the decision to travel for a year with him before she would inevitably have to start school. ( I’d never be brave enough for homeschool) It was an incredible experience. One that I hold even more dear bc 6 months into our travel we found out I was pregnant with twins! I cherished every single second experiencing new places and making memories with baby girl before we became a family of 5! With that said. 1. We traveled and stayed in suites or extended stay hotels. 2. We never ever thought long term this would be a way of life for our children as roots and connections are so important for healthy children. Thankfully 2 months after our twin girls arrived my husband took a position that didn’t involve travel! I feel so incredibly sad for these children. You can certainly travel and have roots. Living out of a glorified car with older children should be classified as abuse.
Just fyi you can definitely learn social skills on the road, the kids just need to meet up with other children, there’s special online communities for that. I don’t know if this particular family does it, just pointing out that if they do actually care, they can easily set up playdates and group study sessions for the kids to help them integrate with other children their age. I don’t think social skills are an issue if properly taken care of, if anything I’d worry about the children’s emotional state instead, due to the lack of permanent relationships with anyone outside of their family. If their family is constantly traveling then at best they’ll have online friendships and friends they meet up with a few times a year, and I’d worry that this could impact the way they form attachment to people in the future.
Unless there are exceptional circumstances that JUSTIFY it (a friend of mine was homeschooled for several years because he was born while both his parents were doing research on fish and frogs in the middle of the Amazon), homeschooling should definitely be considered a form of child abuse. The toll on social and emotional development it has on an individual is far too big.
for the whole homeschooling thing, you have to go to some place to pass exams, her doing this illegally not only makes her kids lose basic communication skills, but also sets them up for failure!
I find it odd that she is so adamant about living in the RV but half of the tik toks are filmed in what looks like houses and apartments.
I get the feeling that you had a much more pleasant and positive time in school than I did. I certainly don't have the same fondness for traditional school that you do. LOL
i was severely bullied and called a lesbian everyday (im bi). that being said, better than van life or being at home with my sh parents
Having experienced private school, public school, and homeschooling, I can certainly see benefits from each but I feel I got the most from the homeschooling educationally and the ability to self-educate which I find still benefits me greatly to this day. I really can't say the same for the other two. How people act in school is not how adults act in real life so I'm not sure that all the bullying I experienced did anything but make me a very hurt and hateful person in my youth. I agree with you that the family unit you have done this piece on seems majorly dysfunctional, but I don't think that your limited experience with homeschooled children can give you the ability to pass such a heavy judgement on those who actually find it beneficial and do it legally and properly.
I guess I said all that to say, I don't think it is helpful to perpetuate negative stereotypes based on our biases. In a time of so much open mindedness, there are still some very narrow views on things like this.
@@edwardlthompson Thank you for saying this! I was homeschooled for most of my life but went to a charter school when I was older. My experience homeschooling wasn't perfect, but my mom laid out a great foundation for me, and most of the kids in our local homeschooling community were years ahead of the average student academically. Meanwhile, I had an atrocious experience in high school with myriad incompetent teachers, unmanageable stress levels, social ostracization, and mental health crises that lead to me hating school and learning almost nothing. There are definitely issues with homeschooling - for example, it is pretty difficult to socialize with others - but I think I would've been miserable at public school. And my fellow homeschooled friends are some of the sweetest, most thoughtful and intelligent people I know. We're not just weird, uneducated freaks as is often (unfortunately) portrayed online.
as someone who was homeschooled only until 3rd grade, I DID NOT KNOW HOW TO READ- I WAS INSECURE OF MY BODY- AT 8 YEARS OLD!!?!
That all look like they smell great...
I just graduated high school a week ago and in one week I have been so grateful for the fact that I went to high school and got my diploma cause it really does open doors, one week and I already am seeing how important it was. Homeschooling doesn’t give you this
School thought me none of the soft skills you mentioned.
You’re not tolerant of other groups or cultures?
@@shirashiraonthewall Not because of school.
@@shirashiraonthewall I’ tolerant simply because I’ve never felt accepted.
@@shirashiraonthewall To be fair, I forgot to mention that I went to school in Poland. Our education system sucks ass…
@@shirashiraonthewallI learned that myself. School taught me no one gives a F, and how to spot and avoid bullies
I was home schooled by my parents for 7th and 8th grade. My dad’s mom was a teacher and my dad is very good at teaching because of it and my mom used to work with little kids in education and is now an associate dean at a high ranking college. The rest of my years I was in public school. The only reason I was in homeschool was because of abuse from kids and friends and also emotional trauma and issues. Ive turned out fine and honestly home school helped me a lot. There are good things to home school but it’s important to give your kids at least some Public School for a few years so they can be able to know everything and can have success in everything they do.
I really thought you were going to do this one from a van.
I don’t think I would ever put myself through that torture
One of these parents just put their children in very small beds but no its actually a shelf so these saving money but they are not. Making a rockwall and not a ladder!
12:38 this bit made me so mad. It shows how immature this woman is and how she sounds quite like a rage bait in my opinion. I could never live a van life due to my chronic illness, it's not even about relationships with family. Her mindset is awful, just like forcing kids to live that life (because it's not really a choice if the only ideologies and knowledge her kids have learnt were because of her or apps she chose on her iPad)
Quite awful to be a parent like that and shamelessly post it on the internet!
I dont live in a van, but recently, my father quit his job and is now currently living with his parents in England while he "finds" a job (bro is NOT finding a job, bro is just getting drunk every day and using up all my granddads money). Me, my 2 little sisters, and my mom are all here in the Philippines in a one room condo with a small tiny bathroom.
I am about to go to college (i am 18), which i did not get to pick, because me mkm is controlling, and my 2 little sisters are homeschooled. We all HATE it here. Theres one room so we have a bunk bed and i sleep on a bunch of wooden crates. Theres no privacy whatsover, no curtain, nothing. Its horrible. I cant even begin to say how much i hate it here. As soon as i graduate im getting an apartment and moving my siblings out of here
As a homeschooler who has gone to public school, when done right homeschooling is much better. However ive seen people who abuse the privilege and sabotage their child's future
Spanish kid here. In Spain they don't inject things in ur body when you are little so you are all welcome to come to a spanish hospital
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Definitely agree on learning from an ipad but schools are definitely not setting people up for success
as a hindu only babas lock their hair and no other hindu does it is not a common practice 6.50
And this privacy 'blah blah blah'? NO give him a PROPER ROOM
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She’s a good TH-camr, and she’s entertaining, I just don’t completely agree with her views but I’m the one watching her so that’s a me problem
and then these parents will go "why dont you have any friends?" or "why dont you talk to us anymore" to their kids. take a wild guess
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5:51 im german and that’s not true yes we might not do it immediately in the hospital but at least we stay in the hospital to get checked and the baby gets checked as well (we do get vaccinated after birth just not immediately)
If I grew up and realized my parents didn’t want to vaccinate me I would cut contact so fast
Most kids just do it when they turn 18 lol
“I’m sorry you don’t have that relationship with your families, maybe you should work on that”
Me: I love my brother and parents a lot. You know what I also like? Friends, extracurriculars, a nice neighborhood community, and an actual education.
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“Privacy blablablabla” ?!?!
i'm homeschooled and i'm pretty much like everybody else, but i do get pretty lonely and bored at home. BUT, my home was a HOME, not a van lol. i had great parents and a great house and have a social life. a lot of homeschooling families aren't crunchy or weird.
As someone who was forced into the public education system at the tender age of 4, the only things school taught me was that no adult actually gave a shit about kids and the only reason they took that teaching job for was so that they could get a power trip.
Being neurodivergent in the public school system was traumatizing in of in itself and I got little to no real accommodations throughout the years, just teachers shaming me for being neurodivergent before I was diagnosed and teachers pretending to care while refusing to accommodate me after I was diagnosed
rv moms when they say "things like that" because they can't list any other good thing they've done for their kids: 😍😍🥰🥰😘😘
this video is alright but i do not like the way in which you talk about homeschool. you said that it’s a form of child abuse and that homeschool kids turn out weird. i have been homeschooled for a year and loved it. i still had lots of socializing including youth group and church and also friends outside of those places. please don’t crap on homeschooling if you’ve never experienced it.
Like I said, homeschooling is fine if it’s done correctly. Seems like your parents are doing it right. Nadine is traveling full time in a van and her kids have no friends. Her own government said that it’s abusive not me. If you’re happy that’s awesome :)
I might be wrong, but if you've only been homeschooled as a temporary thing and not your entire formative school years (like myself) I don't think you're really who she was talking about, even if she herself didn't think about it. People who have only been temporarily homeschooled have a completely different experience than those who were homeschooled from 1st to 12th grade. You still have had years of public schooling, socializing and time spent with other kids and just people in general. People homeschooled 100% (from my experience) do not have any of that. In my personal experience being homeschooled, I had literally, and I do not exaggerate, zero interaction at all with other children aside from my siblings, until I was 16 and got a part time job. And take my word for it, my life and my siblings lives have been impacted because of it. I can't out words in anyone's mouths, but other people I have met who were homeschooled the way I was seem to be more or less the same. So, I do agree that in most cases, homeschoolers turn out weird.
No hate to you, your experiences are your own and are valid. I just think you aren't who we're referring to when we say that homeschooling is a form of abuse (which I personally believe to be true).
@@myth6931 ok, thanks for your reply . don’t agree with you whatsoever. and i’ve known many people who have also been homeschooled that were and have been homeschooled since their school career started and they are very smart people and very kind and normal. please don’t disregard me as the part of the “us” you’re referring to. and personally, i was happier being homeschooled than in a normal school setting. i had the freedom to take my time on homework and to have a more flexible schedule. but, everyone has their own experiences and im sorry that your homeschooling didn’t benefit you in the right ways and you see it as a form of abuse. it’s really sad to see homeschooling not done the right way and seeing the impacts it can have on people. God made everyone differently, He made everyone to have their own opinions and their own way in which they learn. so i will not disregard your experience because it has clearly impacted you.
I agree with you I grew up from grade 1-12 in homeschool and I loved it my social skills a bit laking yes but I wouldn't trade that I got time with my mom and my siblings that I other wise wouldn't and I'm incredibly close to all of them I grew up in youth group and went on trips with them and I grew up in church learning about God and loving him and there's nothing I can imagine that would make me happier for a childhood