My mom’s dermatologist used to say poison ivy is “all natural.” Her point being all natural means very little other than that it doesn’t contain synthetic ingredients.
Did you know if bees get pollen from poisonous flowers, the honey will contain similar toxins? And even if it's not enough to harm an adult, it can still be lethal to an infant I wonder how many of these crunchy moms are aware of this. Poison is so common in nature.
It's not about the carcinogens. Most of these people either have chemophobia or they are grifters trying to sell you an alternative that they directly benefit financially off (which often also contains the thing they are fear mongering about).
These people would die if you showed them the actual chemical formula of just one molecule in the wall of a human skin cell or, much simpler, a plant like the stem of a dandelion. Chemical formula length doesn't matter it's what it is!
@@iamaunicorn1232 they always talk about "knowing whats in your food" because they dont know what anything on the ingredients list means but if you told them the chemical names of everything that's in an apple they would have an aneurysm
Grandad belived that suncream/sunscreen was a sham. He was also covered in skin cancer in his last year's. After seeing that I vowed that both me and my daughter (who I was pregnant with at the time) would be pro suncream
I feel the people who are anti sunscreen read the article title that stated sunscreen is harmful. The article actually states that while sunscreen does protect and is safe, it lures some people into a false sense of security and they stay in the sun far longer than they should and are not reapplying the sunscreen as often as they should. I think article titles like that should be illegal, it spreads harmful misinformation
@@bambino05but it's up to these grown ass people to actually read the articles instead of skimming them and taking them at face value. In these times, we should all know better by now.
@Nicole-zh7pl oh I totally agree, but stupid people are becoming more and more common. We have packets of nuts that state "may contain nuts" on them these days. People are dumb and while I agree people shouldn't just read a title and think they know everything, we can't rely on that unfortunately
I just had a basal cell carcinoma removed from my face and mom always tried to make sure I was wearing sunscreen....I just tended to burn easy lol. Skin Cancer is the freakin worst though
I wonder how many of the crunchy moms also intersect with the sad beige mom, trade-wife, and cottage-core communities. As FunkyFrogBait once said, they are basically trying to force their kids to cosplay as impoverished pilgrims.
From what I know, she's not as crunchy as she shows in the videos, so yes she is crunchy, but it's not to that extreme, idk if that's true, but also, they have drone shots, a part of it has to be extra, though that copyright strike, is, iffy
Me too! I was still subscribed to her, right up till Kiwi mentioned it, especially the copyright strike. That's always a huge red flag for me, because people are entitled to talk about others who are online. Like, if you're online and have a decent enough presence, clearly it's not a privacy issue, you just don't want anyone to talk bad about you ever, even if it's constructive in some cases. Really, it's just a petty way of making sure that no one even dares to breathe a bad word about you.
@@NerdAlert42 I don't know who the artist is, but the dragon pfp appears to be an IceWing-SandWing hybrid based off a book series called Wings of Fire. Decent series IMO, but the target demographic is teens if you do plan on reading it.
My dad was NEVER allowed to eat fast food as a kid. Like, he had never had McDonald's, KFC, etc. until he was about 17. When he was 17, two things happened: he got his own car, and he got a job and therefore his own money. Between going WAY overboard with fast food and not walking everywhere anymore, he gained 50kg in less than a year. I've also seen so many kids who are never allowed junk food go so wild on food at parties that they make themselves sick. Everything in moderation, but making something taboo just guarantees they're gonna go apesh*t on it at the very first opportunity.
That's similar to my experience, though mine was less dramatic. Young people should be allowed to make choices at home where they have a safety net, rather than adults ruling their lives then expecting them to suddenly be independent at 18.
Why my dad lets 9 year old me try alcohol at parties. In his family as soon as the kids hit puberty they let them take a sip. Except kids nowadays grow earlier, but he just shrugged and said good enough, now let's give you some beer 😂
This. I remember we wasn't allowed to have sweets or chocolate growing up. When I was about 10 I stole some money and I went and bought all the chocolate. No condoning the stealing at all, but the first thing I did was spent it all on chocolate and ate it all. Probably wouldn't have done that if it wasn't wasn't a taboo
It just makes me laugh so hard when they say “sunscreen is poison and the sun is medicine” just because our ancestors lived without it. They also very commonly died of skin cancer until we started covering our skin with actual clothing. These people are insane
not just that, but our ancestors wore make up to try and protect themselves, or wore many layers of clothes even in the summer, wore hats, had fricking trees. like they still covered themselves in a ay or another from the god damn sun. and let s pretend for a minute that we should live like our prehistorical selves; they lived in forests, they had trees EVERYWHERE to protect them, and also they didn t have climate change. how are these ppl so worried about sunscreen but not about CLIMATE CHANGE like what???
Also, our ancestors used sun protection back in the day. A lot of ancient cultures used sun shields or umbrellas to block the sun. Ancient Greeks used olive oil to protect their skin.
@@Hyperlophus exactly! I was talking more like Paleolithic 😭 but yes we have always had sun protection for as long as we have been advanced and even before
@LilChuunosuke Lmao right??? As an autistic person with food hyperfixations, especially on things like chicken nuggets and pizza rolls, I think they'd faint.
My mom was a bordering crunchy mom. She was never anti vax but she did hesitate to take us to the doctor. She once gave me colloidal silver 'medicine' when i had the flu because her friend gave it to her to give to me. She stopped after a few doses because my doctor told her how dangerous it is. But like...i was a child who got sick a lot, who had previously had a bad case of pneumonia, and who had asthma. I shouldve been taken to a doctor immediately because it's genuinely dangerous for me to get the flu.
My mum rarely took me to doctors except essential vaccines. She believed in those people who lived only off the sun. Even if she wouldnt try that herself. She treated our chicken pox with homeopathic sugar balls. And even made a machine to make her own colloidal silver.
Your mom sounds like she was genuinely trying to do what was best for you, the fact that she listened to the doctor and stopped giving you that trash is everything ❤. Crunchy moms trust crunchy moms over doctors
@angiepangie989 True! There are some instances where the crunchiness overpowered her common sense but in this case, she absolutely did the right thing. My mom is smart as hell, she just...idk, I personally think she's more affected by having all of her immediate family having health issues than she's willing to admit. And me being someone with several chronic illnesses seems to just trigger those repressed emotions.
You cannot "healthify" a children's birthday party even going as far as attacking the GRAIN in the CAKE and yet use BUTTERCREAM FROSTING THAT'S LITERALLY PURE BUTTER AND SUGAR BFFR
@@Seafoamworks99 Frr , my mom was a case where it was just straight up medical neglect . I understand if I was fine and she just didn't wanna go to checkups or anything , but there was visible things wrong with my health since I was a baby. and she refused to get me proper help (I think she pretended I didn't have anything wrong)
As I child of a "crunchy mom," all I got was an eating disorder and inability to navigate the health care system. My bipolar and other fun illnesses were attempted to be treated without medication causing long-term side effects. These people are very very real
same. and i also got scoliosis cause my mom refused to listen to my needs(i needed a wheelchair since i was a kid. had to buy one myself now, at 23. i was leaning on people and holding their entire arm so they could carry me so now my spine s fucked. thanks, mom) very natural, very demure oh and of she blamed it on my psychiatric pills cause duuh
Oh how I feel you. Same with the only difference being that my bipolar with psychotic episodes was called a "supernatural ability", "communing with the spirits", "battling demons" and encouraged to the point that I was a complete wreck. Hope you went on to take as good of a care of yourself as you were able and that you continue getting better and better at it♡
@@KristinaVeshtort-Kask My mother also thought my psychosis episodes were me 'communicating with spirits' and seeing them, too.. I'm so sorry you had to go through that stuff, genuinely.
Yay! “Medicine is a crutch at best and poison at worst” “Unless you’re dying, you’re fine” “We can’t drink/eat this because it has poison/fattening/chemical(s)” What are some crunchy statements your moms stated as fact?
The only reason you should triple check the ingredients list is if you/ your kids have an allergy. I have a kiddo allergic to pineapple and kiwi. I check juices and fruit snacks to make sure it's safe.
Allergies also impact your life. But like not doing it is kinda dangerous the other way. I often check ingredients of foods I assume to be vegan because a lot of products don't have the label.
@LadyNutBar Aw your poor baby doesn't get to experience the greatness of tropical fruit salad 🥲 I'm currently 7 months pregnant, and I really hope my son doesn't have any food allergies. His dad and I both LOVE all food, so that would break my heart to not be able to share everything with him lol. How did you find out about the allergies? Can allergic reactions be caused by something only I ate while breastfeeding?
I'm allergic to white fish and my great grandmother always used to order it at restaurants and then got upset that I wouldn't let her kiss/hug me (yes I understand that she was 90 something but she was still living by herself and was mentally fully there so really had no right to complain about me refusing to put myself in danger)
Im a labour and delivery nurse and we are really seeing the impact of this movement. Parents opting out of normal prenatal care like refusing any ultrasounds, refusing to do bloodwork or to be tested for gestational diabetes. Many parents are refusing vitamin K for their babies, and believe that it is basically poison. The sad thing is that the physician doesn’t seem to stand a chance against Instagram and TikTok when it comes to providing medical information. The result of these choices can be tragic and it’s so distressing to watch people make these choices.
This is so heartbreaking to me. I am 30 weeks pregnant after struggling with infertility my entire adult life. It took 2 years of fertility treatment, constant hormone injections, medical appointment after medical appointment, for me to be able to FINALLY conceive. The only thing I want in this world right now is a cold deli meat sandwich, but am I eating that? No, I'm not. Because the risk might be small but it's THERE. I am so saddened by these women who flagrantly disregard scientifically backed medical advice during their pregnancies because they "don't believe in it" or "X makes me feel good so I just do it". Must be nice to be able to be so blasé about pregnancy but we don't all have that luxury and I can't imagine thinking the risk is worth it.
I've always had olive skin and dark hair and I grew up in the northeast US so I rarely wore sunscreen but it wasn't a problem. I live in Florida now and I'm in my 30s and I wear sunscreen every single day. I literally put sunscreen on to drive to work lol Florida sun ain't no joke and now I'm hoping that my solid skincare routine will save me from the past 30 years of neglect 😂😂
Yes! I'm surprised I didn't burn this summer while swimming in the river. I might've gotten a little pink twice but more than anything I got devoured by bugs 😅 I live in West Virginia
Yes! I am also a redhead and I am proudly one of the freaks in sun/UVA & UVB protective clothing, the big hat, and in the shade. I may or may not also own an umbrella just for sun shade on the go…
@@angiepangie989 Yay, over 30 club! I did the opposite where I lived in the south and moved up north. I never realized how reflective snow is until I got super burnt my first winter, including my eyes!
28:21 Tampax is not adding lead to tampons. Tampons are made out of cotton, which is a plant. Plants are full of minerals from the ground which they grow in. The lead found in tampons is from the plant itself, from the ground. It is the same lead that can be found in your vegetables, which you already eat.
Tampax and other companies are adding chemicals to period products to "stop the bleeding faster" which they have been doing for years, this has been proven and has been known (also sorry if i sound harsh that isn't my intent it's just something that's frustrating as many people have been ill due to these harsh chemicals in those products)
Cheap tampons probably have some bad stuff in them, but I’d rather use those in a bind than nothing (or a leaf lol). I normally use a menstrual cup, but I’m sure crunchy mums would tell me I’m exposing my uterus to chemicals from the silicone or something lol
When my sister was little, she asked her pediatrician if it’s true that ramen gives you cancer and the pediatrician just replied by saying everything gives you cancer. While this is a generalization, I think people need to realize that it’s okay to live because everything is technically dangerous but life is better if you acknowledge that but don’t care. Will eating ramen from time to time give me cancer? Maybe, but it tastes good and honestly I could get cancer from going outside for two seconds. Suffering is inevitable so you might as well just enjoy yourself.
Especially if you're in New Zealand according to Kiwi. Finding that out has made NZ a much more dangerous place to Irish heritage, paper-white, glow-in-the-sun me.
It's also important to remember that having a correlation with cancer rates and causing cancer are different things, and people tend to mix them up or treat them like they're the same. Sometimes, it's an accident, and sometimes, it's on purpose to sell a health product that doesn't do anything.
It's funny too because those people are obsessed with cutting off things that MIGHT increase your cancer risk by fraction of a percent while they drive a car, which is much more likely to seriously injure or kill them. If they were actually serious about being crunchy, they'd take public transit.
That was a great reply from the pediatrician, because it’s so true! Everything is potentially toxic, the key is in the dosage. More people need to understand the basics of Toxicology.
My mum was a crunchy mum, I once sneaked out of school to go to the walk in centre because I had a raging UTI that she refused to get treated and just wanted to give me salt baths. Turns out it was left so long that my kidneys were infected and I had to go the hospital. Social services got invol and she got so mad at me
I was one too. I didn't exactly co-sleep with my kid either, but he still doesn't quite sleep throigh the night. I sleep next to him sometimes and no matter how deep I sleep I wake up in the same position I fell asleep in. I didn't do that until he was at least 18 months old though. That said, my cousin is an EMT and he tells some truly horrible stories about babies smothered when they sleep between their parents
@@maniaclaugh that's one more nightmare added to the list. I don't have or plan on having children, but my brain had already cooked up nightmares about accidentally smothering my cats, so I'm sure it's gonna work wonders with this concept
@@KristinaVeshtort-Kask damn. I never wanted kids. So I thought it would not affect me. But I do want pets. I flip flop when I sleep and steal duvet from my partner (who steals it from me). And have to be careful when waking him up as he almost punched me when I woke him up wrong.
Same. My cat knows to vacate the bed when I get in shortly after taking my contacts out. That's her signal for "the human is going to pass out and accidentally kick me or roll over me in that weird, deep-sleep state humans do."
I grew up with a crunchy "mom", but she was my grandmother instead of mom. She was obsessed with Facebook and conspiracy theories, so she was a very paranoid person. She hated the doctor, was anti-vax, homeschooled my sibling and me, forced us on a restrictive diet, and made us take so many weird supplements she'd buy online from weird nutcase conspiracy theorists pretending to be doctors. Yes, they'd whip up random potions in their houses and sell them as "multivitamins" or "magnesium pills" or whatever else she thought we needed. Needless to say, I developed OCD, CPTSD, a possible ED and body image issues! Thanks grandma!
God, that's literally a description of my parents. And godparents. And cousins. Basically everybody from my closer family except for my grandma. Oh and also my mom's best friends daughter ( so obviously my bsf too) and she is also like this and her parents and everyone from her family that I know
And also I'm (I don't even know what actually but definitely not straight) and I don't dress like they would expect a girl to. So with all of them thinking basically that "homosexuality is caused by mass media propaganda", or vax or chemtrails or GMO, and believing in feminine and masculine energy and that you can have an imbalance in them or whatever, I just don't know what to do. They don't know that I am not straight and I don't really dress like I want to when I'm around them but I'm afraid they will figure it out and try to "fix" me. It's just sickening to know that I can't even be myself around my friends bc then my bsf will somehow find out and tell my parents ofc.
Also sorry about the rant in the previous comments, I wanted to ask you a question if that's ok. Have any of those supplements affected your health then or long-term? My parents also make me take them and I'm quite worried ngl😅
@@ŻabaKsiężycowa Sorry for my late response! Firstly, yikes. Being surrounded by people like that sounds like an absolute nightmare. Besides my grandmother, my godmother and her daughter are also pretty crunchy, taking supplements like sea moss. In terms of side effects, I know I developed terrible seasonal allergies that I don't remember having when I was a child. It could be that I just became more sensitive to pollen or somehow the ingredients in the supplements made me more sensitive... I'm trying to figure that out with my doctor.
On co-sleeping, I didn't even let my pets sleep in my bed when they were babies. My puppy and kitten slept in crates in my room until they got bigger because I was afraid to roll over in my sleep and crush them. I cant believe 12 year old me had more common sense to protect a kitten than these adults do with their children.
My mom home-birthed me and my brother... But that's because in my country it is quite common and homebirths are assisted by certified midwifes that know when something is wrong. Also my mom has assisted many births herself. Yet people use my country as the leading example where people homebirth safely all the time, while leaving out the 'having a trained professional around' part lmao
In the USA it’s hard to get a qualified trained professional to attend a home birth so you end up with laypeople doing it frequently without a adequate supply of medications/oxygen/etc. Since most birth will end up fine those people get clients because people are happy with the experience, but when things go wrong they don’t have the training and supplies to help plus are so anti hospital they often don’t call for help. Personally I think birthing centers attached to hospitals should become the norm. My own experience was very medically intensive due to preeclampsia and other complications and the medical team still made me feel respected, great communication and supported
Midwife isn't a protected term in the USA there's people who are licensed and those who don't even have a first aid certificate calling themselves a midwife
Problem is that there's many complications where it doesn't matter at all if you have a qualified person with you unless that person also brings and operation room and surgery crew Plenty things can happen where it's either we operate on you within the next 15mins or your dead - regardless of how skilled the people with you are And good luck getting to the hospital in time if that happens, good news tho the trained personal should be able to save your child
Since I was diagnosed with diabetes, my mom has constantly been like “it’s my fault you have a sweet tooth, I shouldn’t have let you have snack cakes/poptarts in your lunches” and I’m always like “no, I would’ve been worse? I would’ve snuck sweets and gorged on them because I saw other people having them and I couldnt?” Anyway, hearing you say “let kids have fun!” With the fairy bread thing was really cathartic. Absolutely possible to let kids have some sweets without it being bad
I also have to remind her constantly that diabetes is very highly genetic! Like, it runs in my family. I was predisposed to it. I would’ve gotten it later in life even if I had the healthiest diet ever because my metabolism is already ass
@@Joe-iq1bu"There’s no diabetes gene that gets turned on or off to give you type 1. Instead, a bunch of them play a role, including a dozen or so that have the biggest say: the HLA genes. They make proteins your immune system uses to keep you healthy. Since type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease -- your body destroys the cells that make insulin -- it makes sense that HLA genes are front and center" “Type 2 diabetes has a very strong genetic component,” says Jennifer Gilligan, M.D., a Piedmont endocrinologist. Those are just very basic results you get after one Google search. Touch grass for once instead of french kissing it
@@Joe-iq1buWRONG on the genetic part. While i agree, human bodies aren't made for such high volumes of sugars, and eating habits are often passed on to children, type two diabetes has a strong link to genetics. And by link, yes a baby can be born with it, but more important is the predisposition towards it
@@Joe-iq1bu So the world's scientific community is wrong, and you're the leading expert on all science ever? 🤣 Sorry mate, but there IS a genetic component to diabetes. Even organic-only vegans who exercise every day can get it. It was discovered that young individuals with diabetes have autosomal dominant inheritance, and the first maturity-onset diabetes genes were definitively identified in the 1990s. Why are you so insistent on pushing pseudoscience & pretending to be an expert?
Women who are like this over food can actually make it dangerous for people with real food issues. I have to watch gluten & soy (have sensitivities to both after being diagnosed with hashimotos). My husband & I had lunch out one day & I substituted the standard pasta for GF as they offer. We had lunch & went home. Half an hour later, I was itchy as anything, had a rash all over my body & my hands swelled up. He immediately went back & asked about our meal. Turned out our server hadn't put the substitute in on purpose. He'd been dealing with women all day like these crunchy mums so he assumed I was on the 'fad diet' bandwagon. He was actually proud of what he'd done. My husband was furious, as was the manager (we used to eat at this place often). I spent the next 6 weeks flared up. For a week, I even needed help bathing & dressing. It was pure hell. All I could think of was he was just lucky I had sensitivities & not allergies. Stupid fool could have killed someone.
As someone who is deathly allergic to wheat this is my greatest fear and I almost had it happen to me. I went to a restaurant that offered gluten free options and I asked for it but after taking a bite I instantly knew they didn’t substitute so I spit it out and rinsed my mouth and took benedryl but I still broke out in hives and my asthma was horrible for over a week
Also, even the women who weren't allergic or had issues with the food WHY TAMPER WITH WHAT THEY WANT? Not only did this happen, but also that person could have and probably did, disrespect someone's diet, unhealthy diet, yes, but still a diet they want to do, like that adds another level to this, that must have been so frustrating and I hope that person learnt his lesson
that's literally my fear, I am celiac and anytime I ask for something gluten free I make sure to ask again once they bring it out, and even then I feel like someone will not believe me bc of this trend of eating gluten free stuff, it's so frustrating, you cannot enjoy your time out bc you fear for your health. And ofc anyone can choose to follow a different diet even if they don't have allergies, at the same time that's a deliberate choice and it doesn't mess with you if they contaminate it, while we have no choice at all. I often see people choosing those gf option and then eating regular bread in the same meal, or a dessert with gluten, that's why then staff gets frustrated, I have worked in the resturant industry and it takes effort to make those meals safe, so I also know what it feels to go out of your way on a busy night for then to see the same person eating gluten in other dishes. This doesn't mean that you can go and serve different food than what they asked ofc! you never know how you could impact someone's health. Still frustrating from both point of views.
Oh no, you should have taken the admission to an attorney. That is so awful. People who accidentally give me soda with sugar used to be playing with my life before I got a constant glucose monitor. Wait staff have quite serious roles.
Feel like a lot of this is people seeing flaws in capitalism and corporatism put above public health….but not naming capitalism or corporatism and going off a cliff instead of campaigning for change.
to play devils advocate, by the time significant positive changes is made via politics, their kids will already be grown up. So parents wanting "the best" (in their eyes) have to come up with individualistic solutions.
That is part of it but they are massively overreacting as well. Like buying food with fewer additives is good but eating one slice of bread won't kill you. They also don't pay attention to very real dangers like raw milk and sun exposure. Which shows they are delusional too.
Agreed. On a basic level, I understand why these parents are so scared. Because giant food/pharmaceutical companies ARE often super unethical and they DO put low quality or even dangerous ingredients in their products to save money. But at one point in the video, I thought to myself “Wonder how many times this woman has ever bothered to write a letter to her reps about her concerns. Or contributed to an actual public health info campaign instead of just making TikToks to make herself seem smarter than everyone else.” I’m guessing that considering she couldn’t tolerate listening to the news, even for a few minutes, the answer is probably never.
You're spot on. Like 10 years ago back when I got interested in "crunchy" stuff it was much more based in reality. Like hey, they banned BPA but corporations quickly swapped it for BPS which has all the same negative effects but of course a corporation would rather swap to something chemically near identical that's just as harmful vs make a safer product. So that combination of science with knowing corporations put money first leads to a perfectly reasonable stance to avoid plastic when possible. These days though it's just devolved into conspiracy theory nonsense that's not based in science and has zero nuance, it's all so all or nothing. That's why I backed away from the whole crunchy thing a while ago, what drew me to it was science, and now it's over run by a distrust in science. That's the thing that sucks is they used to have some very valid points but any sense they did make has been swept away in their paranoia.
Also, the problem with the "secret lollipop" is more a problem about the "it's our little secret"-part. Because if they learn to keep secrets from mum and dad because a relative told them to, what keeps strangers from telling them the same thing. And that time it probably isn't about a lollipop. Although that crunchy mum probably didn't mean it that way.
Very un-fun fact-most SA, including CSA, is by people already known to the victim. Stranger Danger is of course a good thing to teach kids, but it’s had the unintended effect of implying that non-strangers are safe.
Ten years ago, a couple in New Zealand told me that they no longer burnt because they drank green smoothies, which were full of chlorophyll. So, like, their bodies would photosynthesize or something..? 😂😂
Ya my state is considered safe to drink but the standards for that are so much lower than the states around us and I can taste metal when I drink our tap it makes me feel more dehydrated. I'm fine with other places tap water but I don't trust ours so filters are a necessity
Yep, my hometown had this issue. When they installed all the septic tanks they didn't build proper leach fields. Led to a bunch of e.coli in the groundwater. I grew up with my mom telling me not to drink the tap water but of course I always figured it was just a mom paranoia. Then I took an environmental science class in college and found out nope, this was a very real issue. The city was trying to fix things by moving everyone to a sewer system but it was constantly being voted against by the town due to the cost of converting which like the cost sucked yeah but like our waters overflowing with poop isn't not drinking poop water worth the cost?!?
Amazing point!! I live in Orlando for school and the water here in central Florida is so much worse and gross than the water back home in south west Florida. The four hour difference in a state can really affect the water and it baffled me when I initially moved here. It isn’t amazing in my home city, but it doesn’t taste like chemicals like the water in Orlando. Having a Brita filter is a necessity here.
I would like to add to the "is the stress worth the miniscule better odds later down the line" sentiment. As someone who stressed themselves into a chronic illness (also triggered by genetics, outside factors, ect, ect) no it's not worth it. Large amounts of prolonged stress is proven to trigger health problems that one might already be genetically predisposed too, and no amount of organic eating or chemical-avoidance is going to change that. The stress is not worth it, it might cause bigger problems than the one's your trying to avoid
Yeah stress and a major health event that compounded the stress caused me to develop asthma. I’ve always been predisposed to it and frequently got upper respiratory infections but didn’t need daily meds but now I need meds and a rescue inhaler
a good alternative to co-sleeping if you need that physical and emotional intimate connection time with your child, which my parents did with me and my brother as a kid, is a half an hour to an hour of snuggle time before sending the kids off to sleep in their own rooms. Helps the kids wind down, gives you the bonding time, but still maintains independence and privacy
I used to watch reallyverycrunchy because I thought it was 95% satire and she didn't show her kids faces which I prefer. Then I realised the crunch was strong and so were the weird religious vibes sometimes
Same! I love that she doesn’t show her kids faces. I thought a lot of the skits were very funny, I particularly loved Jason. But listening to their podcast… they are a bit too extreme for me 😅
Yep, I live in NC. One town I lived in 100,000 people got poisoned by DuPont. Now I'm in a town where it was found all the wells (the entire town uses private wells) have been polluted thanks to the comersal farms nearby and the water isn't safe for human or animal consumption. That was shocking and we only found out when we had our well tested, then our neighbors did theirs, and so on. It's horrible
Yeah mine taste metalic so we have a water softner I'm pretty sure we have lead pipes so they have to put loads of minerals in it to stop it from poisoning us
If she drinks raw milk, it's probably safe to assume that anything she makes with dairy (i.e. her ranch dip) is made with raw dairy. I'd be terrified to eat at her house, imagine the lawsuit when someone gets listeria from her recipes.
Ah yes, mine is 50% Facebook 25% crunchy 25% almond Weird mix of kinda antivax but not always, kinda food ingredient obsessed, but not always, a dash of conspiracy, and always a body shamer.
13:45 "it made me feel good so i jsut kept doing it" if a mum who drank alcohol during her pregnancy said that it would be a VERY different conversation, both pose risks to the baby
"plastic tipperware is dangerous" "ew tap water!" Where is her water comeing from?? A plastic bottle? Dose that plastic have magic immunity?? I'm very confused
Not even that, if her water is coming from bottles are those bottles safe? What happened to the dangerous plastic? Like the cognitive dissonance would be wild. I just hope these moms (parents) don't inadvertently push their kids to develop EDs
@@HunterLvyiXIII my mum was very crunchy as a kid due to a miscarriage that caused her to become sceptical of medicen, doctors, the food we eat, "toxins" and more. It led to her developing really bad OCD. It was a nightmare at times. I get that she was keeping us safe the only way she knew how now that I'm older. But when we were liveing with it I walked on eggshells and was very confused.
The way these women brag about how selfish they are/was during pregnancy is disgusting! It just shows you’re putting your wants above your child’s safety. These poor children.
@@professorfoxtrotTofu, seitan, impossible/beyond meats, peanuts, almonds,cashews, pistachios, pine nuts, Brazil nuts, other legumes, lentils, chickpeas, beans, more beans, protein bars, other imitation meats that have protein in them. I've been vegan almost 6 years now and have always gotten enough protein, a well planned vegan diet/lifestyle with supplements for B12 can be done and be even healthier than omnivorous diets.
My mom has been turning crunchy over the past two years. She now firmly believes that the stuff being put in out food causes autism and mental disorders and that "Just stop eating it and you'll get better!"
As an autistic person, I am so sick of people saying that things "cause" autism. It's just a genetic thing. If someone seems to start being autistic, you only just noticed the signs. If someone seems to stop being autistic, that's masking, which means that they feel in danger when they show that they are autistic.
@EoghanDonnelly-m3x I've been showing glaring signs over the past few years and u hate how my mom talks about it like I'm making up excuses or it's something I have to fix or "overcome". Its a good way to make it feel like autistic people are a problem, you know?
As an Australian, my grandma NEVER wore sunscreen, now shes gotten melanomas cut out of her skin almost every month. Shes now a BIG advocate for sunscreen. She will yell at me to wear it even if im just going for a walk in winter. Please please wear sunscreen, even if its not for your sake, but for your families. Nobody wants to see their loved ones have cancers all over their body that needs to be cut out.
I think it's a combination. I think she's poking fun at herself a lot, while also advocating for a crunchy lifestyle. And thats the thing with being crunchy - eaten vegetables and organic, free range meat, minimising plastic use, enjoying nature more, these ARE good for you. Obsessing about it ISN'T. So I'm not sure I agree with kiwi about veryreallycrunchy. I think she's okay, but also, maybe I'm not seeing it. It's good to see a different interpretation
@@AutisticTeai've stopped following after she implied she was antivax and never denied in the comments asking, i used to think the same as you but after that, not so sure she's that good
my mother used to be crunchy but she got into therapy and is improving, there is hope for them but they need to know there's something wrong and how to help it
Orthorexia! Thank you for actually naming it! It needs more attention. My dad is orthorexic and it was so oppressive that i developed a severe ED myself growing up. Its harmful for the person and everyone around them.
I truly believe crunchy moms just make these videos to shame others while trying to make themselves look like are the best parents. Not everyone can afford the organic and natural options
it's definitely part of the eating disorder, as someone with one. you have to have some sense of superiority in order to believe the ridiculous thoughts that come from your own anxiety. like a person without a disorder that's anxious to go on a plane ride or whatever would be a little apprehensive but ultimately understand that it's pretty safe according to stats and everyone around them. someone with disordered thinking would seek out alternative sources to back up their anxiety. like they might read a sketchy article about how planes emit dangerous radiation and that planes will give you cancer and start proudly believing it, because they refuse to believe the anxiety thoughts are unreasonable.
Dear god, the woman proudly stating she ate raw liver while pregnant. Raw liver can be testy at the best of times, you can get flukes (a kind of parasite) from eating raw liver, among many other things, which is bad enough when you're a healthy adult, let alone pregnant! This is not something you should proudly announce to the world but something you should be ashamed of, she endangered her child before they were even born!
Yea, I thought that was strange, too.😭 Because I thought a lot of doctors said that pregnant women aren't supposed to eat raw food? But she is eating raw liver???
maybe next we could just talk about good moms like i feel like there is so much bad info on how to be a mom but it would be actually nice to see some moms doing well
I knew "really very crunchy" gave me bad vibes. Kinda sad, because debunking crunchy and almond parents is what helps me heal some of my issues with food.
my partner literally got 3rd degree burns from sunburn as a kid, had to have skin grafts and had extensive medical care for yearssss, trust me when I say you don't want to experience that, let alone a little kid. Its actually neglect/abuse, like its actually such a sick thing to do and sunburns are totally preventable. Yes we live in Australia so there is even higher risk of *serious* injury.
I grew up in a very "crunchy" community, while I wasn't. I'm excited to see how much crazy I recognize, lol. I grew up with so many crunchy kids, that even today I still sometimes smell certain essential oil combinations and think "Oh! This smells like so and so! And this smells like someone else!" Note to crunchy moms: they still do all the stuff you ban when you aren't there. And because you ban it, they have no sense of moderation. I remember one friend used to drive some of us nuts because all they wanted to do was watch TV on playdates, because they never had it at home. And don't get me started on the junk food and soda.
Omg, I was watching Very crunchy on my timeline for SUCH A LONG TIME before I finally realized she is no better and is telling her audience to go off-grid, home-school, and drink raw milk. I really hate that it took me so long to catch that
I watched "Really Very Crunchy" every once and awhile thinking it was like 90% satire, like she supports some crunchy (organic food, making tons from scratch, thrifting, etc) but mostly joking... Then I saw a recent short where she was joking about spreading chickenpox (a la chicken pox parties of the past), and there was 0 indication anywhere (and I looked!) that this was entirely a joke and you can't do that with something as serious as vaccinating. Not to mention in the video we saw her kids arms and it genuinely looked like bumps from chickenpox. So dangerous, even if it's a joke but I'm worried her kids legit aren't vaccinated. I hope those kiddos don't get shingles when they grow up. Vid was like a week ago titled "Business is Good" Quick edit: In America the chicken pox vaccine is standard, if you're vaccinating your kids here, they're getting vaccinated for chickenpox. Getting chickenpox as a child is safer, my concern is that her kids aren't vaccinated in the first place.
I mean it could have been a joke based on the fact that her children had it. I hope.. But saying like "it's only illegal if I mail them" means she looked into it deep and also tells other people how they can do it. So I fear she may have done it.
My soon to be 11yo hasn't had chickenpox yet, and I'm considering paying for the vaccine (in the UK that one is only offered privately) if she doesn't get it in the next few years. Since she's had COVID restrictions half her school career it makes sense that she avoided it though
The religion/homeschool stuff put me on edge, then the vibes got weirder and the title of the latest podcast is just " you can't tell jokes anymore" but re-worded. I'm done with that channel now.
I was raised in a diabetic household, and I was still allowed to have sweets occasionally. Like a normal ammount, not excessively. We always had the tube freeze pops in our freezer during summer, and I made my Kool-Aid with Splenda. I actually wasn't allowed to have soda bc I was so prone to cavities, and my mom didn't wanna make it worse. We baked a lot and also got mcflurries as an occasional treat. My cousins were raised in an almond mom (I think that's what you'd call it) household. They weren't allowed to have treats often, and most of the time, it was from our grandmother. They were always eating healthy snacks and stuff, and their mom always tried to put them on her diet she was doing.
Did she personally do it though, or is it possible that she has partnered with a company who did it on her behalf? Idk but her podcast looks really professional and like dhe is working with people.
@@AspensLife Eh I stopped watching her after I saw a clip of her podcast about why they're homeschooling their kids. I didn't necessarily agree with their take on the 10yo art teacher "controversy"
25:43 my mom unironically had a homestead, everything was organic and from our farm or our garden . she made everything herself and was way too aware of every ingredient of the stuff she DID buy. she did get cancer. because of the amount of stress my father put her under ! now I make her try disgusting red 40 every so often because she survived and she deserves a little 40
I had a friend who made me feel like the crunchiest person ever because I was sos adamant about sunscreen usage. Her father had skin cancer twice before I met him and was covered in new melanomas. She didn't think she should wear sunscreen because she hadn't gotten it, she would instead use tanning oil. Its been a few years since I spoke to her, I hope she started protecting herself better
29:30 (talking about period products) this is a great point id also like to add that I and a lot of people can't use cups because of our bodies build. I can't use tampons or cups because of a genetic condition I have that makes it not only insanely painful but nearly impossible. taking price (a big factor) out of it there's still reasons some people have to use single use products
It was definitely a bit of an investment at the sfart, but I haven’t had to buy anything period related now in years! Reusable pads/period underwear rocks :) I use a local company and I love supporting a smaller local business that employs only local folks. Treehugger Cloth Pads if anyone is interested.
The cup crazy people don't realise this. My bladder always feels painfully full due to detrusor spasms. Tampons press against it and make it worse. I couldn't imagine putting something as large as a cup up there. I'd be going to the toilet non-stop and voiding nothing! It would be infuriating.
I just *love* how these kinds of nutters have managed to ruin the most healthy of the cooking oils, canola. Yes its still an oil but its not a saturated fat and it has the best balance of omega-3s for cholesterol, vitamins E and K, and plant sterols meaning it can actually benefit your heart, eyes, blood flow, hair, and lower inflammation if used instead of a saturated fat like butter. What do they want to ruin next? Avocados? Still too fatty for ya? Broccoli? Too many micronutrients? Too complicated? Kale? Ok go ahead and ruin that one. Kale sucks.
Kale does not suck when cooked propperly. (coming from northern Germany xD ) But i bet these Crunchy people would find a way to make everything into a bad thing. Maybe to fatty :)
Me and my little brother co-slept with our mom and our dad, and while it wasn’t their fault (we were a poor family, up until I was ten we all shared a room) it set me back in social situations a lot, I wasn’t even able to sleep over at my grandparents house comfortably until I was 12, and I still to this day have bad separation anxiety. Thankfully, my little brother wasn’t nearly as messed up from it as I was, he was five when he got his own room, and he loved spending the night at friends houses and grandparents houses, so in short, it’s a gamble. Don’t do it unless it’s completely necessary.
Why can't someone listen to doctors, take proper medication and vaccinations, AND use home remedies for symptom control? That's what I do. I hate how much home-remedies are associated with anti-medicine crunchy moms.
Right? There is a happy medium. Even my kids pediatricians are very much in the mindset of let's not medicate if we don't have to, don't over react to normal kid things approach. You can do that while still vaccinating your kids and taking them to the doctor when you aren't sure if it's a big deal or not.
My mom was both a crunchy mom and an almond mom. The second my brother and i got our first jobs, we constantly bought treats and had no idea how to control ourselves around them. Seconds after I posted this comment, I got to the part of the video where you talked about your friend having a similar experience.
I've got zero basis for this, but I feel like they're the same, but with different ages of kids. Like a crunchy mom is closer to childbearing, and becomes an almond mom when she has teenagers. 😅 again, I've got zero basis for this, other than my own opinion.
No almond moms are against stuff like carbs and other VITAL food groups Crunchy moms don't like chemicals and stuff (also like to make bread) There definitely is overlap and can be both but they are now one but more
It's kinda funny in a sad way that people like that obsess over carcinogenics but then go in the sun without sunscreen and well worse put their kids in the sun without sunscreen 👁️👄👁️.
A nomad TH-camr I like recently said that people who eat less seed oils don’t get sunburnt. I was shocked and disappointed, after I cackled of course. People really don’t know how the sun works apparently 😂
I think the cosleeping take is a little less black-and-white than indicated. My newborn HAD to sleep on me unless we wanted her body temperature to drop significantly. By the time she was past that point (she was premature) she would not sleep long periods anywhere outside of my bed. We put her in her own bed shortly after she turned one, but we coslept safely! You can do it! They make in-bed cots for newborns and there were zero negative effects.
@@coolchameleon21 they mentioned an in bed cot in their comment, so likely when they were sleeping with their child, the child was in a contained space on the bed.
I follow the safe sleep 7 and cosleep with my son. In the beginning I planned on having him sleep in a bedside bassinet as opposed to fully in the same bed but neither of us ended up getting much sleep that way. About a week in and I was worried that I was going to fall asleep while standing up holding my baby because I was so sleep deprived. It was unsustainable and dangerous. I had someone watch him for a bit so I could get one good nap, then started cosleeping after that. The way you sleep while cosleeping feels different. I'm constantly aware of my baby's presence, position, breathing, etc. I can my baby start to stir before waking up all the way and am able to attend to my babies needs before crying starts. It makes breastfeeding at night much easier (and safer) as well. My baby can roll over, feed then roll back over and go to sleep as opposed to us both getting up and me sitting up and desperately trying to stay awake to avoid accidentally dropping or smothering my infant.
Ive had sun poisoning. Now Everytime i spend extended time in the sun i risk getting poisoned again, and i have a sun allergy. I got it at a concert festival bc the venue didnt allow me to bring sunscreen in or sell it at any concession stands. Had 2nd degree burns all over. Wear your sunscreen.
I had a friend with a crunchy mum. Anytime she would get her hands on some money she would buy chocolate and eat like three bars of it at once. We all looked at her like she was crazy because all of us just ate a few pieces and were done with it. We also didn’t like to stay for breakfast after sleepovers at her house because she didn’t even have normal bread at her house. Everything was always super healthy whole grain no additives at her house. For sweets they gave us muesli bars.
What you said about cosleeping is my exact experience! I was literally diagnosed with separation anxiety and slept with my mom until, well, I think the last time was when I was 17 or 18, and I'm 22. I was recently diagnosed with dependent personality disorder (DPD) by a psychiatrist. We had to cosleep as a baby because there was only one bed, and maybe I didn't get squished by my tiny 110-pound mother, but my god, am I ever attached.
The sprinkles? I really don‘t know how much sense it makes to not allow the sugary sprinkles when you serve your „natural alternative“ on probably processed white bread with zero nutrients 🤯 But we already agreed that crunchy moms don‘t really make sense, so…
as a trans woman, listening to the news can sometimes just be deeply traumatic. I avoid it as a result. Is it the best way to go about it? no, should i be learning about these thigns to fight them instead? yes, but i just cant handle it... its not priveledged when the alternative is practically suicide :x
i m a trans guy, i feel you. we re in this together at least. my little sister is also trans. it s a pleasure to have her around and raise her like my daughter, and make sure she develops as the woman she is destined to be
hey I'm also trans and don't watch the news, because it's an easy way to send me into depressive (and also probably moral ocd, tbh) spiral, but I don't think that's what's going on here in the vid. Difference between wanting space from the news discussing horrible stuff all day, and from plugging your ears to be completely ignorant on purpose
@@a-bird-lover the youtuber said its still deeply privileged to ignore the news, so i was just providing a reason where it can be understandable to want to avoid it that wasn't brought up in the video. I know the situations different.
Hi, cis here but IT'S NOT A TRANS PERSON'S RESPONSIBILITY TO STOP TRANSPHOBES!! The shit they say triggers ME and it's not even about me. Don't worry y'all can sit this one out you have plenty of allies out here fighting hard for you ❤🎉. Love this Florida ally ❤
Yeah, same. My mother left the news on 24/7 as a child and it left me deeply anxious and scarred by it so I avoid it like the plague. I owe nobody my mental health. I was depressed for two decades before reaching a remission, I owe nobody that peace of mind.
As part of the weak teeth squad, I have a relevant story here. I grew up with a slightly crunchy mom. She only let us eat organic food (my childhood grocery store was Whole Foods) and she is still deeply afraid of any and all plastic, but she still believed strongly in vaccines and sunscreen. I had cavities pretty much every time we went to the dentist as a kid, and that only stopped when I started buying my own toothpaste. My mom had always bought us the "all natural, fluoride free" toothpaste, and it turns out that I needed the extra fluoride in both my toothpaste and tap water. It was the one thing that had changed that year and my dentist was very happy to hear it.
Talking about your cosleeping - i had several friends who had the exact same problems with being entirely unable to sleep away from home and they never coslept with their parents so like. It COULD be because you were cosleeping, but you could have also just been one of those people regardless of cosleeping
The crunchy moms who don’t put sunscreen on their kids infuriate me. It’s been proven that one bad skin burn during childhood increases the risk of developing skin cancer later on
fun fact: it's not just moms. my dad acts exactly like this. it's horrible to live with every day. i have to sneak in medicine & shampoo. i never got fully vaxxed for covid and he even refused to wear a mask in a HOSPITAL during the pandemic.
I grew up in a crunchy household here in Aotearoa. We were not allowed any preservatives, or non naturals. We were raised gluten free, dairy free, citrus free, sugar free, and most starches and processed meats were also not allowed. We grew up extremely malnourished. When I was 7, I started stealing lunches from other kids because I was going hungry at lunch (carrot sticks and cucumber slices are NOT lunch). At 11 my friends mum started packing lunches for me in secret. At 12 I tried to go vegetarian and ended up so iron deficient that Ihad to quit sports and almost was hospitalized. Simply cutting out chicken and ground beef was enough to almost kill me. I was not vaccinated until 14. Now as an adult I have a binge eating problem and my body can no longer absorb enough nutrients. I'm ill. My bones are brittle, I'm fat, I'm depressed, and I can never be healthy. Please for the love of god, feed your kids right. Follow the five a day rule, give them three meals per day, make sure their diet is varied. If your kids have allergies, I get it, be careful but at least substitute with something that has the right vitamins and minerals. But if not, let your kids have sandwiches, let your kids eat cake on their birthday, let them eat sausages, vaccinate them. Please for the love of all that is good, feed your kids right. Otherwise, your kids will not survive in the real world. Don't put them in a bubble.
I once was on a party with one mom and her son wasn't allowed any sugar at all. She backed him a special "cake" because he wasn't allowed any normal cake or candy from the candy bar! (They had a candy bar and all the grown ups ate candy but the child couldn't, talk about cruelty). I tried the child "cake" by accident and had a really hard time finishing the piece. It was just like very dense, old and flavorless bread.
As a hippie, I just shake my head at these people. I have an aunt who did not vaccinate her son while he was growing up and uses natural supplements as well as Western medicine, but these women are on a whole other level.
I’m from Florida. WEAR YOUR SUNSCREEN. Almost every adult (30s+) I know has had some form of melanoma or skin cancers. We’re literally the “skin cancer capitol of the world”
Oh really? I'm from Queensland, Australia and I always thought we were. When I was a kid all of the 'wear sunscreen' ads would say that 30% of Queenslanders would get skin cancer at least once in their lifetime. It's scary that there are places with a higher skin cancer level 😅
this always makes me think of the time my dad had this friend when he was 15 who was raised by a HARDCORE vegan crunchy granola mom and when they were hanging out he was so amazed by what a cooked egg looked like after being cracked.
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Always remember that natural doesn't automatically mean better, healthy, or safe. Poisons exist in nature too!
My mom’s dermatologist used to say poison ivy is “all natural.” Her point being all natural means very little other than that it doesn’t contain synthetic ingredients.
Did you know if bees get pollen from poisonous flowers, the honey will contain similar toxins? And even if it's not enough to harm an adult, it can still be lethal to an infant
I wonder how many of these crunchy moms are aware of this. Poison is so common in nature.
Most poisons are naturally occurring
🔥Arsenic🔥
When they found arsenic in rice and recommended not eating it, I threw in the towel. Forget it, I'm eating rice anyway.
I'm baffled by these people being so paranoid about carcinogens at the same time as refusing to wear sunscreen
Same
don't mind the radioactive fireball in the sky THINK ABOUT THE MICROWAVE IT'S DESTROYING FOODS DNA /s
It's not about the carcinogens. Most of these people either have chemophobia or they are grifters trying to sell you an alternative that they directly benefit financially off (which often also contains the thing they are fear mongering about).
I get maybe being worried about some chemical sunscreens. But there are Zinc sunscreens that don’t have any risk.
@@kina8990 Zinc is... zinc is a chemical. Most things are chemicals. Please can everyone learn what a chemical is.
"a bunch of ingredients" yes that is what all things on earth are made of
we are all….
ingredience
These people would die if you showed them the actual chemical formula of just one molecule in the wall of a human skin cell or, much simpler, a plant like the stem of a dandelion. Chemical formula length doesn't matter it's what it is!
@@iamaunicorn1232 they always talk about "knowing whats in your food" because they dont know what anything on the ingredients list means but if you told them the chemical names of everything that's in an apple they would have an aneurysm
@@iamaunicorn1232exactly they’re actually stupid what do they believe their natural stuff is made of???
@@iamaunicorn1232Remember that they were taken in by a satire news article warning about the dangers of "dihydrogen monoxide."
H²0. Water.
"It made me feel good so I just kept doing it" wow...the same reasoning an ex friend of mine used for why she continued to smoke meth while pregnant.
"it makes me feel good so i keep doing it" is almost the worst reasoning ever lmao
Hello-sunscreen wearer here. Diagnosed with melanoma last year and just finished immunotherapy. Wear your sunscreen people!
Grandad belived that suncream/sunscreen was a sham. He was also covered in skin cancer in his last year's. After seeing that I vowed that both me and my daughter (who I was pregnant with at the time) would be pro suncream
I feel the people who are anti sunscreen read the article title that stated sunscreen is harmful. The article actually states that while sunscreen does protect and is safe, it lures some people into a false sense of security and they stay in the sun far longer than they should and are not reapplying the sunscreen as often as they should. I think article titles like that should be illegal, it spreads harmful misinformation
@@bambino05but it's up to these grown ass people to actually read the articles instead of skimming them and taking them at face value. In these times, we should all know better by now.
@Nicole-zh7pl oh I totally agree, but stupid people are becoming more and more common. We have packets of nuts that state "may contain nuts" on them these days. People are dumb and while I agree people shouldn't just read a title and think they know everything, we can't rely on that unfortunately
I just had a basal cell carcinoma removed from my face and mom always tried to make sure I was wearing sunscreen....I just tended to burn easy lol. Skin Cancer is the freakin worst though
I wonder how many of the crunchy moms also intersect with the sad beige mom, trade-wife, and cottage-core communities. As FunkyFrogBait once said, they are basically trying to force their kids to cosplay as impoverished pilgrims.
Impoverished pilgrims 😂😂😂 that was is hilarious! Great line!
im sure the intersect is massive
honestly atp they’re just one big circle with “waldorf” moms included
it's a circle of traditionalism and ignorance
Don't drag cottagecore into this, we don't claim them lmao/lh
When they won't drink tapwater or wear sunscreen because it's too dangerous, but will eat sushi and drink raw milk because it's safe?? Makes sense.
It's like playing Russian roulette with their children's lives and future
to be fair, proper sushi is safe to eat
@@galaxychill9578 but fish have loads of microplastics.
@@galaxychill9578 Fish can have high mercury which isn't a concern in adult bodies but can harm unborn babies
hey bro dont come for sushi lmao tje raw milk thing is insane though theyre all gonna get tuberculosis
finding out that veryreallycrunchy isn't satire has ruined my day lol i loved watching her tiktoks under the impression that they were satire
From what I know, she's not as crunchy as she shows in the videos, so yes she is crunchy, but it's not to that extreme, idk if that's true, but also, they have drone shots, a part of it has to be extra, though that copyright strike, is, iffy
Me too! I was still subscribed to her, right up till Kiwi mentioned it, especially the copyright strike. That's always a huge red flag for me, because people are entitled to talk about others who are online. Like, if you're online and have a decent enough presence, clearly it's not a privacy issue, you just don't want anyone to talk bad about you ever, even if it's constructive in some cases. Really, it's just a petty way of making sure that no one even dares to breathe a bad word about you.
Same, I’m so shocked!! I’ll go unsubscribe but mainly because of the copyright issues
Yeah it's so hard to tell what is realistic depiction of her and what isn't.
Same ! I stumbled upon her videos from time to time and was convinced it was satire !
Why are they called "crunchy moms"? Because you gotta crunch the numbers to see how many of their kids will survive to adulthood.
That's peak dark humour right there.
@@DraidensDeni love your pfp! What's it from? Or who?
@@NerdAlert42 I don't know who the artist is, but the dragon pfp appears to be an IceWing-SandWing hybrid based off a book series called Wings of Fire. Decent series IMO, but the target demographic is teens if you do plan on reading it.
this is THE BEST comment... needs more likes man....
@NerdAlert42 Oh I drew it actually! It's one of my dragon characters
My dad was NEVER allowed to eat fast food as a kid. Like, he had never had McDonald's, KFC, etc. until he was about 17. When he was 17, two things happened: he got his own car, and he got a job and therefore his own money. Between going WAY overboard with fast food and not walking everywhere anymore, he gained 50kg in less than a year. I've also seen so many kids who are never allowed junk food go so wild on food at parties that they make themselves sick. Everything in moderation, but making something taboo just guarantees they're gonna go apesh*t on it at the very first opportunity.
This exactly
This is 100% me and my relationship with food 😅
That's similar to my experience, though mine was less dramatic. Young people should be allowed to make choices at home where they have a safety net, rather than adults ruling their lives then expecting them to suddenly be independent at 18.
Why my dad lets 9 year old me try alcohol at parties. In his family as soon as the kids hit puberty they let them take a sip. Except kids nowadays grow earlier, but he just shrugged and said good enough, now let's give you some beer 😂
This. I remember we wasn't allowed to have sweets or chocolate growing up. When I was about 10 I stole some money and I went and bought all the chocolate. No condoning the stealing at all, but the first thing I did was spent it all on chocolate and ate it all. Probably wouldn't have done that if it wasn't wasn't a taboo
It just makes me laugh so hard when they say “sunscreen is poison and the sun is medicine” just because our ancestors lived without it. They also very commonly died of skin cancer until we started covering our skin with actual clothing. These people are insane
Like yes! The sun is great! It’s naturally antibacterial because of the UV rays and it supplies us with vitamin D, but you can in fact die from it.
not just that, but our ancestors wore make up to try and protect themselves, or wore many layers of clothes even in the summer, wore hats, had fricking trees. like they still covered themselves in a ay or another from the god damn sun. and let s pretend for a minute that we should live like our prehistorical selves; they lived in forests, they had trees EVERYWHERE to protect them, and also they didn t have climate change. how are these ppl so worried about sunscreen but not about CLIMATE CHANGE like what???
Also, our ancestors used sun protection back in the day. A lot of ancient cultures used sun shields or umbrellas to block the sun. Ancient Greeks used olive oil to protect their skin.
@@Hyperlophus exactly! I was talking more like Paleolithic 😭 but yes we have always had sun protection for as long as we have been advanced and even before
@@Hyperlophus are you seriously naive enough to believe olive oil protects skin of the answer is yes please don't have kids
I exclusively lived on custard creams for a month. I'm sure your kid will survive a few doritos occasionally
You a real one
These crunchy moms would faint if they heard the restrictive eating habits of even a single autistic person. 😂
@LilChuunosuke Lmao right??? As an autistic person with food hyperfixations, especially on things like chicken nuggets and pizza rolls, I think they'd faint.
@bambino05 none of you are capable of passing a military PT test 😂 you aren’t proving anything
@@Joe-iq1bunobody's trying to prove anything, friend
My mom was a bordering crunchy mom. She was never anti vax but she did hesitate to take us to the doctor. She once gave me colloidal silver 'medicine' when i had the flu because her friend gave it to her to give to me. She stopped after a few doses because my doctor told her how dangerous it is.
But like...i was a child who got sick a lot, who had previously had a bad case of pneumonia, and who had asthma. I shouldve been taken to a doctor immediately because it's genuinely dangerous for me to get the flu.
shit, how bad is the colloidal silver? my mom used to force that down my throat every day during the pandemic
My mum rarely took me to doctors except essential vaccines.
She believed in those people who lived only off the sun. Even if she wouldnt try that herself.
She treated our chicken pox with homeopathic sugar balls.
And even made a machine to make her own colloidal silver.
@@DHasty silver can only really work as an ointment on infected cuts. and it works by literally strangling the bacteria and preventing it from growing
Your mom sounds like she was genuinely trying to do what was best for you, the fact that she listened to the doctor and stopped giving you that trash is everything ❤. Crunchy moms trust crunchy moms over doctors
@angiepangie989 True! There are some instances where the crunchiness overpowered her common sense but in this case, she absolutely did the right thing. My mom is smart as hell, she just...idk, I personally think she's more affected by having all of her immediate family having health issues than she's willing to admit. And me being someone with several chronic illnesses seems to just trigger those repressed emotions.
You cannot "healthify" a children's birthday party even going as far as attacking the GRAIN in the CAKE and yet use BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
THAT'S LITERALLY PURE BUTTER AND SUGAR BFFR
Same with the “home made ranch”. It’s still saturated fats and salt. No idea why so many people think that homemade” junk food” is somehow healthier.
My mom was basically a crunchy mom- I could have gotten help WAY sooner if she wasn't so against going to the doctor
Same here. My mum was antivax. Now my lungs are damaged from whooping cough and I need an inhaler. I love my mum and she ment well but thanks for that
My mom wasn't even a crunchy mom but she was actively impeding my medical care. I hear you though man. Moms are just a special breed sometimes......
@@Seafoamworks99same! my mom was very medically neglectful but otherwise was amazing
@@Seafoamworks99 Frr , my mom was a case where it was just straight up medical neglect . I understand if I was fine and she just didn't wanna go to checkups or anything , but there was visible things wrong with my health since I was a baby. and she refused to get me proper help (I think she pretended I didn't have anything wrong)
literally same here
As I child of a "crunchy mom," all I got was an eating disorder and inability to navigate the health care system. My bipolar and other fun illnesses were attempted to be treated without medication causing long-term side effects. These people are very very real
same. and i also got scoliosis cause my mom refused to listen to my needs(i needed a wheelchair since i was a kid. had to buy one myself now, at 23. i was leaning on people and holding their entire arm so they could carry me so now my spine s fucked. thanks, mom) very natural, very demure
oh and of she blamed it on my psychiatric pills cause duuh
Oh how I feel you. Same with the only difference being that my bipolar with psychotic episodes was called a "supernatural ability", "communing with the spirits", "battling demons" and encouraged to the point that I was a complete wreck. Hope you went on to take as good of a care of yourself as you were able and that you continue getting better and better at it♡
@@KristinaVeshtort-Kask My mother also thought my psychosis episodes were me 'communicating with spirits' and seeing them, too.. I'm so sorry you had to go through that stuff, genuinely.
@@KristinaVeshtort-Kask no same. I was able to "talk to spirits" instead of needing immediate medical attention
Yay! “Medicine is a crutch at best and poison at worst”
“Unless you’re dying, you’re fine”
“We can’t drink/eat this because it has poison/fattening/chemical(s)”
What are some crunchy statements your moms stated as fact?
The only reason you should triple check the ingredients list is if you/ your kids have an allergy. I have a kiddo allergic to pineapple and kiwi. I check juices and fruit snacks to make sure it's safe.
Allergies also impact your life.
But like not doing it is kinda dangerous the other way.
I often check ingredients of foods I assume to be vegan because a lot of products don't have the label.
@LadyNutBar Aw your poor baby doesn't get to experience the greatness of tropical fruit salad 🥲 I'm currently 7 months pregnant, and I really hope my son doesn't have any food allergies. His dad and I both LOVE all food, so that would break my heart to not be able to share everything with him lol. How did you find out about the allergies? Can allergic reactions be caused by something only I ate while breastfeeding?
This. I’m allergic to two super common things (pepper, as in the entire family) and cinnamon, and you would be stunned at the stuff it sneaks into!
@@sarmajere2866as someone who is allergic to wheat, whey and nuts I feel your pain
I'm allergic to white fish and my great grandmother always used to order it at restaurants and then got upset that I wouldn't let her kiss/hug me (yes I understand that she was 90 something but she was still living by herself and was mentally fully there so really had no right to complain about me refusing to put myself in danger)
Im a labour and delivery nurse and we are really seeing the impact of this movement. Parents opting out of normal prenatal care like refusing any ultrasounds, refusing to do bloodwork or to be tested for gestational diabetes. Many parents are refusing vitamin K for their babies, and believe that it is basically poison. The sad thing is that the physician doesn’t seem to stand a chance against Instagram and TikTok when it comes to providing medical information. The result of these choices can be tragic and it’s so distressing to watch people make these choices.
I never understood denying gestational diabetes testing. Is the drink more dangerous than having GD and leaving it untreated?
@@mariahwheaton4377 People think it’s unnecessary but they don’t understand the risk they are taking.
This is so heartbreaking to me. I am 30 weeks pregnant after struggling with infertility my entire adult life. It took 2 years of fertility treatment, constant hormone injections, medical appointment after medical appointment, for me to be able to FINALLY conceive. The only thing I want in this world right now is a cold deli meat sandwich, but am I eating that? No, I'm not. Because the risk might be small but it's THERE. I am so saddened by these women who flagrantly disregard scientifically backed medical advice during their pregnancies because they "don't believe in it" or "X makes me feel good so I just do it". Must be nice to be able to be so blasé about pregnancy but we don't all have that luxury and I can't imagine thinking the risk is worth it.
As a person with red hair, I have an intense rivalry with the sun. It is, in fact, a deadly laser.
I've always had olive skin and dark hair and I grew up in the northeast US so I rarely wore sunscreen but it wasn't a problem. I live in Florida now and I'm in my 30s and I wear sunscreen every single day. I literally put sunscreen on to drive to work lol Florida sun ain't no joke and now I'm hoping that my solid skincare routine will save me from the past 30 years of neglect 😂😂
Yes! I'm surprised I didn't burn this summer while swimming in the river. I might've gotten a little pink twice but more than anything I got devoured by bugs 😅 I live in West Virginia
Yes! I am also a redhead and I am proudly one of the freaks in sun/UVA & UVB protective clothing, the big hat, and in the shade. I may or may not also own an umbrella just for sun shade on the go…
@@aliciawigren3170 Hell yeah, ginger solidarity! I offer the highest of fives for excellent sun protection.
@@angiepangie989 Yay, over 30 club!
I did the opposite where I lived in the south and moved up north. I never realized how reflective snow is until I got super burnt my first winter, including my eyes!
28:21 Tampax is not adding lead to tampons. Tampons are made out of cotton, which is a plant. Plants are full of minerals from the ground which they grow in. The lead found in tampons is from the plant itself, from the ground. It is the same lead that can be found in your vegetables, which you already eat.
Tampax and other companies are adding chemicals to period products to "stop the bleeding faster" which they have been doing for years, this has been proven and has been known (also sorry if i sound harsh that isn't my intent it's just something that's frustrating as many people have been ill due to these harsh chemicals in those products)
It can also be treated out of things and should be. There should be higher standards on what amount of lead is acceptable in the things we consume.
I always thought the controversy over Tampax was the bleaching of the cotton! Never heard of the lead stuff b4. Wild!
Cheap tampons probably have some bad stuff in them, but I’d rather use those in a bind than nothing (or a leaf lol). I normally use a menstrual cup, but I’m sure crunchy mums would tell me I’m exposing my uterus to chemicals from the silicone or something lol
@katmeowgarcia7189 there were recent tests on tampons and they found lead and arsenic in them.
Very really crunchy copyright striking you was NOT expected.
Stupid
When my sister was little, she asked her pediatrician if it’s true that ramen gives you cancer and the pediatrician just replied by saying everything gives you cancer. While this is a generalization, I think people need to realize that it’s okay to live because everything is technically dangerous but life is better if you acknowledge that but don’t care. Will eating ramen from time to time give me cancer? Maybe, but it tastes good and honestly I could get cancer from going outside for two seconds. Suffering is inevitable so you might as well just enjoy yourself.
Especially if you're in New Zealand according to Kiwi. Finding that out has made NZ a much more dangerous place to Irish heritage, paper-white, glow-in-the-sun me.
It's also important to remember that having a correlation with cancer rates and causing cancer are different things, and people tend to mix them up or treat them like they're the same. Sometimes, it's an accident, and sometimes, it's on purpose to sell a health product that doesn't do anything.
It's funny too because those people are obsessed with cutting off things that MIGHT increase your cancer risk by fraction of a percent while they drive a car, which is much more likely to seriously injure or kill them. If they were actually serious about being crunchy, they'd take public transit.
That was a great reply from the pediatrician, because it’s so true! Everything is potentially toxic, the key is in the dosage. More people need to understand the basics of Toxicology.
Amen!!!
My mum was a crunchy mum, I once sneaked out of school to go to the walk in centre because I had a raging UTI that she refused to get treated and just wanted to give me salt baths. Turns out it was left so long that my kidneys were infected and I had to go the hospital. Social services got invol and she got so mad at me
The idea of cosleeping freaks me out. I’m not a parent and never will be, but I am a rotisserie chicken flopper
I was one too. I didn't exactly co-sleep with my kid either, but he still doesn't quite sleep throigh the night. I sleep next to him sometimes and no matter how deep I sleep I wake up in the same position I fell asleep in. I didn't do that until he was at least 18 months old though.
That said, my cousin is an EMT and he tells some truly horrible stories about babies smothered when they sleep between their parents
@@maniaclaugh that's one more nightmare added to the list. I don't have or plan on having children, but my brain had already cooked up nightmares about accidentally smothering my cats, so I'm sure it's gonna work wonders with this concept
@@KristinaVeshtort-Kask damn. I never wanted kids. So I thought it would not affect me. But I do want pets.
I flip flop when I sleep and steal duvet from my partner (who steals it from me).
And have to be careful when waking him up as he almost punched me when I woke him up wrong.
Ive accidentally rolled onto my cat in my sleep and felt so awful, if she hadnt scratched me i wouldntve even woken up!😢
Same. My cat knows to vacate the bed when I get in shortly after taking my contacts out. That's her signal for "the human is going to pass out and accidentally kick me or roll over me in that weird, deep-sleep state humans do."
It’s like they forget that the average lifespan has more than doubled in the past century.
I grew up with a crunchy "mom", but she was my grandmother instead of mom. She was obsessed with Facebook and conspiracy theories, so she was a very paranoid person. She hated the doctor, was anti-vax, homeschooled my sibling and me, forced us on a restrictive diet, and made us take so many weird supplements she'd buy online from weird nutcase conspiracy theorists pretending to be doctors. Yes, they'd whip up random potions in their houses and sell them as "multivitamins" or "magnesium pills" or whatever else she thought we needed. Needless to say, I developed OCD, CPTSD, a possible ED and body image issues! Thanks grandma!
God, that's literally a description of my parents. And godparents. And cousins. Basically everybody from my closer family except for my grandma. Oh and also my mom's best friends daughter ( so obviously my bsf too) and she is also like this and her parents and everyone from her family that I know
And also I'm (I don't even know what actually but definitely not straight) and I don't dress like they would expect a girl to. So with all of them thinking basically that "homosexuality is caused by mass media propaganda", or vax or chemtrails or GMO, and believing in feminine and masculine energy and that you can have an imbalance in them or whatever, I just don't know what to do. They don't know that I am not straight and I don't really dress like I want to when I'm around them but I'm afraid they will figure it out and try to "fix" me. It's just sickening to know that I can't even be myself around my friends bc then my bsf will somehow find out and tell my parents ofc.
Also sorry about the rant in the previous comments, I wanted to ask you a question if that's ok. Have any of those supplements affected your health then or long-term? My parents also make me take them and I'm quite worried ngl😅
@@ŻabaKsiężycowa Sorry for my late response! Firstly, yikes. Being surrounded by people like that sounds like an absolute nightmare. Besides my grandmother, my godmother and her daughter are also pretty crunchy, taking supplements like sea moss. In terms of side effects, I know I developed terrible seasonal allergies that I don't remember having when I was a child. It could be that I just became more sensitive to pollen or somehow the ingredients in the supplements made me more sensitive... I'm trying to figure that out with my doctor.
On co-sleeping, I didn't even let my pets sleep in my bed when they were babies. My puppy and kitten slept in crates in my room until they got bigger because I was afraid to roll over in my sleep and crush them. I cant believe 12 year old me had more common sense to protect a kitten than these adults do with their children.
They have no excuse, they make safe alternatives that allow your kid to sleep near you. Literally bassinets that attach to the side of the bed.
My mom home-birthed me and my brother... But that's because in my country it is quite common and homebirths are assisted by certified midwifes that know when something is wrong. Also my mom has assisted many births herself. Yet people use my country as the leading example where people homebirth safely all the time, while leaving out the 'having a trained professional around' part lmao
In the USA it’s hard to get a qualified trained professional to attend a home birth so you end up with laypeople doing it frequently without a adequate supply of medications/oxygen/etc. Since most birth will end up fine those people get clients because people are happy with the experience, but when things go wrong they don’t have the training and supplies to help plus are so anti hospital they often don’t call for help.
Personally I think birthing centers attached to hospitals should become the norm.
My own experience was very medically intensive due to preeclampsia and other complications and the medical team still made me feel respected, great communication and supported
Midwife isn't a protected term in the USA there's people who are licensed and those who don't even have a first aid certificate calling themselves a midwife
@@ayajade6683 Yeah so I've heard, but in my country there are at RN-level in terms of education.
@@Roanmonster RN is the lowest level of medical degree it's better than nothing but they need way more qualifications imo
Problem is that there's many complications where it doesn't matter at all if you have a qualified person with you unless that person also brings and operation room and surgery crew
Plenty things can happen where it's either we operate on you within the next 15mins or your dead - regardless of how skilled the people with you are
And good luck getting to the hospital in time if that happens, good news tho the trained personal should be able to save your child
Every time I hear there is a new {BLANK} Mum trend I want to scream. Just. Raise your kids to be normal human beings and go to therapy
Since I was diagnosed with diabetes, my mom has constantly been like “it’s my fault you have a sweet tooth, I shouldn’t have let you have snack cakes/poptarts in your lunches” and I’m always like “no, I would’ve been worse? I would’ve snuck sweets and gorged on them because I saw other people having them and I couldnt?”
Anyway, hearing you say “let kids have fun!” With the fairy bread thing was really cathartic. Absolutely possible to let kids have some sweets without it being bad
I also have to remind her constantly that diabetes is very highly genetic! Like, it runs in my family. I was predisposed to it. I would’ve gotten it later in life even if I had the healthiest diet ever because my metabolism is already ass
@@Joe-iq1bu"There’s no diabetes gene that gets turned on or off to give you type 1. Instead, a bunch of them play a role, including a dozen or so that have the biggest say: the HLA genes. They make proteins your immune system uses to keep you healthy. Since type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease -- your body destroys the cells that make insulin -- it makes sense that HLA genes are front and center"
“Type 2 diabetes has a very strong genetic component,” says Jennifer Gilligan, M.D., a Piedmont endocrinologist.
Those are just very basic results you get after one Google search. Touch grass for once instead of french kissing it
@@Joe-iq1buWRONG on the genetic part. While i agree, human bodies aren't made for such high volumes of sugars, and eating habits are often passed on to children, type two diabetes has a strong link to genetics. And by link, yes a baby can be born with it, but more important is the predisposition towards it
@@Joe-iq1bu So the world's scientific community is wrong, and you're the leading expert on all science ever? 🤣
Sorry mate, but there IS a genetic component to diabetes. Even organic-only vegans who exercise every day can get it.
It was discovered that young individuals with diabetes have autosomal dominant inheritance, and the first maturity-onset diabetes genes were definitively identified in the 1990s.
Why are you so insistent on pushing pseudoscience & pretending to be an expert?
@NerdAlert42 no one is born with type 2. That would be type 1. Type one is genetic. Type 2 is not.
Women who are like this over food can actually make it dangerous for people with real food issues.
I have to watch gluten & soy (have sensitivities to both after being diagnosed with hashimotos). My husband & I had lunch out one day & I substituted the standard pasta for GF as they offer. We had lunch & went home. Half an hour later, I was itchy as anything, had a rash all over my body & my hands swelled up. He immediately went back & asked about our meal.
Turned out our server hadn't put the substitute in on purpose. He'd been dealing with women all day like these crunchy mums so he assumed I was on the 'fad diet' bandwagon. He was actually proud of what he'd done.
My husband was furious, as was the manager (we used to eat at this place often). I spent the next 6 weeks flared up. For a week, I even needed help bathing & dressing. It was pure hell.
All I could think of was he was just lucky I had sensitivities & not allergies. Stupid fool could have killed someone.
As someone who is deathly allergic to wheat this is my greatest fear and I almost had it happen to me. I went to a restaurant that offered gluten free options and I asked for it but after taking a bite I instantly knew they didn’t substitute so I spit it out and rinsed my mouth and took benedryl but I still broke out in hives and my asthma was horrible for over a week
Also, even the women who weren't allergic or had issues with the food WHY TAMPER WITH WHAT THEY WANT? Not only did this happen, but also that person could have and probably did, disrespect someone's diet, unhealthy diet, yes, but still a diet they want to do, like that adds another level to this, that must have been so frustrating and I hope that person learnt his lesson
He admitted he had done it deliberately? -Isn't that classed as assault?
that's literally my fear, I am celiac and anytime I ask for something gluten free I make sure to ask again once they bring it out, and even then I feel like someone will not believe me bc of this trend of eating gluten free stuff, it's so frustrating, you cannot enjoy your time out bc you fear for your health. And ofc anyone can choose to follow a different diet even if they don't have allergies, at the same time that's a deliberate choice and it doesn't mess with you if they contaminate it, while we have no choice at all. I often see people choosing those gf option and then eating regular bread in the same meal, or a dessert with gluten, that's why then staff gets frustrated, I have worked in the resturant industry and it takes effort to make those meals safe, so I also know what it feels to go out of your way on a busy night for then to see the same person eating gluten in other dishes. This doesn't mean that you can go and serve different food than what they asked ofc! you never know how you could impact someone's health. Still frustrating from both point of views.
Oh no, you should have taken the admission to an attorney. That is so awful. People who accidentally give me soda with sugar used to be playing with my life before I got a constant glucose monitor. Wait staff have quite serious roles.
Feel like a lot of this is people seeing flaws in capitalism and corporatism put above public health….but not naming capitalism or corporatism and going off a cliff instead of campaigning for change.
to play devils advocate, by the time significant positive changes is made via politics, their kids will already be grown up. So parents wanting "the best" (in their eyes) have to come up with individualistic solutions.
That is part of it but they are massively overreacting as well. Like buying food with fewer additives is good but eating one slice of bread won't kill you. They also don't pay attention to very real dangers like raw milk and sun exposure. Which shows they are delusional too.
Agreed. On a basic level, I understand why these parents are so scared. Because giant food/pharmaceutical companies ARE often super unethical and they DO put low quality or even dangerous ingredients in their products to save money. But at one point in the video, I thought to myself “Wonder how many times this woman has ever bothered to write a letter to her reps about her concerns. Or contributed to an actual public health info campaign instead of just making TikToks to make herself seem smarter than everyone else.” I’m guessing that considering she couldn’t tolerate listening to the news, even for a few minutes, the answer is probably never.
You're spot on. Like 10 years ago back when I got interested in "crunchy" stuff it was much more based in reality. Like hey, they banned BPA but corporations quickly swapped it for BPS which has all the same negative effects but of course a corporation would rather swap to something chemically near identical that's just as harmful vs make a safer product. So that combination of science with knowing corporations put money first leads to a perfectly reasonable stance to avoid plastic when possible. These days though it's just devolved into conspiracy theory nonsense that's not based in science and has zero nuance, it's all so all or nothing. That's why I backed away from the whole crunchy thing a while ago, what drew me to it was science, and now it's over run by a distrust in science. That's the thing that sucks is they used to have some very valid points but any sense they did make has been swept away in their paranoia.
It's because americans have been condicioned to think every criticism to capitalism is a campaign to insteat devilish evil and scary communism
Also, the problem with the "secret lollipop" is more a problem about the "it's our little secret"-part. Because if they learn to keep secrets from mum and dad because a relative told them to, what keeps strangers from telling them the same thing. And that time it probably isn't about a lollipop.
Although that crunchy mum probably didn't mean it that way.
Very un-fun fact-most SA, including CSA, is by people already known to the victim. Stranger Danger is of course a good thing to teach kids, but it’s had the unintended effect of implying that non-strangers are safe.
Ten years ago, a couple in New Zealand told me that they no longer burnt because they drank green smoothies, which were full of chlorophyll. So, like, their bodies would photosynthesize or something..? 😂😂
Regarding tap water: Some places in the US really don’t have great tap water, so having filters can be super important.
Ya my state is considered safe to drink but the standards for that are so much lower than the states around us and I can taste metal when I drink our tap it makes me feel more dehydrated. I'm fine with other places tap water but I don't trust ours so filters are a necessity
As someone from Michigan... yeah we all remember Flint (also the Detroit water just tastes gross tbh)
Yep, my hometown had this issue. When they installed all the septic tanks they didn't build proper leach fields. Led to a bunch of e.coli in the groundwater. I grew up with my mom telling me not to drink the tap water but of course I always figured it was just a mom paranoia. Then I took an environmental science class in college and found out nope, this was a very real issue. The city was trying to fix things by moving everyone to a sewer system but it was constantly being voted against by the town due to the cost of converting which like the cost sucked yeah but like our waters overflowing with poop isn't not drinking poop water worth the cost?!?
Amazing point!! I live in Orlando for school and the water here in central Florida is so much worse and gross than the water back home in south west Florida. The four hour difference in a state can really affect the water and it baffled me when I initially moved here. It isn’t amazing in my home city, but it doesn’t taste like chemicals like the water in Orlando. Having a Brita filter is a necessity here.
I would like to add to the "is the stress worth the miniscule better odds later down the line" sentiment. As someone who stressed themselves into a chronic illness (also triggered by genetics, outside factors, ect, ect) no it's not worth it. Large amounts of prolonged stress is proven to trigger health problems that one might already be genetically predisposed too, and no amount of organic eating or chemical-avoidance is going to change that. The stress is not worth it, it might cause bigger problems than the one's your trying to avoid
Yeah stress and a major health event that compounded the stress caused me to develop asthma. I’ve always been predisposed to it and frequently got upper respiratory infections but didn’t need daily meds but now I need meds and a rescue inhaler
Stress-induced chronic fatiguer here. Avoid the stress people. It'll ruin your life.
a good alternative to co-sleeping if you need that physical and emotional intimate connection time with your child, which my parents did with me and my brother as a kid, is a half an hour to an hour of snuggle time before sending the kids off to sleep in their own rooms. Helps the kids wind down, gives you the bonding time, but still maintains independence and privacy
I used to watch reallyverycrunchy because I thought it was 95% satire and she didn't show her kids faces which I prefer. Then I realised the crunch was strong and so were the weird religious vibes sometimes
Same, I thought it was a satire of a crunchy mom lol
Same! I love that she doesn’t show her kids faces. I thought a lot of the skits were very funny, I particularly loved Jason. But listening to their podcast… they are a bit too extreme for me 😅
Yerp
7:34 In many parts of the U.S, the tap water just barely passes as consumable and can often taste and smell like eggs and chlorine.
The tap water in my town tastes disgusting. I have a brita filter, it makes the water taste better. But it leaves the fluoride.
i just use a brita filter and call it a day
Plus the lead in some US pipes which yeah not good for you
I'm an avid water bottle user, but I don't live in the US.
Yep, I live in NC. One town I lived in 100,000 people got poisoned by DuPont. Now I'm in a town where it was found all the wells (the entire town uses private wells) have been polluted thanks to the comersal farms nearby and the water isn't safe for human or animal consumption. That was shocking and we only found out when we had our well tested, then our neighbors did theirs, and so on. It's horrible
Yeah mine taste metalic so we have a water softner I'm pretty sure we have lead pipes so they have to put loads of minerals in it to stop it from poisoning us
If she drinks raw milk, it's probably safe to assume that anything she makes with dairy (i.e. her ranch dip) is made with raw dairy. I'd be terrified to eat at her house, imagine the lawsuit when someone gets listeria from her recipes.
Sounds like my mum is
80% almonds
5% crunchy
15% standard
Hah!
Too much standard
Ah yes, mine is
50% Facebook
25% crunchy
25% almond
Weird mix of kinda antivax but not always, kinda food ingredient obsessed, but not always, a dash of conspiracy, and always a body shamer.
13:45 "it made me feel good so i jsut kept doing it" if a mum who drank alcohol during her pregnancy said that it would be a VERY different conversation, both pose risks to the baby
"plastic tipperware is dangerous"
"ew tap water!"
Where is her water comeing from?? A plastic bottle? Dose that plastic have magic immunity??
I'm very confused
Not even that, if her water is coming from bottles are those bottles safe? What happened to the dangerous plastic? Like the cognitive dissonance would be wild. I just hope these moms (parents) don't inadvertently push their kids to develop EDs
@@HunterLvyiXIII my mum was very crunchy as a kid due to a miscarriage that caused her to become sceptical of medicen, doctors, the food we eat, "toxins" and more. It led to her developing really bad OCD. It was a nightmare at times. I get that she was keeping us safe the only way she knew how now that I'm older. But when we were liveing with it I walked on eggshells and was very confused.
Yeah, it is confusing. It doesn't follow any underlying value.
The plastic bottle has no immunity but the water in it does have microplastics. I got my daily dose the other day, while waiting in the heat.
@@MagnoliaPantherWoman I just want to be fully plastic while I'm still young.
You know, save money on botox or plastic surgeries.
The way these women brag about how selfish they are/was during pregnancy is disgusting! It just shows you’re putting your wants above your child’s safety. These poor children.
true!
She eats an animal based diet but is worried about packaged food containing microplastics.
Mmmmk...
Yeah animals will already contain microplastics.
@@tatiana4050It also contains protein that weak vegans don't get.
@@professorfoxtrotTofu, seitan, impossible/beyond meats, peanuts, almonds,cashews, pistachios, pine nuts, Brazil nuts, other legumes, lentils, chickpeas, beans, more beans, protein bars, other imitation meats that have protein in them. I've been vegan almost 6 years now and have always gotten enough protein, a well planned vegan diet/lifestyle with supplements for B12 can be done and be even healthier than omnivorous diets.
She also has issues with tap water. I'm not sure how and what she drinks.
@@eeng17no one asked
My mom has been turning crunchy over the past two years. She now firmly believes that the stuff being put in out food causes autism and mental disorders and that "Just stop eating it and you'll get better!"
As an autistic person, I am so sick of people saying that things "cause" autism. It's just a genetic thing. If someone seems to start being autistic, you only just noticed the signs. If someone seems to stop being autistic, that's masking, which means that they feel in danger when they show that they are autistic.
@EoghanDonnelly-m3x I've been showing glaring signs over the past few years and u hate how my mom talks about it like I'm making up excuses or it's something I have to fix or "overcome". Its a good way to make it feel like autistic people are a problem, you know?
As an Australian, my grandma NEVER wore sunscreen, now shes gotten melanomas cut out of her skin almost every month. Shes now a BIG advocate for sunscreen. She will yell at me to wear it even if im just going for a walk in winter. Please please wear sunscreen, even if its not for your sake, but for your families. Nobody wants to see their loved ones have cancers all over their body that needs to be cut out.
the sun is a deadly laser
not anymore there's a blanket
@@60Envixity06there’s a hole in the blanket 😂😂😂 the Ozone 😂😂
I always thought really very crunchy was all satire
Me too. It's weird to see her content now knowing it's not all satire
@@violetsandbones it still is.
I think it's a combination. I think she's poking fun at herself a lot, while also advocating for a crunchy lifestyle. And thats the thing with being crunchy - eaten vegetables and organic, free range meat, minimising plastic use, enjoying nature more, these ARE good for you. Obsessing about it ISN'T. So I'm not sure I agree with kiwi about veryreallycrunchy. I think she's okay, but also, maybe I'm not seeing it. It's good to see a different interpretation
@@AutisticTeai've stopped following after she implied she was antivax and never denied in the comments asking, i used to think the same as you but after that, not so sure she's that good
@@hello_d_elo oh that does make me question following her, thank you
15:54 ‘it makes it hard to be independent’ bold of you to assume that these people want their children to ever do anything independently
Happy i never had a crunchy mom and instead i just had a broke mom who got what she could get but would still get snacks
this is just yassified abuse
Yassified?
my mother used to be crunchy but she got into therapy and is improving, there is hope for them but they need to know there's something wrong and how to help it
Orthorexia! Thank you for actually naming it! It needs more attention. My dad is orthorexic and it was so oppressive that i developed a severe ED myself growing up. Its harmful for the person and everyone around them.
I truly believe crunchy moms just make these videos to shame others while trying to make themselves look like are the best parents. Not everyone can afford the organic and natural options
This! So much elitism in these videos
it's definitely part of the eating disorder, as someone with one. you have to have some sense of superiority in order to believe the ridiculous thoughts that come from your own anxiety. like a person without a disorder that's anxious to go on a plane ride or whatever would be a little apprehensive but ultimately understand that it's pretty safe according to stats and everyone around them. someone with disordered thinking would seek out alternative sources to back up their anxiety. like they might read a sketchy article about how planes emit dangerous radiation and that planes will give you cancer and start proudly believing it, because they refuse to believe the anxiety thoughts are unreasonable.
Dear god, the woman proudly stating she ate raw liver while pregnant. Raw liver can be testy at the best of times, you can get flukes (a kind of parasite) from eating raw liver, among many other things, which is bad enough when you're a healthy adult, let alone pregnant! This is not something you should proudly announce to the world but something you should be ashamed of, she endangered her child before they were even born!
Yea, I thought that was strange, too.😭 Because I thought a lot of doctors said that pregnant women aren't supposed to eat raw food? But she is eating raw liver???
maybe next we could just talk about good moms like i feel like there is so much bad info on how to be a mom but it would be actually nice to see some moms doing well
I second that.
The thing is there are going to be lots of successful things but they might not work for every family.
@@delphinedelphinedelphine ok but the point is to be uplifting chill
I knew "really very crunchy" gave me bad vibes. Kinda sad, because debunking crunchy and almond parents is what helps me heal some of my issues with food.
my partner literally got 3rd degree burns from sunburn as a kid, had to have skin grafts and had extensive medical care for yearssss, trust me when I say you don't want to experience that, let alone a little kid. Its actually neglect/abuse, like its actually such a sick thing to do and sunburns are totally preventable. Yes we live in Australia so there is even higher risk of *serious* injury.
Oh Australia I was l8ke what he fuck happened
Yea Australia makes sense because ofnthe whole ozone thing
I grew up in a very "crunchy" community, while I wasn't. I'm excited to see how much crazy I recognize, lol. I grew up with so many crunchy kids, that even today I still sometimes smell certain essential oil combinations and think "Oh! This smells like so and so! And this smells like someone else!"
Note to crunchy moms: they still do all the stuff you ban when you aren't there. And because you ban it, they have no sense of moderation. I remember one friend used to drive some of us nuts because all they wanted to do was watch TV on playdates, because they never had it at home. And don't get me started on the junk food and soda.
Omg, I was watching Very crunchy on my timeline for SUCH A LONG TIME before I finally realized she is no better and is telling her audience to go off-grid, home-school, and drink raw milk. I really hate that it took me so long to catch that
35:11 if the mom has an issue with school lasting all day then her mind is gonna be blown when she finds out what work is
I watched "Really Very Crunchy" every once and awhile thinking it was like 90% satire, like she supports some crunchy (organic food, making tons from scratch, thrifting, etc) but mostly joking... Then I saw a recent short where she was joking about spreading chickenpox (a la chicken pox parties of the past), and there was 0 indication anywhere (and I looked!) that this was entirely a joke and you can't do that with something as serious as vaccinating. Not to mention in the video we saw her kids arms and it genuinely looked like bumps from chickenpox. So dangerous, even if it's a joke but I'm worried her kids legit aren't vaccinated. I hope those kiddos don't get shingles when they grow up.
Vid was like a week ago titled "Business is Good"
Quick edit: In America the chicken pox vaccine is standard, if you're vaccinating your kids here, they're getting vaccinated for chickenpox. Getting chickenpox as a child is safer, my concern is that her kids aren't vaccinated in the first place.
I mean it could have been a joke based on the fact that her children had it. I hope..
But saying like "it's only illegal if I mail them" means she looked into it deep and also tells other people how they can do it. So I fear she may have done it.
That’s terrifying
I did watch her for a while also thinking it was mostly satire too
I really liked a lot of content but her recent chickenpox vids really turned me off from her.
My soon to be 11yo hasn't had chickenpox yet, and I'm considering paying for the vaccine (in the UK that one is only offered privately) if she doesn't get it in the next few years. Since she's had COVID restrictions half her school career it makes sense that she avoided it though
The religion/homeschool stuff put me on edge, then the vibes got weirder and the title of the latest podcast is just " you can't tell jokes anymore" but re-worded. I'm done with that channel now.
I was raised in a diabetic household, and I was still allowed to have sweets occasionally. Like a normal ammount, not excessively. We always had the tube freeze pops in our freezer during summer, and I made my Kool-Aid with Splenda. I actually wasn't allowed to have soda bc I was so prone to cavities, and my mom didn't wanna make it worse. We baked a lot and also got mcflurries as an occasional treat. My cousins were raised in an almond mom (I think that's what you'd call it) household. They weren't allowed to have treats often, and most of the time, it was from our grandmother. They were always eating healthy snacks and stuff, and their mom always tried to put them on her diet she was doing.
I watch ReallyVeryCrunchy, I am bummed that she copy struck. Thank you for giving me a different POV.
Same, should I stop watching her? I just think she's funny..
@@AspensLife I am going to keep watching, but now my approach to her content will be a bit different.
Did she personally do it though, or is it possible that she has partnered with a company who did it on her behalf? Idk but her podcast looks really professional and like dhe is working with people.
@@AspensLife
Eh I stopped watching her after I saw a clip of her podcast about why they're homeschooling their kids. I didn't necessarily agree with their take on the 10yo art teacher "controversy"
@@desireeloveros1055could you explain that? I haven’t listened to their podcast and have no idea about whats going on with an art teacher lol
One of my fave things is how people INSIST that "only Americans are against bed sharing with infants". When tons of countries advice against it.
9:27 there are so many documented risks for raw milk too. And no scientifically or even really holistically proven benefit.
25:43
my mom unironically had a homestead, everything was organic and from our farm or our garden . she made everything herself and was way too aware of every ingredient of the stuff she DID buy. she did get cancer. because of the amount of stress my father put her under ! now I make her try disgusting red 40 every so often because she survived and she deserves a little 40
I had a friend who made me feel like the crunchiest person ever because I was sos adamant about sunscreen usage. Her father had skin cancer twice before I met him and was covered in new melanomas. She didn't think she should wear sunscreen because she hadn't gotten it, she would instead use tanning oil. Its been a few years since I spoke to her, I hope she started protecting herself better
29:30 (talking about period products) this is a great point id also like to add that I and a lot of people can't use cups because of our bodies build. I can't use tampons or cups because of a genetic condition I have that makes it not only insanely painful but nearly impossible. taking price (a big factor) out of it there's still reasons some people have to use single use products
If price wasn’t an issue I would own so many reusable period products (the underwear and washable pad inserts)
@@ains7936 exactly
It was definitely a bit of an investment at the sfart, but I haven’t had to buy anything period related now in years! Reusable pads/period underwear rocks :) I use a local company and I love supporting a smaller local business that employs only local folks. Treehugger Cloth Pads if anyone is interested.
The cup crazy people don't realise this. My bladder always feels painfully full due to detrusor spasms. Tampons press against it and make it worse. I couldn't imagine putting something as large as a cup up there. I'd be going to the toilet non-stop and voiding nothing! It would be infuriating.
Getting reusable pads was a game changer!
I just *love* how these kinds of nutters have managed to ruin the most healthy of the cooking oils, canola. Yes its still an oil but its not a saturated fat and it has the best balance of omega-3s for cholesterol, vitamins E and K, and plant sterols meaning it can actually benefit your heart, eyes, blood flow, hair, and lower inflammation if used instead of a saturated fat like butter.
What do they want to ruin next?
Avocados? Still too fatty for ya?
Broccoli? Too many micronutrients? Too complicated?
Kale? Ok go ahead and ruin that one. Kale sucks.
LeanCuisine used to have a kale pizza which was lit af, kale on pizza and kale in wedding soup can stay lol, all other kale is terrible
Kale does not suck when cooked propperly. (coming from northern Germany xD )
But i bet these Crunchy people would find a way to make everything into a bad thing. Maybe to fatty :)
Me and my little brother co-slept with our mom and our dad, and while it wasn’t their fault (we were a poor family, up until I was ten we all shared a room) it set me back in social situations a lot, I wasn’t even able to sleep over at my grandparents house comfortably until I was 12, and I still to this day have bad separation anxiety. Thankfully, my little brother wasn’t nearly as messed up from it as I was, he was five when he got his own room, and he loved spending the night at friends houses and grandparents houses, so in short, it’s a gamble. Don’t do it unless it’s completely necessary.
13:16 “your fucking baby’s gonna burn”
Why can't someone listen to doctors, take proper medication and vaccinations, AND use home remedies for symptom control? That's what I do. I hate how much home-remedies are associated with anti-medicine crunchy moms.
Right? There is a happy medium. Even my kids pediatricians are very much in the mindset of let's not medicate if we don't have to, don't over react to normal kid things approach. You can do that while still vaccinating your kids and taking them to the doctor when you aren't sure if it's a big deal or not.
You are awesome. Crunchy moms seem to be over the top about pretty much everything
My mom was both a crunchy mom and an almond mom. The second my brother and i got our first jobs, we constantly bought treats and had no idea how to control ourselves around them.
Seconds after I posted this comment, I got to the part of the video where you talked about your friend having a similar experience.
I don’t know, they sound to me like almond moms with added flavors and a few extra steps.
I've got zero basis for this, but I feel like they're the same, but with different ages of kids. Like a crunchy mom is closer to childbearing, and becomes an almond mom when she has teenagers. 😅 again, I've got zero basis for this, other than my own opinion.
@@witch_in_a_wheelchair3050 Pokemon evolution!
No almond moms are against stuff like carbs and other VITAL food groups
Crunchy moms don't like chemicals and stuff (also like to make bread)
There definitely is overlap and can be both but they are now one but more
ngl the "healthy fairy bread" sounds kinda good... *as it's own snack*
First I thought she might make actual sprinkles herself. And using the vegetables to make food dye - but nope. These are veggie sprinkles
It's kinda funny in a sad way that people like that obsess over carcinogenics but then go in the sun without sunscreen and well worse put their kids in the sun without sunscreen 👁️👄👁️.
A nomad TH-camr I like recently said that people who eat less seed oils don’t get sunburnt. I was shocked and disappointed, after I cackled of course. People really don’t know how the sun works apparently 😂
babies don’t eat seed oils, they only drink milk and they can get sunburned 😂
I think the cosleeping take is a little less black-and-white than indicated. My newborn HAD to sleep on me unless we wanted her body temperature to drop significantly. By the time she was past that point (she was premature) she would not sleep long periods anywhere outside of my bed. We put her in her own bed shortly after she turned one, but we coslept safely! You can do it! They make in-bed cots for newborns and there were zero negative effects.
If she was that premature that she had to sleep on you wouldn't she be in like the hospital still? Or like warm bottles in crib?
that seems dangerous. what if you roll over in your sleep?
@@coolchameleon21 they mentioned an in bed cot in their comment, so likely when they were sleeping with their child, the child was in a contained space on the bed.
I follow the safe sleep 7 and cosleep with my son. In the beginning I planned on having him sleep in a bedside bassinet as opposed to fully in the same bed but neither of us ended up getting much sleep that way. About a week in and I was worried that I was going to fall asleep while standing up holding my baby because I was so sleep deprived. It was unsustainable and dangerous. I had someone watch him for a bit so I could get one good nap, then started cosleeping after that.
The way you sleep while cosleeping feels different. I'm constantly aware of my baby's presence, position, breathing, etc. I can my baby start to stir before waking up all the way and am able to attend to my babies needs before crying starts. It makes breastfeeding at night much easier (and safer) as well. My baby can roll over, feed then roll back over and go to sleep as opposed to us both getting up and me sitting up and desperately trying to stay awake to avoid accidentally dropping or smothering my infant.
They literally make crib warmers you risked your child's life for no reason and now feel called out as you should
Theres a saying in your family: theres no point on being the healthiest body in the cemetery.
Ive had sun poisoning. Now Everytime i spend extended time in the sun i risk getting poisoned again, and i have a sun allergy. I got it at a concert festival bc the venue didnt allow me to bring sunscreen in or sell it at any concession stands. Had 2nd degree burns all over. Wear your sunscreen.
not putting sunscreen on your kids should be considered child abuse
No, cause that’s a stretch.
Not really, allowing ur child to get sunburned and putting them at a higher risk for skin cancer is neglectful parenting
Okay I was today years old when I learned that very really crunchy is serious about being crunchy
No, she’s still satirical when it comes to extreme crunchy behavior.
@@mariachi3217 she does make fun of some extreme crunchy behaviors but she herself is actually crunchy
I had a friend with a crunchy mum. Anytime she would get her hands on some money she would buy chocolate and eat like three bars of it at once. We all looked at her like she was crazy because all of us just ate a few pieces and were done with it. We also didn’t like to stay for breakfast after sleepovers at her house because she didn’t even have normal bread at her house. Everything was always super healthy whole grain no additives at her house. For sweets they gave us muesli bars.
What you said about cosleeping is my exact experience! I was literally diagnosed with separation anxiety and slept with my mom until, well, I think the last time was when I was 17 or 18, and I'm 22. I was recently diagnosed with dependent personality disorder (DPD) by a psychiatrist. We had to cosleep as a baby because there was only one bed, and maybe I didn't get squished by my tiny 110-pound mother, but my god, am I ever attached.
The sprinkles? I really don‘t know how much sense it makes to not allow the sugary sprinkles when you serve your „natural alternative“ on probably processed white bread with zero nutrients 🤯 But we already agreed that crunchy moms don‘t really make sense, so…
as a trans woman, listening to the news can sometimes just be deeply traumatic. I avoid it as a result. Is it the best way to go about it? no, should i be learning about these thigns to fight them instead? yes, but i just cant handle it... its not priveledged when the alternative is practically suicide :x
i m a trans guy, i feel you. we re in this together at least. my little sister is also trans. it s a pleasure to have her around and raise her like my daughter, and make sure she develops as the woman she is destined to be
hey I'm also trans and don't watch the news, because it's an easy way to send me into depressive (and also probably moral ocd, tbh) spiral, but I don't think that's what's going on here in the vid. Difference between wanting space from the news discussing horrible stuff all day, and from plugging your ears to be completely ignorant on purpose
@@a-bird-lover the youtuber said its still deeply privileged to ignore the news, so i was just providing a reason where it can be understandable to want to avoid it that wasn't brought up in the video. I know the situations different.
Hi, cis here but IT'S NOT A TRANS PERSON'S RESPONSIBILITY TO STOP TRANSPHOBES!! The shit they say triggers ME and it's not even about me. Don't worry y'all can sit this one out you have plenty of allies out here fighting hard for you ❤🎉. Love this Florida ally ❤
Yeah, same. My mother left the news on 24/7 as a child and it left me deeply anxious and scarred by it so I avoid it like the plague.
I owe nobody my mental health. I was depressed for two decades before reaching a remission, I owe nobody that peace of mind.
As part of the weak teeth squad, I have a relevant story here. I grew up with a slightly crunchy mom. She only let us eat organic food (my childhood grocery store was Whole Foods) and she is still deeply afraid of any and all plastic, but she still believed strongly in vaccines and sunscreen. I had cavities pretty much every time we went to the dentist as a kid, and that only stopped when I started buying my own toothpaste. My mom had always bought us the "all natural, fluoride free" toothpaste, and it turns out that I needed the extra fluoride in both my toothpaste and tap water. It was the one thing that had changed that year and my dentist was very happy to hear it.
Talking about your cosleeping - i had several friends who had the exact same problems with being entirely unable to sleep away from home and they never coslept with their parents so like. It COULD be because you were cosleeping, but you could have also just been one of those people regardless of cosleeping
The crunchy moms who don’t put sunscreen on their kids infuriate me. It’s been proven that one bad skin burn during childhood increases the risk of developing skin cancer later on
fun fact: it's not just moms. my dad acts exactly like this. it's horrible to live with every day. i have to sneak in medicine & shampoo. i never got fully vaxxed for covid and he even refused to wear a mask in a HOSPITAL during the pandemic.
praying for u bru
I grew up in a crunchy household here in Aotearoa. We were not allowed any preservatives, or non naturals. We were raised gluten free, dairy free, citrus free, sugar free, and most starches and processed meats were also not allowed. We grew up extremely malnourished. When I was 7, I started stealing lunches from other kids because I was going hungry at lunch (carrot sticks and cucumber slices are NOT lunch). At 11 my friends mum started packing lunches for me in secret. At 12 I tried to go vegetarian and ended up so iron deficient that Ihad to quit sports and almost was hospitalized. Simply cutting out chicken and ground beef was enough to almost kill me. I was not vaccinated until 14. Now as an adult I have a binge eating problem and my body can no longer absorb enough nutrients. I'm ill. My bones are brittle, I'm fat, I'm depressed, and I can never be healthy.
Please for the love of god, feed your kids right. Follow the five a day rule, give them three meals per day, make sure their diet is varied. If your kids have allergies, I get it, be careful but at least substitute with something that has the right vitamins and minerals. But if not, let your kids have sandwiches, let your kids eat cake on their birthday, let them eat sausages, vaccinate them. Please for the love of all that is good, feed your kids right. Otherwise, your kids will not survive in the real world. Don't put them in a bubble.
I once was on a party with one mom and her son wasn't allowed any sugar at all. She backed him a special "cake" because he wasn't allowed any normal cake or candy from the candy bar! (They had a candy bar and all the grown ups ate candy but the child couldn't, talk about cruelty).
I tried the child "cake" by accident and had a really hard time finishing the piece. It was just like very dense, old and flavorless bread.
I didn't know that very really crunchy was serious. Edit* I should have looked her up.
She sounds like it is a joke.
She isn't. She's a little crunchy but her videos are satire about the crazy shit she sees in the crunchy community.
As a hippie, I just shake my head at these people. I have an aunt who did not vaccinate her son while he was growing up and uses natural supplements as well as Western medicine, but these women are on a whole other level.
It's weird how crunchy moms are so worried about food chemicals but they all have an arsenal and the kids all have their own guns. Make it make sense
I’m from Florida. WEAR YOUR SUNSCREEN. Almost every adult (30s+) I know has had some form of melanoma or skin cancers. We’re literally the “skin cancer capitol of the world”
Oh really? I'm from Queensland, Australia and I always thought we were. When I was a kid all of the 'wear sunscreen' ads would say that 30% of Queenslanders would get skin cancer at least once in their lifetime. It's scary that there are places with a higher skin cancer level 😅
this always makes me think of the time my dad had this friend when he was 15 who was raised by a HARDCORE vegan crunchy granola mom and when they were hanging out he was so amazed by what a cooked egg looked like after being cracked.