Bonnie and Joel: Kidses Family Vacation (Part 10)

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Very nice vlog on Pearl Harbor. Their children were very good. I hope Joel shares his love of history with his children. There are likely all kinds of local museums in their area they could visit.
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tratra58 wrote:Very nice vlog on Pearl Harbor. Their children were very good. I hope Joel shares his love of history with his children. There are likely all kinds of local museums in their area they could visit.
I'm guessing most of the local museums are somehow Mormon-centric Image
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When Joel was talking about the book he is reading right now I was expecting an Audible sponsorship to come up next.
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HelloSweetie wrote:
tratra58 wrote:Very nice vlog on Pearl Harbor. Their children were very good. I hope Joel shares his love of history with his children. There are likely all kinds of local museums in their area they could visit.
I'm guessing most of the local museums are somehow Mormon-centric Image
LOL....I love it.

Western US history is interesting with a focus on the pioneers and Mormon settlers:) Perhaps a road trip this summer to see other parts of the US/Canada? I don't know if Bonnie is as interested in this type of vacation?

I was very impressed with their kids good behavior and interest at Pearl Harbor.
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I absolutely loved Olivia when Jennifer gave her the lei to place on the memorial. Her expression was so solemn and almost like she wanted to cry a little. I love these kids, especially her and Cody (Boston's a bit too small) and how empathetic they are. <3
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Haven't seen it. On vacation myself! But I am glad that they treated it with the approval respect.

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They might be the sweetest, most sensitive kids that I've ever seen. I'm not sure if it's in the way they're raised, their personalities, or a combination of the two but they really have the most empathetic little hearts.
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Dang auto correct! That's supposed to be appropriate respect, not approval respect, LOL

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Things like today are why I still like Bonnie and Joel. Like most vloggers, they are fairly traditional, and not exactly safety conscious, but where they differ for me is in how they are able to empathize. When they say they are thankful, I believe it. When they say they are sorry, or sympathetic, I can see it on their faces. I don't feel like it's "put on" like it is with so many other vloggers. If someone needed help on the side of the road, I believe they would stop and help. I believe they could go serve in a foreign country and not behave like assholes calling everything weird and being judgemental. I think they try to be good people, and therefore set a good example and raise good children. I attribute 90% of this to the Hoellein side. I think Jackson is a sensitive little boy, and this is why he seems to thrive when he's with B&J. He just fits in more with them. I hope he spends more time with them in the summer while pregnant Ellie (and Jared) nap and relax.
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RootBeerFloatie wrote:They might be the sweetest, most sensitive kids that I've ever seen. I'm not sure if it's in the way they're raised, their personalities, or a combination of the two but they really have the most empathetic little hearts.
We see Bonnie being emotional. Joel has a good heart always stepping up to help people. I think the kids get it from both parents and upbringing. I guess they rubbed off on Jackson, too.


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Ducklings4 wrote:
RootBeerFloatie wrote:They might be the sweetest, most sensitive kids that I've ever seen. I'm not sure if it's in the way they're raised, their personalities, or a combination of the two but they really have the most empathetic little hearts.
We see Bonnie being emotional. Joel has a good heart always stepping up to help people. I think the kids get it from both parents and upbringing. I guess they rubbed off on Jackson, too.


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I wonder if maybe Jackson spends more time with Bonnie and Joel than we see, and maybe they are rubbing off on him?

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Jun and Keisha are really babysitting a lot so it was nice to give them a shout out in today's vlog. That week went fast with her parents there and it looks like they had a good time. Bonnie is up in subs/views and if you consider they don't always vlog seven days a week/no network/Bonnie doing well with sponsors, they are doing better than E+J. I wonder if Jared ever imaged his in-laws would surpass them with the YouTube business.
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This should be their last week in Hawaii. Do you think there's any way they'll extend their trip? They seem to be enjoying themselves and Bonnie originally wanted the 2 months.
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Feels like they just got there! Will be interesting how they settle back into their home/routine once back.


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Did they rename and reupload the Pearl Harbor vlog? I don't remember it being called "teaching Hawaiis history" and it has only 59K views
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Refrigerator_Light wrote:Did they rename and reupload the Pearl Harbor vlog? I don't remember it being called "teaching Hawaiis history" and it has only 59K views
I wouldn't be surprised if Joel accidentally deleted this vlog and had to upload it again. He has made some technical mistakes in the past.
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tratra58 wrote:
Refrigerator_Light wrote:Did they rename and reupload the Pearl Harbor vlog? I don't remember it being called "teaching Hawaiis history" and it has only 59K views
I wouldn't be surprised if Joel accidentally deleted this vlog and had to upload it again. He has made some technical mistakes in the past.
Could also be a sponsor issue. Maybe "Pearl Harbour" is considered somehow controversial like 9/11 was?
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HelloSweetie wrote:
tratra58 wrote:
Refrigerator_Light wrote:Did they rename and reupload the Pearl Harbor vlog? I don't remember it being called "teaching Hawaiis history" and it has only 59K views
I wouldn't be surprised if Joel accidentally deleted this vlog and had to upload it again. He has made some technical mistakes in the past.
Could also be a sponsor issue. Maybe "Pearl Harbour" is considered somehow controversial like 9/11 was?
I think your answer is more likely to be correct.

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meklops wrote:Confession time: I've been a lurker for an embarrassingly long amount of time.

I'm an elementary school teacher in Logan (really why I follow the Griffiths in the first place) and tbh this whole talk about Cody and Olivia's education is kind of bugging me recently. I obviously understand the concern everyone has for their schooling, but I think a big part of it is that people don't really seem to understand just how different school in Utah is.

Just to be clear, I'm 25, not a Mormon, and grew up in California.

Think of school in Utah as school in the 1950s– not regarding content or the fact that kids used to be beaten back then, but regarding community and social norms. There's no restriction in teachers reprimanding kids, hugging them, having them alone in the classroom after or before class, inviting your group of kids out for ice cream during the summer, giving them junk food or candy as rewards, or parents really ruling what goes on. A lot of my kids skip class several Thursdays and Fridays because they're going to St. George (big baseball there) to watch their older siblings play. Some girls skip class because they're dancing in a competition in Salt Lake.

This doesn't mean school isn't important to them, because I find that to most (yes, even to really traditional mormon families) it really is. Every Monday I have parents practically fight over who is going to volunteer in the classroom and read the kids a story, I've heard moms discuss which books they read to their children, and parents emailing me with cute activities they find on Pinterest or elsewhere.

Yes, they give too much of a crap about church and baseball and "pageants", but kids do just fine in school even when they miss so much of it, because of things like the worksheets Bonnie and Joel are working on with their kids, and because those of us who teach here are much more likely to be happy to stay after school to catch them up. One of my girls is abroad for a couple more days, and I've been emailing her mom links to fun little videos she can use to keep up, and answering doubts her parents have.

Bracing myself to people thinking I'm a fangirl (I'm really not) but I don't know. I fully understand the backlash, because had I stayed in California I would have totally been taken aback as well. But Utah is just... different.

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I live in Utah. While I'm not a teacher I have 4 kids in public school. Maybe that stuff is ok up in Logan (I live right out of SLC) but that's not ok in my school district especially since the increase of teachers being involved with students, they don't allow teachers to be alone

I know for a fact that according to Utah law that parents can only excuse 7 absences in a school year, after that a doctors note is required (that's from an email my son's school sent to notify me that he was absent) I think after that they (the parent) gets a notice from truancy court where they have to appear and explain why their child has excessive absences and usually have to pay a fine. [img]//uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201704 ... ef7994.jpg[/img]

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Just when I was starting to think maybe we'd all been too hard on Jennifer, she gives that weird speech where she tells Olivia she better be good friends with her mom. Maybe it was innocent, but the tone definitely sounded more like she was directing her.

It was cute seeing the kids play in the waves though!
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