SassySassenach wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 1:35 pm
I think this goes back to the whole “miracle unfolding” crap they’ve branded themselves with. How dare any of us suggest that their children have anything “wrong” with them?!
I still think it’s highly suspect that you have four kids born premature who have not had any intervention services. As parents, we want our children to be amazing and it can be a hard pill for some to swallow that their child might need some help. But to ignore those needs for the sake of marketing?? That’s neglect, plain and simple.
And if the Greedturds were to suddenly say “oh, they get help, we just don’t show you”, I would call total BS. They can’t help themselves with showing every part of their boring day.
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The whole miracle, our girls are advanced line is how I got sucked into the alternate reality of the Gardners and wound up wasing hours of my life watching a large number of their old vlogs. I only discovered the Greeds mid last year when they came up in my recommendeds. Saw a couple of vlogs and heard Tyliar spin the line about the girls being premature and the blessed miracle of them having no issues and being advanced for their age. I was puzzled because I could see no evidence of them being advanced (seasoned mum of four here. I do have one child who taught herself to read at age three who was well ahead of other kids back then, but now she is 16 the playing field has levelled somewhat and while she is still above average she isn't as far ahead as she once was PLUS I have a premmie daughter who has struggled her whole life with developmental delays due to her very low birth weight, IUGR and prematurity). I went back and watched old vlogs to try and work out why they were claiming the girls were advanced and miracles due to not needing early intervention.
I could see no evidence of any of the Greed's claims. All I could see were children with obvious delays and parents who were not only in denial of their delays but were denying them access to early intervention. I would rate the Gardner girls as operating on a similarish level to my premmie daughter with developmental delays. Actually, I lie. My developmentally delayed daughter could answer questions with a relevant answer, pronounced words clearly, had lots friends outside the family and was and still is very friendly and sociable. At age four, the differences between my developmentally delayed daughter and her friends were subtle (eg she got tenses of words mixed up, plurals of words were an issue, she struggled with dressing herself and holding a pencil correctly). Her delays weren't obvious to other parents and you needed to be trained professional to spot them. The Gardner girls delays are very obvious and clear.
After shaking my head over the Greeds claims, I googled something about them and YTMD came up in my search results and was so happy to see I'm not the only one who thinks they Greeds are frauds who are damaging their children.