thealiengirlkathryn wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2019 12:31 pm
I feel terrible about Polar but was it really necessary to film all the kids crying? That was a private moment that didn't need to be shared with the internet. Those poor kids.
Is that a normal family thing to ask small children to make the decision to kill the family pet? "Who wants Polar to keep suffering?"......give me a freaking break Johnny. If you really feel the need to include your kids, tell them the decision you have already made and why, then let them voice their feelings. Psychologically manipulating them into announcing their "vote to kill" is despicable. Where I am from, parents are always responsible for life and death decisions of the family members in their care. Euthanizing is also at the recommendation of a vet, not a child.
It all just seems so unbelievably manipulative and solely for dramatic vlog content. I felt particularly bad for Savannah who "made the decision" to euthanize him at home, while all the older kids rightfully refused. I have never seen parents try to pawn off such an emotional and difficult adult responsibility on their kids like these Mormon YT families. 8 Passengers claimed to take a family vote on how to dispose of their dog too, yet their 7/8 yr old still felt angry about the decisions. He wrote his toy pig a letter saying that he would "never kill him". So what is the point of dragging them into a decision that has already been made?
These people seem to have just as little compassion for their children, as they do their pets. Thankfully Az's brain injury wasn't worse, because I could now imagine Johnny lecturing Danielle at his bedside, telling her she had to decide if she was going to pull the plug (camera zooms in to catch tears rolling down her cheeks). I really hope someone is close to setting laws to protect children from being exploited on social media. Vlogs like this remind me that real children (and animals) are being harmed in the filming of these videos......