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ThisIsMeCeej wrote: ↑Sat Nov 30, 2019 6:57 pm
What was with Russell crying over Ruby's broken dish in yesterday's vlog? That was a bit strange...
Yeah I was thinking this also...
I was wondering if he was maybe just overwhelmed by the evening. Having someone new over for dinner can be a stressful thing for someone his age. I remember my parents having guests over once and crying because a wooden spoon broke. It wasn't a big deal, I was just overwhelmed by too many things happening at once. What I did find odd though was that he seemed totally fine until at first then randomly started crying out of nowhere.
He may have been overwhelmed which would explain why he was acting up the whole video with the screaming and flailing because most kids do feel the need to perform (if not hide) when around new people; he was probably tired of this act and that also makes kids emotional. I also think he's just a very sensitive and empathetic kid so he probably was just upset because he knew his mom was upset.
side note: I've always thought Russell was possibly on the autism spectrum (because he possesses many of the same qualities as the autistic kids I've babysat and worked with at a daycare I volunteered at) but he could just be a bit odd because of the way Ruby is, she seems to try and make him and Eve her mini-me's and that often includes the fascination with school and old school play. If anyone has more to add please do
Oh, but Ruby says he _can't_ be autistic, because he talked to construction workers that he didn't know.
Again, not the sharpest knife in the block. She doesn't get that it's a spectrum, and that just because Russell isn't like Dustin Hoffman in Rainman doesn't mean he isn't on the spectrum.
Chad goes hiking in the woods for three months and comes back as a one man Greek Chorus. Chad, "He loves you because he gave you a candy bar?" Damn Chad! Good job! Calling out Ruby and Kevin on all their bullshit behaviors. He might not have come back a man, but he came back with more emotional intelligence that generations of Griffiths/Frankes.
Then Russell imitating how his wife will react to his actions. That's horribly sad and something a six year old should never even consider. I wish those kids could be rescued from their toxic dysfunction.
casual_fan wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 4:33 am
Chad goes hiking in the woods for three months and comes back as a one man Greek Chorus. Chad, "He loves you because he gave you a candy bar?" Damn Chad! Good job! Calling out Ruby and Kevin on all their bullshit behaviors. He might not have come back a man, but he came back with more emotional intelligence that generations of Griffiths/Frankes.
Then Russell imitating how his wife will react to his actions. That's horribly sad and something a six year old should never even consider. I wish those kids could be rescued from their toxic dysfunction.
I laughed out loud at his comment. Priceless. Ruby is such a bullshitter that I'm glad finally someone is seeing through that. Bring it on, Chad!
casual_fan wrote:Chad goes hiking in the woods for three months and comes back as a one man Greek Chorus. Chad, "He loves you because he gave you a candy bar?" Damn Chad! Good job! Calling out Ruby and Kevin on all their bullshit behaviors. He might not have come back a man, but he came back with more emotional intelligence that generations of Griffiths/Frankes.
Then Russell imitating how his wife will react to his actions. That's horribly sad and something a six year old should never even consider. I wish those kids could be rescued from their toxic dysfunction.
I said from the beginning that it might backfire on them. This is hilarious! #freeChad!
I was wondering if he was maybe just overwhelmed by the evening. Having someone new over for dinner can be a stressful thing for someone his age. I remember my parents having guests over once and crying because a wooden spoon broke. It wasn't a big deal, I was just overwhelmed by too many things happening at once. What I did find odd though was that he seemed totally fine until at first then randomly started crying out of nowhere.
He may have been overwhelmed which would explain why he was acting up the whole video with the screaming and flailing because most kids do feel the need to perform (if not hide) when around new people; he was probably tired of this act and that also makes kids emotional. I also think he's just a very sensitive and empathetic kid so he probably was just upset because he knew his mom was upset.
side note: I've always thought Russell was possibly on the autism spectrum (because he possesses many of the same qualities as the autistic kids I've babysat and worked with at a daycare I volunteered at) but he could just be a bit odd because of the way Ruby is, she seems to try and make him and Eve her mini-me's and that often includes the fascination with school and old school play. If anyone has more to add please do
yeah i thought that too with the flailing around etc. he also seems very attuned to ruby's emotions (no idea why... -_-) so i'd imagine it was all just way too much for him.
and yeah, a lot of people have speculated autism with russell and i definitely see where you're coming from. to me though, as someone with adhd (and i've said this before so anyone reading this feel free to skip if i get boring lol) it looks as though ruby & most of the kids have at least some adhd traits, which has a lot of overlap with autism and often gets mistaken for autism - often even by professionals (i'm not at all trying to diagnose here though btw!). so i'd put it down more to that. but since autism isn't a far cry from adhd, i think we're all spotting similar signs lol. he looks to me like he has a lot of sensory difficulties and issues with regulating his emotions to name a couple, bless him. if he does have something going on, i really hope someone picks up on it and teaches ruby and kevin how to help him with it, rather than pressuring him into rollerblading or whatever it was. i think they think that they can just force him to get over it.
ctx2002 wrote:
As the homeowner, Ruby can make a request to Google that it be blurred out. It's easy to do actually.
Not that I don’t think it’s a good idea for a YouTuber to do, but it seems kind of pointless when Ruby has showed the front of their house numerous times and it makes it kind of obvious when it’s the only blurred out one.
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Just what I was thinking: it doesn't do much good to blur it out when it's the only one blurred, and they're always showing the front and inside of the house anyway. It makes it super obvious when it's the only one blurred!
Ruby isn't the sharpest knife in the block, is she?
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I think this change was made within the past 4 months or so. I remember looking at their home earlier this year and it wasn't blurred. I don' know how quickly Google fulfills those requests.
geezlouise_99 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 12:24 pm
Sharis lost 1k on YouTube
Their net worth is 2 million why would it even matter?
I think it's just interesting to note... It's not really very normal to be losing subscribers if you're posting regularly with similar content to what you've been doing. Maybe some people aren't appreciating her passive aggressive instagram stories or actions and words toward her siblings?
geezlouise_99 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 12:24 pmSharis lost 1k on YouTube
At first glance you'd think she bought 1000 subscribers and lost them all, but after looking at other YouTuber profiles on SocialBlade, it looks like there's a problem with subscriber counts across the site.
Omg! My teeth are so white because I gulp down 3 giant glasses of milk with my Oreos a day! She’s gross. Question.. what mother puts herself to bed early before her 6 year old? Ruby is insane! I just want to slap her silly! Obviously Julie doesn’t want to do dance..she wants to do basketball. Ruby wants her to do dance.. selfish clown!
Yeah her whole "it's your choice but you did commit to dancing first"... just let Julie choose Ruby! and while I am at it, it IS lazy that you can't even manage to read to your kids, that you have to hire someone to stay late so they can read to them, that's sad!
Good grief, this woman is unbelievable!!!! As she stands in the kitchen shoving cookies into her mouth, a tutor is sitting in another room with her two youngest reading with them.A powerful mom, would be multi-tasking and doing it all herself! Power moms put their children's needs first! I could not imagine going on to bed and allowing my 2 youngest (under 8?) to put themselves to bed. The only time EVER this would have been done is if I was sick and, only then, would I go to bed before them if dad was around to take my place.
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thenightowl wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 6:47 am
Yeah her whole "it's your choice but you did commit to dancing first"... just let Julie choose Ruby! and while I am at it, it IS lazy that you can't even manage to read to your kids, that you have to hire someone to stay late so they can read to them, that's sad!
That annoyed me so much! “It’s your choice Julie” .. unless you don’t choose what I want. Ugh.. poor Julie looked confused and disappointed. Why even pretend it’s her choice?!
thenightowl wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 6:47 am
Yeah her whole "it's your choice but you did commit to dancing first"... just let Julie choose Ruby! and while I am at it, it IS lazy that you can't even manage to read to your kids, that you have to hire someone to stay late so they can read to them, that's sad!
That annoyed me so much! “It’s your choice Julie” .. unless you don’t choose what I want. Ugh.. poor Julie looked confused and disappointed. Why even pretend it’s her choice?!
Pretending things are the kids' choices is a theme in this family that may be the thing that bothers me the most about them. Especially when she forces the kids to say to the camera that they have a choice in a certain matter. Getting baptized into the church, being on camera, waiting til 16 to date -- these are "choices" they give the kids that come with heavy implications and consequences (such as ostracization from the family) if they don't make the "right" choice. The being on camera one is the worst for me. They are definitely not making that choice for themselves, they know Mother needs Content.
Instead of Uncomfortable Conversations being the title of this vlog it should be Ruby has learnt to delegate everything moms do and likes dipping oreos into milk. Where is Kevin in the evenings?
YTIG60 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 1:08 pm
Instead of Uncomfortable Conversations being the title of this vlog it should be Ruby has learnt to delegate everything moms do and likes dipping oreos into milk. Where is Kevin in the evenings?
He’s probably with his mistress and tells Ruby he’s at the gym...getting SWOLE.
Again this is one of those situations where they expect their kids to make adult decisions rather than teaching them how to make those decisions. Julie is 10 (I think). Ruby said she decided to let Julie do whatever activities she wanted, and what 10 year old wouldn't want to sign up for multiple activities, especially someone like Julie who seems athletic and sociable and seems to understand on some level how crazy her home life is. And it's also pretty normal for a kid not to really think ahead about whether or not those activities would overlap in time.
BUT Ruby and Kevin didn't even bother to check what days things were on?? So lazy and a missed opportunity to teach Julie to make decisions rather than letting it get to a point of "crisis" that she was in the vlog and giving Julie the responsibility to make a decision under pressure (and as many have mentioned, it's not really her decision, but it's clear she is being blamed for the situation she's in. Which is so so confusing as a kid.)
Also noted that the texts she showed from Kevin he said basketball was all or nothing, and Ruby totally wasn't trying to go along with that at all. I don't agree with her attempted compromise. It's clear Julie wants to do basketball and not skip half of the practices for dance. But it's all about Ruby, who "hasn't seen Julie dance yet " after a year and a half that she's been involved. Well... Why not? It's not as if Ruby hasn't had opportunities if she really wanted to see her daughter dance...
ICantEven wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 1:23 pm
Again this is one of those situations where they expect their kids to make adult decisions rather than teaching them how to make those decisions. Julie is 10 (I think). Ruby said she decided to let Julie do whatever activities she wanted, and what 10 year old wouldn't want to sign up for multiple activities, especially someone like Julie who seems athletic and sociable and seems to understand on some level how crazy her home life is. And it's also pretty normal for a kid not to really think ahead about whether or not those activities would overlap in time.
BUT Ruby and Kevin didn't even bother to check what days things were on?? So lazy and a missed opportunity to teach Julie to make decisions rather than letting it get to a point of "crisis" that she was in the vlog and giving Julie the responsibility to make a decision under pressure (and as many have mentioned, it's not really her decision, but it's clear she is being blamed for the situation she's in. Which is so so confusing as a kid.)
Also noted that the texts she showed from Kevin he said basketball was all or nothing, and Ruby totally wasn't trying to go along with that at all. I don't agree with her attempted compromise. It's clear Julie wants to do basketball and not skip half of the practices for dance. But it's all about Ruby, who "hasn't seen Julie dance yet " after a year and a half that she's been involved. Well... Why not? It's not as if Ruby hasn't had opportunities if she really wanted to see her daughter dance...
Not to mention that Ruby is home but the coach has to come to pick up Julie to go to practice. This family must be so annoying to other families and the teams. I knew kids growing up where their parents wouldn't drive them anywhere so my parents were always picking them up and these families always had a lot more money and resources than my family did.