It’s R Life - Part 2: Buying, Lying, and Rudely Replying

[Swiss Miss]

I’m very confused by what Kendall actually does when she “homeschools”. Does she not actually teach the kids? She had NO idea what any of them were working on. She didn’t even know how much “school” they had for the rest of the year. She didn’t even know Brinley’s grades. What does she do????

Hi! This is my first post here. I stopped watching them years ago but still tune in here occasionally for the snark. So my information might be out of date.

The four elder Rich children supposedly used a curriculum called The Good and the Beautiful. It's a language arts curriculum that also contains a bit of art history, studio art and geography. It's sort of religious, if you think of religion as "let's all be good people" and "let's be grateful for the wonderful things God's given us especially nature". There's no actual scripture or prostletizing in it as far as I can see. The company is owned by a Mormon woman who felt a spiritual calling to start a super wholesome education company. Academically, it has a reputation for being above grade level.

So not throwing shade at the curriculum at all. My own family uses it along with a number of other resources and I feel that we've made a lot of progress with it.

However... My impression many years ago was that the Riches did not use the curriculum correctly. There are 120 lessons per level. Each of these lessons has a direct instruction component, meaning that a parent or an older sibling is meant to work with the child individually for somewhere between twenty and forty minutes each day. These lessons also contain some sort of flash card/word list review, anywhere from one to three silent reading tasks, and an independent study study section that sometimes contains a pretty lengthy and challenging projects. When I used to watch this family, it seemed to me that the older kids weren't getting any direct instruction or doing any of the independent reading. I never saw a book, a bookshelf, a library card or even a fashion magazine in that house ever. Nor did I ever see a word list, a flash card or any evidence of any kind of project. What I did see were the kids working independently in the workbook speeding through several lessons in a single sitting. I believe that they were only doing a very small fraction of each lesson with little to no accountability over the course of a few weeks and then calling it a school year. And the reason for this, I believe, is that certain states will allow parents to put together a portfolio of a child's written work in lieu of testing to show sufficient academic progress. KD were probably just ripping out these pages and slapping them in a binder at last minute.

And, yeah, the kids are more than just behind. When I stopped watching them EV was maybe in eighth grade and Brinn was in fifth and they were doing challenges. Brinn was having trouble with the kindergarten/first grade sight words on her Bob Ross t-shirt and EV was playing hangman with about the proficiency of a third grader. Kapri was having trouble forming letters.

For math, I think Kendal said that they use Spectrum which is just a $10 workbook on Amazon. When I perused it, I felt that it was sort of a quick and dirty survey of grade levelish math. The sole purpose of it is just to create fodder for the evaluation portfolio.

As far as I know, the family doesn't do any sort of social studies, science or elective.

The truly sad thing is that KD really don't care. It took me a hot minute to Google homeschooling in Florida. Apparently, if they opt out of schooling for Hampton, they could get something like $10k from the state to pay for private lessons and therapy for him. Also the girls could get a fat grant for the state university if they do a certain number of volunteer hours while in high school.

But yeah, Disney's more important. I stopped watching when I realized that with their stellar academic preparation, sparkling personalities and excellent mental health we're basically watching these kids being set up to be exploited for the rest of their lives. From your comments, I see that EV has claimed dibs on the explicit photo market.

Hi and welcome. Thanks for the schooling insight. I get the impression they ‘do school’ just to ‘do school’ without any aspirations to reach a decent standard of education. If Hampton isn’t going to school and they’ve actually received 10k from the state for therapy, it must have been spent on retail therapy because the child saw none of it. I wonder if the count unpaid vlog appearances as ‘volunteer hours’ towards receiving a college grant. Those children will struggle in the future. It’s sad

[Swiss Miss]

There’s so many things wrong with this jealously thing Kendal posted and keeps saying. So if a murder murders someone and I call them a psychopath who doesn’t belong on this earth than I am jealous of said murder?

And if someone does something bad like lying and I talk bad about liar because lying is wrong than I am some how jealous of said lair?

You say bad things about people’s lifestyles because you don’t want to be like them. You are the farthest thing from being jealous.

You could also just not like someone and strive not to be like them and critique them on how to be better.

When you talk mean about someone and judge them it’s because you don’t want to be anything like them. You have a problem with the way they live or are because you would see that lifestyle or personality trait as irritating for yourself.

Why do I feel like Kendal is projecting her own jealously on to us? Like normal people don’t feel constantly jealous and obsess over jealously. It’s the people who talk about jealous who think about it a lot. We do obsess over trying to make the world a better place. It’s not like we want to be like the people we think are making the world a worse place. We just want them to change for the better.

Yep….fully on board here. She must be jealous of us! Because I sure as hell am not jealous of them or anything they do! They’ve no substance in their lives. They inhabit a house rather than live in a home. Their kids seem to have no future prospects in terms of becoming independent. They’ve a special needs child who will need to live with them forever because they aren’t even giving him a fighting chance to become independent. They’re struggling financially. The parents have no real friends. Their social lives revolve around cheer competitions. They can’t cook (again, putting chicken and pre-made sauce from a jar in the crockpot isn’t cooking! I am sooooo far from jealous

[disgruntled_pelican]

I’m very confused by what Kendall actually does when she “homeschools”. Does she not actually teach the kids? She had NO idea what any of them were working on. She didn’t even know how much “school” they had for the rest of the year. She didn’t even know Brinley’s grades. What does she do????

Hi! This is my first post here. I stopped watching them years ago but still tune in here occasionally for the snark. So my information might be out of date.

The four elder Rich children supposedly used a curriculum called The Good and the Beautiful. It's a language arts curriculum that also contains a bit of art history, studio art and geography. It's sort of religious, if you think of religion as "let's all be good people" and "let's be grateful for the wonderful things God's given us especially nature". There's no actual scripture or prostletizing in it as far as I can see. The company is owned by a Mormon woman who felt a spiritual calling to start a super wholesome education company. Academically, it has a reputation for being above grade level.

So not throwing shade at the curriculum at all. My own family uses it along with a number of other resources and I feel that we've made a lot of progress with it.

However... My impression many years ago was that the Riches did not use the curriculum correctly. There are 120 lessons per level. Each of these lessons has a direct instruction component, meaning that a parent or an older sibling is meant to work with the child individually for somewhere between twenty and forty minutes each day. These lessons also contain some sort of flash card/word list review, anywhere from one to three silent reading tasks, and an independent study study section that sometimes contains a pretty lengthy and challenging projects. When I used to watch this family, it seemed to me that the older kids weren't getting any direct instruction or doing any of the independent reading. I never saw a book, a bookshelf, a library card or even a fashion magazine in that house ever. Nor did I ever see a word list, a flash card or any evidence of any kind of project. What I did see were the kids working independently in the workbook speeding through several lessons in a single sitting. I believe that they were only doing a very small fraction of each lesson with little to no accountability over the course of a few weeks and then calling it a school year. And the reason for this, I believe, is that certain states will allow parents to put together a portfolio of a child's written work in lieu of testing to show sufficient academic progress. KD were probably just ripping out these pages and slapping them in a binder at last minute.

And, yeah, the kids are more than just behind. When I stopped watching them EV was maybe in eighth grade and Brinn was in fifth and they were doing challenges. Brinn was having trouble with the kindergarten/first grade sight words on her Bob Ross t-shirt and EV was playing hangman with about the proficiency of a third grader. Kapri was having trouble forming letters.

For math, I think Kendal said that they use Spectrum which is just a $10 workbook on Amazon. When I perused it, I felt that it was sort of a quick and dirty survey of grade levelish math. The sole purpose of it is just to create fodder for the evaluation portfolio.

As far as I know, the family doesn't do any sort of social studies, science or elective.

The truly sad thing is that KD really don't care. It took me a hot minute to Google homeschooling in Florida. Apparently, if they opt out of schooling for Hampton, they could get something like $10k from the state to pay for private lessons and therapy for him. Also the girls could get a fat grant for the state university if they do a certain number of volunteer hours while in high school.

But yeah, Disney's more important. I stopped watching when I realized that with their stellar academic preparation, sparkling personalities and excellent mental health we're basically watching these kids being set up to be exploited for the rest of their lives. From your comments, I see that EV has claimed dibs on the explicit photo market.

This is such great info!! It’s very obvious that neither Kendal or Daniel care about an education. I’m not sure what they think will happen to the girls once they are out of school. They have no life skills whatsoever. Do they think they’ll cheer for the rest of their lives? At one point Kendal said the girls will take over the family YouTube channel….which is laughable.

For more context here’s what it takes to get evaluated as a homeschooled student in Florida. You just have to show proof of your work. No tests, no quizzes, no projects, no presentations, no book reports. NOTHING but a “portfolio”‘of work that can easily be manipulated by a parent (something Kenny would def do) to show your proficiency in your grade level. and we’re supposed to believe the girls get straight As? EV doing anything about basic arithmetic is a joke.

[dmfthe2]

At least Evie's being up front with her motives but it doesnt make her look good, she should've just asked if someone wanted to be her gym buddy & then pick one who has a car.

[NovaOvaOwl]

Evie is so conceited I just can’t with this girl anymore. I can’t watch her TikToks or instagram anymore it’s just annoying. Evie would be that person in a movie who just can’t stop looking in the mirror at themselves and thinks they are more important than the rest. When did she become so self-obsessed?

[Southern_walker]

Checked Kendal’s Instagram stories— shocker!! She’s back at Disney. Her kids must be beyond sick of it, especially Brin and Evie. Going as often as they do, I don’t see how it’s special to go there anymore. I’d be totally numb to Disney if I were them.

No word on any jobs applied for or gotten.. wonder if they’re struggling to find one. I know it’s only been a week, but they were likely thinking about it for a while before making a video on it. I wonder what’s going on.

[Glass Half Full]

At least Evie's being up front with her motives but it doesnt make her look good, she should've just asked if someone wanted to be her gym buddy & then pick one who has a car.

So now she wants to go work out in a gym? Here’s the thing..gyms cost money. And the Rich family doesn’t have money. She lives in a gated community with a community pool. I’ll be willing to bet my life that there’s also a gym in the club house. And this can be used for free by all residents. So, why would Evie need someone to drive her there. Doesn’t she have legs? Or a bike?

[Glass Half Full]

Checked Kendal’s Instagram stories— shocker!! She’s back at Disney. Her kids must be beyond sick of it, especially Brin and Evie. Going as often as they do, I don’t see how it’s special to go there anymore. I’d be totally numb to Disney if I were them.

No word on any jobs applied for or gotten.. wonder if they’re struggling to find one. I know it’s only been a week, but they were likely thinking about it for a while before making a video on it. I wonder what’s going on.

It seems she’s only at Disney with Brinley and Kapri. For sure Evie was at the beach with her friends. I’ll bet Daniel is also at ho e with the boys. But you’re right. They must be so over Disney at this stage.

[Kitkat1023]

Dad Challenge:

[lemonquisha]

At least Evie's being up front with her motives but it doesnt make her look good, she should've just asked if someone wanted to be her gym buddy & then pick one who has a car.

So now she wants to go work out in a gym? Here’s the thing..gyms cost money. And the Rich family doesn’t have money. She lives in a gated community with a community pool. I’ll be willing to bet my life that there’s also a gym in the club house. And this can be used for free by all residents. So, why would Evie need someone to drive her there. Doesn’t she have legs? Or a bike?

She doesn’t want it to be able to be convenient for Kendal to ‘pop in’ and visit her when she doesn’t want her there so she purposefully wants to go to a gym outside of the neighborhood.
Or shes just being lazy and doesn’t want to walk the 20 minutes to the homeowners association amenities building. I checked online, their neighborhood is listed as having a ‘well equipped fitness center’ so you’re right about that!

[NovaOvaOwl]

Did you guys here what Kendal said? She said why do guy tell secrets when you tell them to keep it secret and mean girls are creating rumors and being super mean. I feel like if this were about Evie we would see some post about her crying.
A. Evie stayed home because she is having mean girl drama

B. Kendal took Brin and Kapri to Disneyland to make them feel better about the mean girl problem.

I think this is about Kapri or Brin because why else would they have a sudden trip Disney. Whenever I had girl problems my mom would always take me somewhere to get my mind off of it. I doubt she would have left Evie alone if she was having girl problems.

[Seri0usly]

Hi and welcome. Thanks for the schooling insight. I get the impression they ‘do school’ just to ‘do school’ without any aspirations to reach a decent standard of education. If Hampton isn’t going to school and they’ve actually received 10k from the state for therapy, it must have been spent on retail therapy because the child saw none of it. I wonder if the count unpaid vlog appearances as ‘volunteer hours’ towards receiving a college grant. Those children will struggle in the future. It’s sad

Part of homeschooling culture is this idea that WE are responsible for our children's education not outside entities. So this really isn't about the lax standards in Florida or being accountable to an authority. It's about KD not honoring their INHERENT responsibility to their kids.

I don't think KD know about the voucher program for Hampton or the educational grant available to Florida highschool students who volunteer. I stopped watching before EV's ill fated stint with that online public charter high school, but I'm guessing it happened because they KD didn't know that FL homeschoolers can just print their own diplomas/transcripts and legally it's equivalent to any public high school diploma/transcript. If they are struggling that much with the basic legalities of homeschooling then chances are they know little to nothing about the opportunities available to them.

I'm guessing that they aren't part of any homeschooling groups, right? So they wouldn't even be able to rely on word of mouth. It's not like all of those librarians they hang out with are going to let anything slip. And they are too cool for the conventions or any sort of co-op.

[Southern_walker]

Kendal was super charged up on Instagram stories tonight. There’s definitely some sh** going down in the land of the Kendal. I assume it’s with Evie, since she’s the oldest and has the most drama, but who knows?! She sounded freshly pissed, so clearly something happened just today. She was ranting about how she’s fed up with "mean girls" who spread rumors and info they shouldn’t be spreading behind people’s backs, and people who start drama and stuff. She especially kept repeating the word "jealousy."

As we’ve talked about, one of Kendal’s major problems are that she just assumes that if someone criticizes her, Evie, or whoever, that must mean they’re jealous. That’s so far from the truth. It COULD be true, but often criticism does NOT equal jealousy at all. For example, you have a parent who’s abusive. You sh** talk them, say you’ll never be like them, and will be much better. Obviously the sh** talker doesn’t want to be like the abuser, and that’s FAR from jealousy. It’s got nothing to do with wanting what the abuser has.
Another example, a girl bullies other girls at school and people talk about how mean she is and to steer clear. People giving others the heads up to not get involved with the bully don’t want to BE like the bully. It’s got nothing to do with what the bully has or what she looks like. It’s just the "sh** talkers" trying to look out for others.

I feel like Kendal’s automatic jump to jealousy is what keeps her angry. While she keeps saying it, in her head, she struggles to fit the puzzle together with that conclusion. I feel like she knows there’s no real evidence of being jealous (like wanting to look like EV, etc) and she uses it to calm herself down and put herself or Evie on top of the situation. Saying someone is just jealous that they aren’t like them easily dismisses the criticism. With Kendal, I don’t think it’s working. She doesn’t seem to truly believe herself, shown by the "thought dumping" and rambling.

Also, it’s such a self-centered way of thinking, honestly. Calling everyone jealous makes it seem like you just LOVE yourself. The thing is, Kendal doesn’t have much to be jealous of versus an average American. Only thing I could see would be having a pool, but then again, she can’t even afford to heat it.

[disgruntled_pelican]

Dad Challenge:

I normally do not like this guy but I agree with everything he said. Kendal is putting all the pressure on Daniel so she can continue to live a lifetime of leisure.

Also with Kennys rant on Instagram today- I wonder if this is the beginning of the end of another friendship for EV.

[Kitkat1023]

Wow, what an Instagram story tonight. She just went on and on about teenage mean girls … at her age!

Something about telling someone a secret and them telling the secret. She was almost incoherent and rambling, it was funny seeing her with a towel wrapped around her neck and Mickey Mouse in the background.

and wtf are they in Disney when they had over a week of spring break last week. Sounds like she’s definitely on the run. No cheer practice or privates? Hmmm … is the drama at the gym?


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[NovaOvaOwl]

Kendal was super charged up on Instagram stories tonight. There’s definitely some sh** going down in the land of the Kendal. I assume it’s with Evie, since she’s the oldest and has the most drama, but who knows?! She sounded freshly pissed, so clearly something happened just today. She was ranting about how she’s fed up with "mean girls" who spread rumors and info they shouldn’t be spreading behind people’s backs, and people who start drama and stuff. She especially kept repeating the word "jealousy."

As we’ve talked about, one of Kendal’s major problems are that she just assumes that if someone criticizes her, Evie, or whoever, that must mean they’re jealous. That’s so far from the truth. It COULD be true, but often criticism does NOT equal jealousy at all. For example, you have a parent who’s abusive. You sh** talk them, say you’ll never be like them, and will be much better. Obviously the sh** talker doesn’t want to be like the abuser, and that’s FAR from jealousy. It’s got nothing to do with wanting what the abuser has.
Another example, a girl bullies other girls at school and people talk about how mean she is and to steer clear. People giving others the heads up to not get involved with the bully don’t want to BE like the bully. It’s got nothing to do with what the bully has or what she looks like. It’s just the "sh** talkers" trying to look out for others.

I feel like Kendal’s automatic jump to jealousy is what keeps her angry. While she keeps saying it, in her head, she struggles to fit the puzzle together with that conclusion. I feel like she knows there’s no real evidence of being jealous (like wanting to look like EV, etc) and she uses it to calm herself down and put herself or Evie on top of the situation. Saying someone is just jealous that they aren’t like them easily dismisses the criticism. With Kendal, I don’t think it’s working. She doesn’t seem to truly believe herself, shown by the "thought dumping" and rambling.

Also, it’s such a self-centered way of thinking, honestly. Calling everyone jealous makes it seem like you just LOVE yourself. The thing is, Kendal doesn’t have much to be jealous of versus an average American. Only thing I could see would be having a pool, but then again, she can’t even afford to heat it.

I feel like it’s Kapri or Brin because they took them to Disneyland today out of the blue and Evie stayed home I doubt they would have left Evie alone when dealing with this. I feel like Kendal wanted to take Kapri and Brin out to do something after being bullied by friends as a treat or to get there mind off of things.

They took Kapri and Brin to Disneyland and none of the other family members maybe it was just to help them get their mind off the drama.
Evie stayed home all day and I don’t think Kendal would have left her if it were her. Kendal cares about Evie too much to just leave her after going through something like this.

Whenever I’m sad I just get get out of the house and do something so I feel like that’s what Kendal was doing for Brin and Kapri.

[Glass Half Full]

I won’t condone bullying but if we can leave that accusation aside for a minute

Kendal accusing people of being jealous is just her deflecting the problem that likely lies within her own kids. I don’t know if this problem is with Evie this time as Evie is still home and Kendal is away with the other two girls. Unless whatever happened, happened with Evie while she was away. But I dont reckon she took a spontaneous disney trip with B and K to run away from Evie.

Either Kendal is just overly involved in her kids’ relationships and takes every single fight as a a serious issue OR her kids are difficult trouble makers. Because there seem to be so many fights and battles and they all are directed at the Rich girls.

Kendal needs to vent on Instagram because she has no friends. If she had real friends she would vent to them. So the person who has commented to Kendal that mean girls grow up to be lonely is actually describing Kendal. And she is passing on her mean girls traits to her own girls.

So much so for all the girls being so nice at flip city. We have to assume that this latest problem is coming from the cheer world as her poor kids have no friends outside of cheer.

[Seri0usly]

Here's my interpretation:

E sent Boy #1 explicit photos after they broke up hoping that they would change his mind. When they didn't, she trashed him on social media. Boy #1 got upset, but bided his time until she seemed relatively happy with Boy #2. Then Boy #1 sent Boy #2 the photos. Boy #2 breaks up with E out of disgust and Boy #2's sister knows all the details.

E tries to run interference with Boy #2's sister, who's both disgusted and annoyed with her. Desperate for post break up sympathy, E confides in other members of the cheer team who of course talk about her because she's absurd.

K finds out, tries to threaten Boy #1 with something ridiculously self important but he and his Christian family laugh in her face which in turn makes D cry. D concludes that he needs to get a job because he needs a 50 hour/week break from the looney house. K laments that E's scandal isn't something that she can put on YouTube like a teen pregnancy and leaves her out of the Disney trip hoping that E will choose her future scandals with more consideration of their YouTube ad revenue.

The end.

As for jealousy, I will admit this: KD had great timing with buying that house. The pandemic housing market has been nuts and they squeezed in right before all of that. They are probably sitting on a few $100k of equity. Hopefully they are smart enough to turn that into some income. But I'm not holding my breath.

[Glass Half Full]

Here's my interpretation:

E sent Boy #1 explicit photos after they broke up hoping that they would change his mind. When they didn't, she trashed him on social media. Boy #1 got upset, but bided his time until she seemed relatively happy with Boy #2. Then Boy #1 sent Boy #2 the photos. Boy #2 breaks up with E out of disgust and Boy #2's sister knows all the details.

E tries to run interference with Boy #2's sister, who's both disgusted and annoyed with her. Desperate for post break up sympathy, E confides in other members of the cheer team who of course talk about her because she's absurd.

K finds out, tries to threaten Boy #1 with something ridiculously self important but he and his Christian family laugh in her face which in turn makes D cry. D concludes that he needs to get a job because he needs a 50 hour/week break from the looney house. K laments that E's scandal isn't something that she can put on YouTube like a teen pregnancy and leaves her out of the Disney trip hoping that E will choose her future scandals with more consideration of their YouTube ad revenue.

The end.

As for jealousy, I will admit this: KD had great timing with buying that house. The pandemic housing market has been nuts and they squeezed in right before all of that. They are probably sitting on a few $100k of equity. Hopefully they are smart enough to turn that into some income. But I'm not holding my breath.

I can’t comment on your theories about the teen drama because I have absolutely no clue and wouldnt like to make accusations. However it does sound like a plausible teenage thing to do. BUT your comment about their house is 100% correct. In fact, I just googled their address and according to the internet anyway, their house is now worth 1.1 million. They paid 715k so that’s 400k in profit if they were to sell. I did make that same point in a comment about a week ago that Covid brought about a housing boom in Florida. Maybe they should sell up. Move closer to Miami so the girls can go to Top Gun. Leave the trail of disaster that they created with friends and fights and all the cheer gyms in the area. Make some money on their house. Give Daniel more job opportunities in bigger cities (Fort Lauderdale or Miami). And Kendal can still boast that they live in SOUTH Florida.

[Glass Half Full]

From this mornings stories, maybe it was about Evie yet again!