Gardner Quad Squad

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I have registered here specifically to post about how super super annoying these people are!!

I can't take the constant baby talk ... will their babies ever learn to talk properly with those voice in their ears all day? those voices are enough to send me insane.

Will they ever feed their babies anything except junk food? How can they not understand that babies of that age need good nutrition? Especially when they were preemies.

Why have they kept those babies inside the house all these months? They said that it was because of flu season, but nearly every day someone is visiting them anyway, so why insist it is to keep them away from people? They needed fresh air and have only been getting it in the past week or so.

I have been watching their videos for months now, but I refuse to subscribe and give them the satisfaction of knowing that someone else follows them. I think that everything they do is a set-up. The constant product placements to get money, the staged photos, the mother's makeup and the father's obsession with doughnuts is driving me crazy. I read that her father works in PR which is obvious as they have been out to make money from these babies from day one. They seem desperate for their own show .... sincerely hope that never happens!

I really should stop watching them, but it is a like the proverbial car crash ... I just can't look away!

[meganshay]

What is the father's job? His linked in lists a sales job, is that still accurate?

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[ladymama]

What is the father's job? His linked in lists a sales job, is that still accurate?

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He sells stuff for their etsy shop. I think that's all he does now. He thanks viewers a lot for allowing him to stay home by shopping at their shop.

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I don't understand that Etsy shop. Are the things they are selling things they have made? They seem to sell lots of pieces of material that they just market as blankets. Maybe I just don't understand how Etsy shops work, but I thought they were to sell things you make yourself? How on earth do they make a living by just selling things from that shop and posting YouTube videos? I suppose they have had their income boosted with the TV show and they do seem to be forever accepting presents from people. They got a lot of baby things donated when the quads were born.

[Sammy16]

I'm so happy I found this forum! Like 'weed' I have also registered here to post about how annoying the Gardners are! I thought I was the only one cringing at the sound of that baby talk. The women that follow them eat it up!! I occasionally watch the vlogs but I have to turn the sound off or fast forward when Ashley is talking because I just can't handle her. The last vlog I watched in its entirety (with the sound on) was the one when Ashley went to Vegas and it was just Tyson. I can't deny Tyson is a great dad and house husband and I actually really like him. He comes off as a lot more genuine than Ashley.

I can't help but roll my eyes whenever Ashley is filming the girls and she's sitting on the couch with her feet up (and Tyson is in the background cleaning lol). I just want to tell her to GET UP and prepare a proper meal for those girls! Something that didn't come in a can, isn't frozen waffles, or full of sodium. Did anyone see her when she was sick? She acted like a toddler! I also feel bad the girls are trapped in the living room all day long. It's nice to see they've finally been taking them out for walks. I also doubt the products in their Etsy shop are "handmade". I'd bet money that stuff is imported from China.

They can try all they want but I don't see how they could get their own show. We see what their day to day life is: wake up, play in the living room, Tyson cooks and cleans, Ashley sits and does makeup, nap, Tyson's family comes over, bed, and repeat the next day. It's boring. Both of them stay home and have a ton of help. It's not really a picture of reality because most people don't live that kind of life.

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[KatB11182014]

I'm so happy I found this forum! Like 'weed' I have also registered here to post about how annoying the Gardners are! I thought I was the only one cringing at the sound of that baby talk. The women that follow them eat it up!! I occasionally watch the vlogs but I have to turn the sound off or fast forward when Ashley is talking because I just can't handle her. The last vlog I watched in its entirety (with the sound on) was the one when Ashley went to Vegas and it was just Tyson. I can't deny Tyson is a great dad and house husband and I actually really like him. He comes off as a lot more genuine than Ashley.

I can't help but roll my eyes whenever Ashley is filming the girls and she's sitting on the couch with her feet up (and Tyson is in the background cleaning lol). I just want to tell her to GET UP and prepare a proper meal for those girls! Something that didn't come in a can, isn't frozen waffles, or full of sodium. Did anyone see her when she was sick? She acted like a toddler! I also feel bad the girls are trapped in the living room all day long. It's nice to see they've finally been taking them out for walks. I also doubt the products in their Etsy shop are "handmade". I'd bet money that stuff is imported from China.

They can try all they want but I don't see how they could get their own show. We see what their day to day life is: wake up, play in the living room, Tyson cooks and cleans, Ashley sits and does makeup, nap, Tyson's family comes over, bed, and repeat the next day. It's boring. Both of them stay home and have a ton of help. It's not really a picture of reality because most people don't live that kind of life.

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I agree everything you just said! I sometimes will be "watching" a vlog and realize I went through half of it or more without knowing what was going on lol. And they claim they have stay at home moms making them for them. And they pay them to make the blankets. And Tyson is a self proclaimed clean freak so that is why he is cleaning all the time. Ashley's voice drives me mad sometimes and I highly enjoyed when it was only Tyson. And yes a reality show with just them would be extremely boring just like their vlogs.


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I can't take it ... watching them sit around all day and just film the babies and play with them. Is that honestly ALL that Ashley does? (except for putting on all that makeup?) Tyson does all the cooking and cleaning, so I'm at a loss to understand what she actually does with her time except for sitting around and dressing the babies in those over-the-top outfits. I wish she would think of another way to do their hair too. Those little pigtails on top of their heads stick up like little antennas and look so stupid. Ashley seems quite happy to leave Tyson with them a lot too ... she's always escaping for her own activities without them.

The way they feed those children is appalling as well. Their meals are full of rubbish and hardly anything nutritious in the menu at all. How hard is it to know that babies need a balanced diet of vegetables, fruits, protein, dairy and carbohydrates? They spend too much time eating snack foods which are rubbish .. such as dry cereal, crackers, etc. Why not feed them something with a bit of goodness in it? surely after all the struggles to have them and raise them through those first few difficult months when they're so tiny, they would want to get as much good food into them as possible? Imagine feeding babies of that age all those doughnuts? Bad enough that the overweight father and his overweight family seem to live in on them, but giving them to little babies who were preemies? They are already chunking up and becoming little fatties .. although hopefully they will lose some of the baby fat now that they are walking. I hope that finally getting into the fresh air will help them too. Stuck inside for all those months can't have been healthy.

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I've just been watching an older YouTube episode. During their day I watched Tyson do the cooking of two meals, all the laundry, vacuuming the downstairs and labelling blankets for their shop while balancing one of the babies on his lap. What did I see Ashley do? Play with the babies and watch a tv show with her mother. She has doing nothing down to a fine art!

Then at the end of it she had the hide to say how tired she was and kept yawning into the camera (not bothering to cover her mouth either ... disgusting).

I just wish that they would speak properly to those babies. If I was one of those kids I'd turn around and bop them one after being constantly spoken to like that!

[EleanorRigby]

The nicknames need to STOP. I hate that they shorten them to a point where the one is just called Pie. They think it's endearing but it's cringe worthy.

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I hate the way they keep placing product endorsements on nearly every video. Don't people realise that they aren't giving the coupon links to help others? They are making money from them from heavens sake!! Everything they do seems so false and staged. I did read that her father works in PR so that explains it. They are determined to make money from all of this .. and with quads I don't blame them for that as they must have a lot of expenses ... but I think they should be more honest about why they are advertising all these products. Recently she had a bag that was placed in every .. single ... video for days. Providing a coupon link for these products is sneaky as far as I am concerned and the sad part is that lots of people get sucked in by it.

[kalipali]

I can't help but feel so sad when I see the poor girls' eyes. It just physically makes my heart hurt. I know Ashley mentioned a few weeks ago taking 2 of them to the eye doctor but I hope they will do more to help all four girls.

[Sammy16]

I hate the way they keep placing product endorsements on nearly every video. Don't people realise that they aren't giving the coupon links to help others? They are making money from them from heavens sake!! Everything they do seems so false and staged. I did read that her father works in PR so that explains it. They are determined to make money from all of this .. and with quads I don't blame them for that as they must have a lot of expenses ... but I think they should be more honest about why they are advertising all these products. Recently she had a bag that was placed in every .. single ... video for days. Providing a coupon link for these products is sneaky as far as I am concerned and the sad part is that lots of people get sucked in by it.

I couldn't agree more. I am so sick of the product placement and the fact that people seem to think they're genuine. That Persnickety Clothing fashion show was hilarious. Those clothes are atrocious! They remind me of 80s maternity wear- especially that red and white number poor Scarlett had to wear. Ashley's voiceover was really terrible too... reading some pre-written script from the company. I wonder if they're aware there is a law that if a company sends you an item for free for a review, you're supposed to disclose that. I also think it's funny we've never seen the kids in those clothes after that. Come to think of it, they don't even use their own products they sell on their Etsy site. I think that site it losing steam anyway. They put everything on sale unusually quick this time around. Remember the "handmade" baby moccasins they were trying to sell for around $50? They had at least 5 different colors in 5 different sizes and around 100 available of each (those "stay at home moms" they hire must have been exhausted!!!). At the end they were selling those for maybe $10, which means they'd still be making a profit from that price so their markup is quite high.

I understand they need to support their family but I feel they're taking advantage of well meaning people. With the amount of help they have at least one of them could get a job. Ashley's world would probably crumble with Tyson off at work lol. I read they filed for bankruptcy a couple years before crowdfunding their IVF treatment so it will be interesting to see how things work out for them in a few years when the babies aren't babies and they've lost all their appeal. They won't be able to crowdfund for a living forever!

[Sammy16]

Oh God. New nickname alert on the blog today: Pot Piddily Pie.

[nutbagmcgee]

I haven't been watching because of how annoying they are but I have been watching Chloe and Beans. CAB take their 6 kids 4 and under out all the time. Tyson and Ashley just throw the quads in the car for donuts which is redic.

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Have you noticed that every time they take doughnuts to the uncles, that Tyson videos a large box on the car seat next to him as if he is giving it away? I've watched carefully and noticed how he always keeps the box for himself and gives the uncles a smaller bag. Sneaky! He is making out that they are so generous, but I think that taking the doughnuts to his brothers is just his way of getting a box for himself and not letting on. Those kids are going to grow up with major weight problems if he keeps this up.

(Chloe and Beans are delightful! I'm a bit biased though because they're from my own country ... Australia. LOL They are so down-to-earth and just get on with it. No fuss like the Gardners!)

Everything seems to be a major productions for them (especially Ashley) and they seem to expect special treatment every time they go out. Geez ... how many days nights can a couple with quads have? They are forever escaping and leaving those babies with family members.

I actually couldn't finish watching one of their videos this morning as I couldn't stand that voice of hers any more!!

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I understand that having both parents at home when the babies were small was probably a good idea if they manage it, but now that they are toddlers I don't see why on of them can't work? Especially with all the help from family members they seem to get. I think you're right Sammy16, Ashley wouldn't cope without Tyson there to do all the cooking, cleaning, etc.

What bugs me is that in the TV show they depicted it as if he WAS at work and she was coping all by herself. nothing could be further from the truth. She just sits around all day, but in the show she acted as if she was coping all by herself and doing everything.

I can't stress enough how much that woman bugs me!! She is such an attention-sleeker and so immature. She acts as if the whole world revolves around her and her children. I should stop watching ... I've tried ... but I just can't look away. I want to see how low they can go. hehehe! Bad me!

[Sammy16]

I understand that having both parents at home when the babies were small was probably a good idea if they manage it, but now that they are toddlers I don't see why on of them can't work? Especially with all the help from family members they seem to get. I think you're right Sammy16, Ashley wouldn't cope without Tyson there to do all the cooking, cleaning, etc.

What bugs me is that in the TV show they depicted it as if he WAS at work and she was coping all by herself. nothing could be further from the truth. She just sits around all day, but in the show she acted as if she was coping all by herself and doing everything.

I can't stress enough how much that woman bugs me!! She is such an attention-sleeker and so immature. She acts as if the whole world revolves around her and her children. I should stop watching ... I've tried ... but I just can't look away. I want to see how low they can go. hehehe! Bad me!

Hahaha we are so on the same page weed!!! A lot of their followers called them out on how misleading the show was. Her parents slept over and handled the night shift multiple times which is completely understandable so there's no need to lie about it! She has also said Tyson's mom and sister come over and clean her house once a week! WHAT DOES ASHLEY DO ALL FREAKING DAY?! Oh yeah.. that makeup has to take a good amount of time, she goes for weekly massages, and goes on girls' trips. Imagine if Tyson went away for a guys' trip! I think he knows she wouldn't be able to handle it so he doesn't. In their latest video Ashley made sure to point out what size diapers the girls wear and when she was shopping for shoes she was sure to tell everyone what size shoes they wear too . Is there ever a time that girl doesn't shamelessly have her hand out?! I've tried to stop watching too but I can't look away either!!!

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They clean her house every week?!? I missed that one! She is a lazy lazy sod.

You're right about if he went away overnight. Mind you .. she did it. Had a whole weekend at Los Vegas and left him with the four babies. He coped quite well, I thought. More than she would. If he left she would have everyone there from his family and hers to help and then still complain. I can't count the number of times he is seen in the videos feeding them breakfast and then taking them out while "mum has a sleep in".

She is shameless and he is creepy. I'm SO glad to have found someone to snark with!! These people drive me crazy.

[liz749]

I know this has been beat to death but I CANNOT STAND LISTENING TO HER TALK!!! The girls are never even going to know their real names because they have so many ridiculous nick names! And they will certainly never learn to speak correctly of Ashley doesn't cut that out. I don't know how anyone could be around her with her talking like that all day. I'd smack her. They are little babies anymore, they deserved to be talked to like people, not pets! I don't know how they keep getting followers! They definitely have something unique compared to other family vloggers but I can't make it through 1 minute of a vlog without having to turn it off because I can't stand the durls talk. And their intros are super strange too...


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I agree that their intros are very strange. The music doesn't seem to fit and the names that flash up for everyone ... well .... bleuch! Every day there is a different one for each of them.

I did notice that during the TV show they didn't speak like that at all. Maybe they were told not to? Also, if you go back to their videos when the babies were very small it wan't nearly so bad. Tyson doesn't speak that badly to them (apart from his creepy laugh) when Ashley isn't around, but he ramps it up whenever she comes on camera. I've even noticed Tyson's sister and mother starting to talk like that now. They all seem to copy Ashley who is so totally over the top! If I had to listen to her in person I think I'd speak in a low monotone to those kids just to annoy her.

I've thought of making a negative comment on YouTube about it, but I don't think there is much point. They would block me and all their followers would jump on me like a ton of bricks. LOL The best I can do ... and it makes me feel great whenever I do it ... is to unlike each video I watch. Can you unlike every time you click on a video? I'd love to "up" their unlikes if I could. I'm bad!

I'm actually an ex school principal and taught kindergarten for many years before becoming one, so I speak from experience when I say that they are NOT doing those kids any favours with their speech and overall development. They are going to have issues in the future when they go to school.