Chloe & Beans/Chloe, Rohie & Beans - Part 2

[Cloudsaucepan]

I don't understand why she is so prickly about engaging with any sort of community, in real life or online. Like Thatsriiiiight said, there is a whole homeschooling community out there that she could be gleaning info and ideas from. There are homeschool activity plans and vegan recipes all over youtube and pinterest, I do not understand why she is so stubborn and insists constantly that she knows everything, she's got it all under control, she doesn't need help from anybody. It's just so ridiculously immature.

I wonder if the immaturity is compounded though by the fact that she has never had to engage with the world as an adult. She literally went from being a child to having a child, with nothing in the middle like having a job or a social life or anything. She's never had to form relationships with other adults on the basis of being mutually supportive or sharing knowledge or just being friendly. She comes at everything from this really anti-authority position, like "You can't tell me what to do, Mum!" kind of thing. I feel like she's basically stunted and permanently stuck in the mindset of a surly teenager that thinks she knows everything and won't admit that there are loads of people who are smarter or more experienced than her, and that instead of fighting them all the time, she could actually learn something if she listened.

[tigerlily]

I remember her saying that the home-school meet ups weren't age appropriate for the triplets so they won't be going to any until they are older. But again, why should the older kids miss out because they have young siblings? One parent can stay home with the triplets and one parent could take the older three to the meet ups, simple solution you would think!

[julietpreston]

I feel like one reason she won't socialise the kids is because she seems to think that all the average inferior children would bully or peer pressure her perfect geniuses. There is no other excuse. Just from looking into possibly homeschooling my kids years ago, I found multiple Facebook homeschooling groups in my area that were organising meet ups, both group and one-on-one, and offering advice, AND I found so many good educational activities. But she won't get off her butt and do more than an occasional worksheet. She is so against school because she prefers child-led hands on learning, but most average schools do more child-led hands on learning than she does.
Attending a Montessori school would benefit everybody. The big boys would get to socialise and actually learn something, Chloe wouldn't have to spend time doing homeschooling (not that she does any anyway), and the little ones would get to spend more time with their mum and Ro would have some help with them since Chloe won't be busy with the big boys anymore. But that will never happen because Chloe is an expert and the only one that can teach her kids. She will never admit that homeschooling isn't working for her.

[julietpreston]

I remember her saying that the home-school meet ups weren't age appropriate for the triplets so they won't be going to any until they are older. But again, why should the older kids miss out because they have young siblings? One parent can stay home with the triplets and one parent could take the older three to the meet ups, simple solution you would think!

What a silly excuse. My nephews are homeschooled and my SIL always takes her baby to meet ups, and so does everybody else there who has a baby. Or as you said one parent could stay home. But Chloe can't be separated from Ro for more than five minutes, so the kids have to suffer

[Natxo]

It won't let me post pictures but someone asked Does Ro get boy time and she replied with yeah when he wants. HA if those fans actually believe that then they're blind. Have we even once seen Ro go anywhere by himself in the whole last year? Either she's lying or he just doesn't 'want' to lol

[pianogossiper]

I remember her saying that the home-school meet ups weren't age appropriate for the triplets so they won't be going to any until they are older. But again, why should the older kids miss out because they have young siblings? One parent can stay home with the triplets and one parent could take the older three to the meet ups, simple solution you would think!

What a silly excuse. My nephews are homeschooled and my SIL always takes her baby to meet ups, and so does everybody else there who has a baby. Or as you said one parent could stay home. But Chloe can't be separated from Ro for more than five minutes, so the kids have to suffer

Of course. Chloe can't handle the trips alone and Ro's the only one that drives so he'd have to be the one to take the boys.


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[Thatsriiiiight]

It's a bit like how the boys don't WANT a haircut so they won't have them. Ro does WANT to do his own thing. Yeah right.

[nineteenninety3]

I think part of the reason she keeps them so isolated is if the kids interact with people that aren't her, they might start having thoughts of their own and then they wouldn't be so easily controlled by her. Imagine one of the boys coming home from a friends house and saying they want to try chicken or go to school.

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[Ice cream sundae]

I think part of the reason she keeps them so isolated is if the kids interact with people that aren't her, they might start having thoughts of their own and then they wouldn't be so easily controlled by her. Imagine one of the boys coming home from a friends house and saying they want to try chicken or go to school.

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Well we all know what the answers to those questions would be!

[tigerlily]

I really want to know how she would handle the food situation at another child's Party. If there's a food table full of non vegan goodies, cakes, jelly cups and lolly bags, I am sure they will be tempted by it all. I'd like to think she would give them the freedom to try different foods for special occasions, but sadly I don't think she could let go of the control.

My diet is Paleo based so most of the time my family eats whole unprocessed foods. But life is too short to be so strict with foods so my kids have days that they can eat whatever and they can of course eat what ever they like at parties etc. I would hate for them to go to a friend's house and be offered a cupcake and then they have to think is this vegan or not?

[Ice cream sundae]

You would hope there'd be some relaxation of dietary 'rules' but then again they won't be invited to parties if they don't make any friends!

[gossipingloser]

Clearly they are clever kids, but I wasn't all that impressed by Evan counting in tens and fives. My 5 year old can do that and I can ask him random ones (what's 4x6 etc.) and he can usually tell me the correct answer. He is doing well at school but there are other kids that are ahead of him too. I just don't think she knows what other children their age are capable of I thought Otto did really well for his age! But I don't like how she filmed him doing the harder ones which he struggled with and then Evan butted in with the right answers. That's got to be knock to his confidence. My son's teacher does a lot of stepping back to the level below where they are at to build up their confidence first. I really like that approach, but I think Chloe is all about pushing them to show off how advanced her super beans are.

I agree! I think she's out of touch with what normal kids can do and that's why she thinks hers are incredibly advanced geniuses. They're obviously not *dumb*, but the fact that her 5 year old can count by tens is not amazing. The fact that her 5 year old is the kind of kid who shouts out the right answer over his younger brother is what really stood out to me in that clip. They really need to focus more on social skills in this household. Evan is SCREWED if they don't start like right now.

As for Otto, a 4 year old understanding times tables is impressive but Otto clearly didn't understand it at all. As soon as he forgot what came next, he had no idea how to get the next number. Most 4 year olds could that. Most don't because their parents don't waste time training them to do useless things like that for the camera. At the end of the day, it seems like her focus is giving her kids stuff to perform on camera and getting Otto to memorize counting by 3s looks good on camera. Never mind if he understands what the hell he's doing.

Speaking of which, from what I can tell, the only speaking skill the triplets have is saying hi TO THE CAMERA. They were born premature and they're speech delayed, ok I understand and that's fine (better if they're in speech therapy). All kids develop at their own pace yada yada. But the ONLY thing they've learned to say is hiiii when they see a camera. They're not even saying it to another human.
How freakin sad.




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[Ice cream sundae]

Yes I can't believe they only say hi to the triplets when they're on camera. They'll never develop language skills at that rate! It's not as if they're their first children either.

All the YouTube commenters lapped up the times tables without thinking that it's not that impressive to learn sequences of numbers. Much more impressive if they know how they arrived at that number. Lots of them said oh well I'm terrible at maths so I'm impressed. Says more about the commentator really.

[Curtain06]

Felix has a haircut!

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[Curtain06]

And after watching my thoughts are: Chloe is such a twat.

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[damondaniel]

Her kids are so confused about their hair. It seems like by trying so hard to not make a "big deal" out of hair length, she's actually made a huge deal out of it, and now none of the boys know what they want and are terrified of haircuts.

[Berry_2]

THAT IS IT I cannot watch anymore! After watching the last vlog. In the beginning it was refreshing to see a "mummy blogger" attached to their children, wanting to spend time with them and enjoy being a family unit. In the beginning I thought wow this would be an interesting insight into family life with so many small children. As an early years educator for many years im always interested in this stuff. I was also interested in the homeschooling. I have a child in Kindergarten. So excuse me when I say WTF?! How is it even legal to keep Evan out of school when they literally do NO learning. I have been waiting for months to see their learning through play approach. *crickets*. My class of 2 year olds do more experiences in an hour than I've seen her do in a week! She even admitted that they learnt numbers through youtube! This is not an insight into their life... instead their entire lives are a youtube vlog. How sad. Ive never seen so much hoohaa about hair in my life!! And ive taught many boys with long hair. It was a non issue. And she smuggly proves her point. No you've just instilled your children with massive anxiety issues congratulations.

[Ice cream sundae]

Her kids are so confused about their hair. It seems like by trying so hard to not make a "big deal" out of hair length, she's actually made a huge deal out of it, and now none of the boys know what they want and are terrified of haircuts.

Exactly this! They should see what kids who have had cancer have to go through and realise that it's just hair. Or maybe have their hair cut to donate to kids who need it.

Plus I've always thought that you can't tell what faces or prompts Chloe is giving them when she's recording. She's probably shaking or nodding her head so they say yes or no to her questions.

[natalka81]

I really like what I see from this family for the most part. I think the kids are indeed bright, the family eats good food, the mum interacts well with her kids, and the children are loved and well-cared for. No, I promise you I'm NOT Chloe in disguise! But I do have two significant comments, both of which have been addressed in the past couple of posts. First, the hair thing. What damondaniel wrote is EXACTLY right. She is creating so much unnecessary anxiety around the hair. Those poor kids have no idea what they want. When a child is upset about something, isn't it better to assure them and then move on? She dragged out the "were you upset about your haircut?" conversation all day! I don't for one second buy that those kids are making the independent decision to keep their hair long. Nor do I think they all can be inherently afraid of the hairdresser. They overhear Chloe talking about it in vlog after vlog after vlog, and respond accordingly.
Second, they really don't play with other kids, do they? I am not against homeschooling particularly (nor do I think that Chloe is completely incapable of delivering a home school program to very young children) but in this case, it just seems so isolating. I can imagine how much more his world would open up if Evan were to go to school with other children!
As I have said, I like the way these guys parent for the most part. I'm totally in awe of Australian playgrounds/parks. We don't have as many options for cool play equipment here in Canada I don't think, and I think it's fine that they spend most of their days going to parks. I don't think they're necessarily understimulated. But they are undersocialised if that makes sense. And I don't like the hair thing at all. I prefer short hair on little boys AND girls (or at least tidily out of their face) but more to the point, it's the hysteria she's creating around it all that's so troublesome. Sorry to just start a rant like this. I've been lurking around here for a while and wanted to share my thoughts

[Natxo]

At least someone has brushed their hair for once... We can all agree that it looks so much nicer when it's been brushed by the hairdresser, and why Chloe doesn't brush their hair I have no clue apart from guessing that she's just a plain idiot.