8 Passengers: Feeding Your Kids Leftovers and Emotions | Part 15

[cvntlord0606]

let me get this straight. ruby films herself crying because chads grades aren't as good as she wants them to be a few months ago, gets his phone taken away for the summer. then he left his homework somewhere in the house or car that is all of a sudden forbidden which he had no idea would be and according to him the homework is half his grade. then she demands CASH for him to get a piece of paper he left out back, which if he doesn't get back his grades could slip again. I seriously can't with this woman. she doesn't even buy chad clothes and then demands he give her money for an important piece of paper. the kids could have been rushing to get ready for school since ruby does absolutely nothing to help them in the mornings and then accidentally left their homework on the counter and now they have to pay up. i actually enjoyed watching how disrespectful the kids were to ruby when she was trying to get their attention. and she wonders why they never listen to her? because they are all smarter than she is and don't want to put up with her bullshit. also as much as i dont like shari, i like that she stood up for her siblings and actually realised how stupid her mother is this time. I think kevin even realised how stupid she is too and came up with them doing a chore, which is completely dumb as well but way more reasonable then making them pay.
this vlog had me fuming hahahahaha

[Parktown]

So now every vlog will be preaching from an uneducated religious extremist couch psychologist? Great!
Also anyone notice when she mentioned what a parent is responsible of providing a child, there was absolutely nothing about nurturing, loving!? Please woman your kids show zero affection for you please stay away from advising for all that is holy!

[Cinderellaswiss]

let me get this straight. ruby films herself crying because chads grades aren't as good as she wants them to be a few months ago, gets his phone taken away for the summer. then he left his homework somewhere in the house or car that is all of a sudden forbidden which he had no idea would be and according to him the homework is half his grade. then she demands CASH for him to get a piece of paper he left out back, which if he doesn't get back his grades could slip again. I seriously can't with this woman. she doesn't even buy chad clothes and then demands he give her money for an important piece of paper. the kids could have been rushing to get ready for school since ruby does absolutely nothing to help them in the mornings and then accidentally left their homework on the counter and now they have to pay up. i actually enjoyed watching how disrespectful the kids were to ruby when she was trying to get their attention. and she wonders why they never listen to her? because they are all smarter than she is and don't want to put up with her bullshit. also as much as i dont like shari, i like that she stood up for her siblings and actually realised how stupid her mother is this time. I think kevin even realised how stupid she is too and came up with them doing a chore, which is completely dumb as well but way more reasonable then making them pay.
this vlog had me fuming hahahahaha

I agree! And just like that, she found another way to get the kids to do all the housework. She is embarrassing. It is completely normal to even do a 14 year olds lunch ( yes, supernanny once had a go at a mum about this ).

Ruby seems to be in such a rush to get rid of any parental responsibility. Why oh why did she have 6 kids

[Parktown]

It must be hell to have to live in a household where you are constantly stressing not to be soldier like!
She wants the older kids to take care of Eve’s hair!
She wants Chad to look after Russell!
And she wants them all to clean the new house for her so she found a way!
They all need to pack their own food! So what is her job?
I even make sure I take a marker and write ‘I love you’ on the lids! This is such a poor excuse of a mom no wonder the kids don’t like her one bit!
You lose it Ruby not because you repeat yourself! Take a step back even further than that! You are a controlling neurotic freak just like your sisters all are! Now throw narcissistic tendencies and there you have it!
Start judging yourself a little!!! So glad Shari called you out!!!!

[Happy+Charlie]

So now every vlog will be preaching from an uneducated religious extremist couch psychologist? Great!
Also anyone notice when she mentioned what a parent is responsible of providing a child, there was absolutely nothing about nurturing, loving!? Please woman your kids show zero affection for you please stay away from advising for all that is holy!

She confessed recently that before YouTube she didn't have the capacity for compassion, lol. She is kidding herself, cause she still doesn't have it. In Ruby's book, she did her kids a favor by popping them out and letting them breath air every day. In Ruby's head, she owes them nothing and is responsible for nothing when it comes to the kids. Her responsibility was giving them life. However, they are responsible for everything, cleaning, preparing food, washing their clothes (at a very young age), being the perfect children so she doesn't have to do anything. Oh, and the biggest responsibility for the kids is taking care of their siblings, even though it wasn't their choice to have them. Please, please, please Franke children, break this cycle. Your mom is not a good example for a mother. She is selfish, uncaring, erratic, and irresponsible.

[Happy+Charlie]

I think kids should be taught responsibility that's appropriate for their age. A five-year-old should not yet be responsible for her making her own lunch and taking it to school. Perhaps Eve's responsibility should be getting her uniform/shoes on for school. Then perhaps putting her lunch in her bookbag that Ruby has made.

Ruby had dandruff in school? Those Griffith girls aren't new to hygiene problems!! GROSS!!!

Also, what does Ruby do for the kids? They do their laundry. They clean their rooms and bathrooms and other rooms in the house. Shari drives them to and from school.

Meanwhile Ruby forgets their Dr appts. Ruby doesn't drive them to school. Ruby doesn't do laundry or pack lunches. What does she do for the kids? How does she mother them? She constantly makes excuses for her mishaps but those kids get the fire of hell if they leave their homework in the van.

BTW - Hi Ruby, we know you read here. Those poor kids!!!

1. Eve was responsible for making her own lunch even as a toddler. Ruby confirmed it when viewers asked why she stored the sandwich supplies on the bottom shelf of the pantry. I assume that is why Eve never ate, toddlers aren't great at telling time, or initiating complex tasks like meal preparation.

2. Ruby's school stories were enlightening. I am not that much younger than her, and I don't even recall stories of kids being assessed with calipers and graded on how much fat/weight they lose during the school term. No wonder they all have such a disordered relationship with food. Did they do this anywhere besides Utah?

3. Ruby's only responsibility with the kids appears to be making their life as difficult as possible. Like making them do their laundry at a house they don't live in, or doing chores late into the night to earn back the homework they left out.

4. I don't think Chad left his backpack/homework in the car. Ruby went around the house grabbing anything "out of place" as well. For all we know it could have been left in his room, still in progress, when he was called to dinner. I also find it fishy that this group of kids, who fights over/steals/hides food, would have abandoned a treasure trove of chocolate "treats" in the van. The kids all suggested taking Ruby's belongings that were impassively being used (wedding ring/bowls/pillow/phone/camera) which suggests she grabbed items that were left out for a purpose. Irrational nabbing of items would also explain why Shari was sticking up for them, when normally she is throwing them under the bus for not keeping up with chores....or having a stuffed animal on their bed.

5. Did anyone really listen to Ruby's speech? What kind of emotions is she experiencing that she doesn't " feel safe with herself"!?!?
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"I don't want to yell anymore. I don't want to drop my responsibility to hold my emotions. So...in an effort to set boundaries around myself...so that I can feel safe with myself..."

- Ruby, 2020, in reference to throwing out/selling back the kids' school items they didn't put away before dinner.

My kids were in the school system from 2000 and on, not in Utah, and each year they were weighed (along with eye exam) and a paper was sent home giving results that included Body Mass Index. We were required to show they had a physical each year and a dental exam.

Ruby has noted while Shari drives the others to school in the morning, she is the one that picks them up in the afternoon because Shari stays after. I can see all the clutter being left in the van after school. The right thing for her to do though, would have been to send them all out to clean the van out. She wouldn't have had to do anything. But Ruby gets a lot of satisfaction treating her children so horrible, so this was just another opportunity for her to set it up to be a bitch and in control of yet another situation. She and her sisters (Beau too, I guess) must have been treated the same way so in Ruby's head they'll live--after all she turned out to be the perfect powerful mom.

The kids and Kevin can call her out all they want (I was very happy to see this too), but Ruby gets her validation from YouTube. So long as her minions think she is wonderful, Ruby will think she is a good human and what she does is perfect--no matter how horrid she really is. I've wondered before, for the followers that wish she was their mom, what kind of environment are they living in, because what we see is not a sane, rationale person. I just don't know what to say about a person who acknowledges she has no compassion, she recognizes her children are not affectionate with her, and they have no respect for her. This should be red flag waving to Ruby that she is the one that needs help.

[iiarch]

I cannot get over how she won't pack any of her kids lunches... and Eve is 5!!! What kind of a love is that? Ruby does nothing for her kids..

I'm in university and in my early twenties. Sometimes I have to go to meetings during my lunch break so if I didn't pack a lunch that day I miss out on lunch, but I always have snacks to get by. However, my father whom works a few minutes away from the university picks up lunch for himself and me and brings it to me on those days lol. He won't even let me pay him back for it if I offer. I've read stories on this thread of users kids forgetting their lunch and driving to school to bring it to them. Happened to me a few times as well in my childhood, and if I have children I will do it for them too. There's nothing wrong with being a decent parent Ruby...

[kates_crush]

I look after a five year old... sometimes he still needs help wiping his own butt.
I cannot imagine making a child that young in charge or their own day.
get up, get dressed, brush teeth, do hair, make bed, pack lunch... way too much responsibility at that age
hence eve having 100 cavities, not growing for a whole year, had to get hair cut short(because for some reason ruby is not capable of brushing it past the toddler age), wearing clothing multiple days in a row, having to go all school day without eating. It's sad and unacceptable.

[ctx2002]

Is it just me or did it look like Chad was a little teary eyed at the very end of today's vlog when the prayer was over? His face seemed kind of red compared to a few moments before.

[Happy+Charlie]

What is the fixation about closets? Ruby and sisters use closets like they are the bedroom, that's where they place their treasured things that typically are put on shelves or dressers. Moving into a new house you would want to get the living space/areas you see done first, like a bedroom. Important to Ruby was getting the closet done, then, she fixed the house up closet by closet......again, usually, it would be room by room. Closets are the lowest on my totem pole, nobody sees them.

[MelE]

I almost felt bad for Ruby when she couldn’t get a word in and her kids were seemingly making fun of her and disrespecting her at dinner. But then she announced that ridiculous “pay to get your homework/backpack/whatever else or else it goes in the trash at the end of the night” rule.

When she tried to give up and send everyone to bed, didn’t Kevin say “it’s 7?” So it was 7pm and these kids have school in the morning. But now they need to clean the entire house before bed to get their school supplies back?

I understand trying to teach responsibility and the van was definitely a disgusting mess, but this just seemed so extreme to me. And it all goes back to ruby not wanting to be a parent. Instead of teaching the younger kids why it’s important to respect their home and their belongings, she’d rather just collect their money or have them do chores as punishment.

I was proud of Sheri for standing up for her siblings (I’m kind of assuming here that perfect Sheri didn’t leave anything behind in the van, though I could be wrong and she may have had selfish motives.) I do think setting a rule in place so late in the evening and having belongings going in the trash a few hours later is pretty harsh. But Ruby has already made up her mind.

And as a small side note, I find it really hard to believe that a kindergarten teacher supported a parent in not allowing a 6 year old to have a lunch just because she forgot it. Ruby must have even realized this was a little extreme because she had to tack on that Eve also lied to her about the lunch. I wonder what actually happened in that conference because if a teacher is encouraging a parent to let a young child go hungry all day at school then something is wrong. How is eve supposed to be at her best and focus on class when she hasn’t eaten since breakfast? Poor kid.


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[athyker]

Ruby's problem is Ruby only cares about youtube and making sure she gets content for the day. Ruby doesn't care about anything else.

Something to note. Isn't Jackson in kindergarten? Ellie doesn't make him get up, get dressed, or make his lunch.

[moemary1]

Ruby playing psychologist and answering questions on her Instagram is hilarious I hope people don’t actually take her advice

[ICantEven]

Did anyone see this comment on Ruby's IG and Ruby's and Ellie's responses? So Ruby is either being defensive or has actually been a victim of abuse, and then Ellie outright says she's experienced sexual abuse? It's kind of hard to tell because Ellie's English is so bad, but is that how you all interpret it? If so, I'm obviously very sorry for them. Interesting that they would be so open on IG comments though if they have never mentioned such things before.

[mikaydean]

Did anyone see this comment on Ruby's IG and Ruby's and Ellie's responses? So Ruby is either being defensive or has actually been a victim of abuse, and then Ellie outright says she's experienced sexual abuse? It's kind of hard to tell because Ellie's English is so bad, but is that how you all interpret it? If so, I'm obviously very sorry for them. Interesting that they would be so open on IG comments though if they have never mentioned such things before.

I don't think Ruby is a victim, i think she read a book and sees herself as a expert. The way she comments is totaly diffrent from the way Ellie reacts.

[lmmomSD]

Ruby's problem is Ruby only cares about youtube and making sure she gets content for the day. Ruby doesn't care about anything else.

Something to note. Isn't Jackson in kindergarten? Ellie doesn't make him get up, get dressed, or make his lunch.

Maybe not, but she makes him take care of Calvin and they generally get their own breakfast or I think Jared gets them up and ready for school. She stays in bed.

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[SunnySide0]

Any clues on finding their new house? I want to see how much they bought it for and how big it is


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[Parktown]

Did anyone see this comment on Ruby's IG and Ruby's and Ellie's responses? So Ruby is either being defensive or has actually been a victim of abuse, and then Ellie outright says she's experienced sexual abuse? It's kind of hard to tell because Ellie's English is so bad, but is that how you all interpret it? If so, I'm obviously very sorry for them. Interesting that they would be so open on IG comments though if they have never mentioned such things before.

Ruby has said that her childhood was over at 12 but never explained why! Is Ellie confessing she was sexually abused?

[lmmomSD]

Any clues on finding their new house? I want to see how much they bought it for and how big it is


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In the thread around the time they actually bought it, I think there are hints, and there are definitely pictures.

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[lmmomSD]

Did anyone see this comment on Ruby's IG and Ruby's and Ellie's responses? So Ruby is either being defensive or has actually been a victim of abuse, and then Ellie outright says she's experienced sexual abuse? It's kind of hard to tell because Ellie's English is so bad, but is that how you all interpret it? If so, I'm obviously very sorry for them. Interesting that they would be so open on IG comments though if they have never mentioned such things before.

Ruby has said that her childhood was over at 12 but never explained why! Is Ellie confessing she was sexually abused?

It sounds like it. I don't get it. Who just pops into her sister's Instagram post and says "I was abused" after not saying jack about it before. She overshares on everything else-- we know about her periods, we've seen her IUD when she took it out, and now all of a sudden she's announcing that in Ruby's IG? Weird.

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