The kids can’t run away- they have no friends, no acquaintances, no other family aside from themselves. That’s how some of these people get away with it.
yeah, there is a response video to this one where some of the kids grow up, when they hit 16 its common for them to get emancipated. which, is probably just the courts being civil.
Who can they run away to ? Family is not nearby and they have no friends. If they are in conflict with their parents, they are trapped with them, since they can't go to their room for privacy. Sounds like a nightmare.
@@KaiserAfini wtf? If you are in conflict with your parents you're stuck with them either way.. you think you can just tell your parents you aren't coming back home because you're mad?
Family react channels are peak levels of cringe. And it's always one parent who puts on this super mega happy face while everyone else is clearly miserable forced to do it.
When I was 12-13 my family went through genuine financial trouble and we were forced to live in a camper that was parked on my grandparents lawn. It's not a life style they chose so I don't hold any resentment for the years I grew up in there. Luckily my older sister moved out before we got into that situation So I was the only kid in the camper with my parents. In our first camper I did not have a room. I had bunkbeds that were apart of the wall. Think literally just holes in the wall. While they were much more spacious then the ones shown in the video. As someone who was just coming into my teens years, not having a bedroom really sucked. I had a curtain that I could close, however it felt really suffocating to have it closed so I never closed it. When we got our upgraded camper thanks to the help of some family members. I finally had gotten a separate room. I considered getting a bedroom as a Christmas gift. So I totally get the 15 year old girl hating her life, because of the lack of privacy.
I lived in one for about a year, and I think having one parked isn't as bad (that's what I did) it has perks but I wouldn't subject a child to it unless I had to
I lived in a house with 3 bedrooms. 1 parent 6 kids all boys except the oldest who is a girl. The only one complaining she had to share her bedroom was the girl. And its also not a big deal. Like its for sleeping. If you want time on your own go outside.
I lived in the Philippines for almost 3 years. There are people over there with mud floors because of how often it floods. There is no reason to clean the floor, more diseased mud is coming soon. Others lived in "houses" made of bamboo and metal roofing for walls. They had it for the roof too. It was old used roofing so it had leaks and they had to catch water in bluckets and bottles. In that camper you still lived better than 99% of the world. As poor as your family became they were still richer than 99% of the world. Being poor in America is like being a king in most places.
yeah also illegal to be homeless kind of. it's against the law to not have a adress and what's worse is you can't put your address on your brothers apartment either because you have to live there. i was homeless last year and god was it painfull dealing with the SOC. i got ignored for 2 weeks untill i wrote them an Email saying if i don't have a meating booked by next week i would come over there and burn the entire place down. then i got a meeting the next day. still took 2months to get any money and when i asked about help with my living condition they said SOC don't deal with that anymore. 3months later my friends 50year old junky dad who never worked a day in his life got a appartment and wellfare from them as soon as he contacted them. i was fucking 25years old last year. oh and it was durring november december. cold and wet AF.
@@savagememes873 a 25 year old really out here upset that a 50 year old got help before them. your not going to like this response but the 50 year old probably needed it more, if they were a junky it was probably even more of a reason then not.
@@zuephillips3450 Yes. I think it's important that drug addicts receive help before anyone else. Comparison is the thief of joy. When I focus on my situation and making my situation better, that's the only way things have ever gotten better for me. Every time I saw someone else getting something for free that I didn't get, and I dwelt on it, I became resentful, and my situation worsened.
Yeah, that's the real issue. It's exploitation and I am surprised that there haven't been more laws for digital platforms to mimic the entertainment industry (not that they do it much better)
Especially when it's not their choice. It's not a family account, it's the parent's account. For a test, I'd love to see one of the kids make their own channel and become more popular, what would these narcissistic parents do? I want it to be really edgy stuff too like the most toxic sit post videos, what would these parents do?
@@orangesilver4568 Nah just don't travel at all. Off-seasons are when kids get to finally take a breather and just do their own thing. Forcing them to RV during their free time is still evil. If you want to be a parent, you HAVE to make sacrafices.
You only say this because you are part of the 1 billion that don't live like this. 6 billion other people live in conditions like this. I know plenty of people that lived in tiny spaces like a bus that had great childhoods and are wonderful people. The real problem is that people who film themselves doing this are usually nutcases and the problem is less about the living space and more about the parenting. (The ones that consistently move their kids around across the country, that's a different story than simply living in a tiny home.)
I grew up with a single mom. She was a terrible mom. A drug addict, an alcoholic, a whore, a woman who completely neglected me. But on the flip side, she neglected me, she didn't pay attention to me, she didn't force me to live in some shitty van, she didn't manipulate me into thinking I was a girl, she didn't go out of her way to abuse me, or control me, shit was simpler back in the day I swear... Well anyway, my point being, having freedom was really important for me, as well as being able to stay in one area and "grow out my roots" so to speak. I feel really bad that many of those children won't have the same opportunities as I had. And I am literally the poster child of "wow tough luck on the parents you got". Shit is getting really wack these days.
Similar story here. Me and my siblings were left to find our own ways. Made us all very self reliant and unique being left to our own fates. She died young too, at 44. I had to adopt my youngest sister who was 7 at the time. Made me street savvy and mature fast.
Believe me it’s good to have freedom than parents who are control freaks. My mother is such a control freak and manipulative that she makes my brother hating on my dad who actually worked hard provide for the family. My father succumbed to depression and death at young age because of her. She tried to control me but I was never close to her and brush off her manipulative tactics. I just hope she leave my brother alone as now he has a family.
@@S3ymira See I struggle cuz I have a mother like OP with conrol freak qualities so... Im in my 20s living with family and so is she and i still never seem to be able to do anything right... fuggen tough ngl
I grew up with a single mother of 4 boys. She was pretty much as bad as your mom. I used to feel bad for myself. Now, my wife and I have 2 boys, and it gives me anxiety just thinking how insanely overwhelmed my mother must have been all the time. She had no family, no support.... and she kept us alive and fed.... For that alone, she's a better person than I could ever hope to be. Morale is...... if you we raised by a single mother, you were raise by a super hero...
I dont know if this is really a good argument. I am sorry you had a mom like this. Maybe, if she would have had the internet back then, she would have done only fans and then people from your school would have recognized her and roasted you for it. Looking at my parents generation, I am often glad they had no ability to put stuff into the world that never vanishes to embarrass us all.
it works if you do it right, my cousin does it with his wife and 2 kids. but he has a succesful resteraunt and sorta just gets paid. but, at least once a week they are camping, or going to a hotel for a few days. they actually travel, go see stuff, go camping, go on adventues. you would think, in any of these RV videos, they would be at some momunent, or national park, or amusement park......
@@barahng This. I mean.. I really would have to run away and take my chances hitchhiking. Time our family's Nevada stop with Burning Mam and think the tents are palaces, get permanently lost in the crowd and go back home with any group. I am so freaked out by these ppl 😳
I have to say, one of the worst things about the human condition is how difficult it is to actually express your real feelings to people you have a connection with because you're afraid they won't care, resent you, gaslight, or otherwise manipulate you. Like there's a level of social complexity to life that I think most people don't understand and aren't prepared for, or the other person is just really toxic and you can't separate yourself from them.
So they work for the parents? Yeah bs, kids need to be involved in the family daily routine. Otherwise they turn in little brads. America is full of them
when i was young my parents and i went gamping witha camper van every single summer, what those people don't get is that the van isn't "to live in" but rather "to sleep in" we spent all the time at the beach, going around cities watching monuments, visiting cities the van had a huge tend attatched that more than doubled the size available, where we put folding chairs and a table to have meals, read, play, for me to do homework etc... the van is meant to: sleep, go to the bathroom, have the frige and a stove to cook (since we mostly used it in the summer we didn't even shower inside) the idea of using one to live inside all year round and to actually live inside all day long is crazy to me, for reference, if a prison gave you that much space to live in it would be considered a crime against human rights
Living in a camper or RV as a couple is much different than raising a family in one. My parents live in a camper full time and I (adult) tag along with them on trips. It’s a ton of fun but doesn’t come without its challenges. Your basic needs are dependent on others. For example, I am a night owl and need an extra hour or two of sleep compared to my parents. My stepdad is a big dude. He wakes up at 5-6 AM and the entire camper shakes. If they have a conversation (even whispering) you can hear all of it. It’s impossible to get a decent rest. Being tired and cranky all of the time is exhausting. That’s not even diving into the other aspects such as the bathroom situation. I’d love to have my own camper. I don’t have kids and love to travel. Those vehicles aren’t meant to be lived in full time but you can make it work for 1-2 people.
growing up i knew a kid who was dragged rv camping with her parents every single weekend when it was warm out and they HATED it. i feel so bad for the kids stuck doing it year round
"the van is meant ... To go to the bathroom" no the van isn't lol that's your problem I'd rather poop at a Walmart or dog a hole in the ground than use the van toilet, which will be inhabited and cooked in and eaten in and slept in. The van is not meant to go to the bathroom in smh
Stupid thing to say. If a bad parent didn't have children, those children would never have existed. I know there's a bunch of whiners on social media about how their life is crap because of their parents. But the majority of people that had crap parents do not want to never have been born.
My father is a strict vegetarian, and for 7 years is a strict vegan. But he never forced us to eat the way he does - which I am grateful for, I might have hated him if he made us all grow up as vegans forcing us to eat only what he wanted to eat. So I cannot imagine being forced to live on the road because your parent likes living on the road.🤦🏽♀️
@@basillah7650 No, we eat at the same time. On the same table. He even cooks meat for us on days my mother does not feel like cooking. His food is just made apart so it can stay perfectly vegan. My father is not a tryant. He is a father. We even go out to restaurants and if he can’t find anything vegan on the menu (a rarity with how accommodating establishments are nowadays) he just waits till after to get himself something.
same, my coworker is vegetarian. She's never push her diet to her kids because she knew her kids needed more protein and meat to grow up healthy, string and be able to involve in sports. She said, once they're adults, they slowly be vegetarian and be religious.
I used to live in an rv with 7 other people, not for views but genuinly cuz we couldn't afford a house or apartment, and it was actually a living hell. I was 10 at the time, so i wasn't particularly at the age where I needed privacy, but I did have to share a room with five people (including me) we had a "compost" toilet that stunk so badly everyday that we literally had to spend most of the day outside, the compost toilet needed to be changed everyday with a trash bag, and you literally had to carry it a hundred feet till you reached the dumpster. The RV was so tiny you couldn't fit four adults in it, let alone 6 kids and two adults. No hate against my parents, they were really struggling at the time, but looking at vloggers like this makes me think back on how suffocating my own experience was, I can't even imagine it being online for everyone to see, not to mention having to pretend I liked it... Moral of the story: never force your kids to live in a hellish environment for view, actually, don't vlog your kids PERIOD...
Feeling sorry about your experience... but it is totally your parents' responsibility to have enough money to raise you and your brothers and sisters well... Should not give birth to so many if they don't have enough money.
Asmon was mostly right about the parents with weird lifestyles pushing it onto their kids, except I remember very clearly one video I saw about a couple that lived like it was the 60's, had their whole house decorated like that, dressed like it, car like it, except the one room in the house that wasn't in the theme was their son's room because they let him decorate it how he wanted and that's the right way to do it imo
It's difference between parents who love their children and who obsessed with themself and their lifestyle I guess. But most often, unfortunately, the exception confirms the rule.
Tbh, pushing your lifestyle onto your kids pretty much is what parenting is. Everyone tries to instill their values onto their kids as they should. But you certainly can go too far with that, as the kids still need some autonomy over their lifestyle. Parent that doesn't push any kind of values onto their kids is not even a parent. Not really arguing against you as I doubt you claimed otherwise, but the internet's tendency to declare any kind of rugged lifestyle that involves children as immediate child abuse ticks me off a bit. Even in this video some of the points were kinda meh while others were more legitimate issues, like the "not having big enough desk for schoolwork" is kind of a stretch. They aren't med students, how large of a desk does a 9 year old need? Or how cleaning up a pet cage is unsuitable task for a child. If that is child abuse, then no wonder the kid will get PTSD for having to unclog a toilet as an adult. Kids doing something that makes them slightly uncomfortable is not child abuse. That's teaching them how to deal with the not-so-nice aspects of life. For as long as you don't go overboard with it and the kids aren't like 5.
@@MidWitPride Yeah - true! it's always a balance between sharing good values and accepting that their should have space for their own development - and essentially, it's how much you do for the best of the children, or just for your convenience. if you live in a style like it was the 60's, but you understand - that the best for the children is modern education and their own interest how to organize their space - it's not like if don't share with them some good values, even opposite. But if you live in a van with cameras and their should live with you in cramped space without education - it's just because it's convenient for you and your lifestyle, and what you push on them - it's this narcissistic and egotistic value. In the best case scenario - their pick up opposite idea from this pushing - from negative experience) In the worst - the cycle will repeat.
@@Flat0Line1 I do agree that by far the worst aspect in all this is that they are streaming it. Being an e-celeb against your will since childhood will mess up the children much more than having a too small of a desk for homework ever would.
@@MidWitPride not a fan of pushing parents' lifestyles to their kids I would think it's probably just one way to do parenting, but not _the_ way to do parenting. I mean, imagine Asmongold having children - would you not think that pushing his lifestyle (the current one we see) to his children may be neglect or abuse? Some parents accommodate for their children instead. If they think they lived a hard life growing up, they would choose not to let their kids go through the same thing. I'm in the firm belief that once you've become a parent, your life is not your own anymore. For every major decision you make, the children always has to be in the picture not as an accessory, but as living beings each with their own needs and wants.
I get your point, and it's funny, but one's a grown-ass man that can make his own decisions and gamble with his life however he wants, while the others are small kids that are forced to do this against their will. That family is absolutely disgusting.
this is one of the biggest reasons for sibling rivalry too; when resources are spread thin amongst many family members. i come from a family of 9 and the amount of unhappiness. anger. frustration etc. all becaus. we dont have the same amount of belongings or resources (one person has earbuds while noone else does or 1 person has a device while no one else does, or 1 person eats one too mnany chicken etc) leaving us all unhappy. many people are blind that more kids = more people = more LIVING COST. being selfish just because you want to be known as the biggest family etc. is not justifyable in my book ever. absolute horrendous parenting, seen it many times in other areas outside of "van life". good video, agree with the reaction/takes.
I don't think it's the shelf thats the abuse. I slept in small spaces as a kid because I liked to. It's the fact that they give themselves a huge bed and then make the kids sleep on the shelf.
some parents really believe that children arent just little humans.....the concept, that turning 18 and getting a job is what constitutes being a human. which then, grants you human rights XDDD
I grew up unwillingly in a 5th wheel camper for 8 years with my mom, brother, and 2 big dogs. My girlfriend brought up camping recently and my immediate response was, “No.” I’m used to sleeping in Walmart parking lots and jumping camp sites because we couldn’t afford it, and I refuse for me or my children to ever experience that again. I have too much trauma from that lifestyle to ever go back. It’s only “camping” or a “vacation” if the camper isn’t your primary residence. Otherwise it’s classified as homelessness per Section 725 of Subtitle VII-B of the McKinney Vento Act.
I knew a family that had 11 Kids and they lived in two run down campers. They just didn't have the money to afford too much, even though the father and eldest children worked really hard to provide for the others. From what I heard last they now have a house and are doing really well.
@FullmentalAlcoomist I agree I feel like it would create a weird dynamic, how can you care for all equally? without any of them feeling some sort of imbalance? I'm not planning on having kids in the future so if I'm told not to by any replies due to not being able to see how it works... don't worry!!
@FullmentalAlcoomist 10 children used to be pretty common in the past. Now, you can make the argument that it was due to high mortality rates, and that modern standards makes this superfluous. However, many countries are suffering from low birth rates with many people being childless. If you would be a good father and can support that many children (not saying anyone in the video is) then it's a good idea in my opinion to have a large family.
None of these people are actually homeless. They're glamping. Touring the country in expensive custom RV conversions. No one would watch if they were actually homeless. Or actual homeless people don't do livestreams.
@@banhammer3904 That scene from The Inbetweeners early in the video showed exactly why it's a bad idea, trying to eat when someone takes a shit in the toilet lol
I grew up homeschooled in an RV with six kids and I was the second youngest. Basically this but without the TikTok. I could go on and on a out how rough my life has been
child abuse. i understand the appeal of van life, its all about freedom and adventure but taking your kids with you? kids need stability in their early childhood and van life is anything but that.
@@iiyyxxnn Sure, but it's a first world problem with easily available first world solutions. The parents just choose not to do what's objectively better for their kids. Totally agree with OP.
@@iiyyxxnn cope answer, maybe growing up with little to zero space or privacy and little or no luxuries at all isn't the best thing for a child either 🤷♀ edit: and plus for the ones in this video, they're being used for tiktok clicks on top of the above. just disgusting
I agree. Children cannot consent to having their lives broadcast for the world's amusement. I guarantee most kids whose parents force a camera in their faces nearly 24/7 grow up having mental issues, identity issues and also end up hating their parents. Just look at the kids who are now mostly grown up who were on the Sister Wives reality show.
@@ghost-user559 i think you've misunderstood them. what they're talking about is not using your kids for videos and content, not making the internet only 'adult content'.
@@spencer6736 Right. So no representation whatsoever of normal kids. Can you imagine if that was a rule for Nickelodeon or Disney or literally any of the shows and movies we grew up watching? Imagine the Goonies or Sandlot or Hook or television itself with no children allowed? Yeah that’s adult content. It’s so dystopian to never allow kids to have any normal real content that shows it’s normal to be a kid.
4:53 grew up on a farm breeding, raising, training, and selling horses. We worked all summer long, fixing fences, getting the horses in the bar to brush down, bathe, or treat etc. Many would consider the amount of work we did would be crazy to the average childhood but the trade off what a unique experience and lifestyle that other are way to quick to be jealous of. Considering we always had food, new experiences, traveling experience going on trail rides or horse shows etc. My parents tried to provide many new experiences with martial arts, volunteering, and any sport we asked to play. We all played basketball, baseball, football, soccer, track, etc. I hardly got to go to others houses, or have people over (they don't enjoy working when visiting lol). Lucked out in my teens when the business lost momentum and it became a family hobby which meant down sizing from 20+ horses to like 8 and mostly letting them pasture grass instead of pulling them in to groom them for horse shows or selling. We had a garden to take care of daily, troughs to water, and every week we needed to jump on the tractor and put out hay. I started to hangout with a buddy close by and we played Halo all the time. I'd go back just to do chores before going back to his house. So I got some freedom for awhile. Then again I only visit once a year and hate that state now
I wasn't an RV kid, but my parental guardians were pretty close to this. no privacy, do as i say environment, helicopter parented, surrounded by half siblings constantly and guilt tripped into helping my needy mom and grandma that displayed selfish parental behavior. staying in a hoarder house with animals that disgusting. now that I'm 31 now my family wonders why I am anti social and want to be left the hell alone.
I'm sorry but if I choose for my kids to live in an RV they're 1000% sleeping in the big bed. If they don't want me sleeping on that bed I'll sleep on the floor or one of those closet "beds" because I made the decision to live in a big ass car rather than a normal house.
yeah and also i can see you are a dude and atleast for me i take pride in being a man and carrying myself like a man. i could never go and sleep on the commfy bed when there are others who are more fragile than me who could take it instead. i'm the big tough guy i will sleep on the floor because that's what a real man does. sacrifices himself for the ones he cares about.
@@savagememes873 A real man don't put their kids in that situation if your life so bad then let them go to a better family that can take care of them you can still visit them.
The van was built for road trips and summer vacations, not for living in full-time. Every time I got back from a trip, I was always worn out. Now, imagine spending your whole life in a van as kid
Old houses with basement toilets tend to have curtains installed since they aren't actually furnished bathrooms, there's nothing wrong with that. But in their case (Vans/RVs) there's also a total lack of space, separation of rooms, privacy, etc., making basic everyday amenities ten times worse
It's funny, when someone is walking they can see everything trough the upper slit in the blinds. Even someone climbing on the bed above could see everything.
The thing is, most of these RV parents spend a lot of the day telling the kids how "special" and "different" this lifestyle is, and spend the whole time telling them what they have that other kids don't. Its almost cultish in the way that they make the kids feel like "why would you complain, this is amazing, you'd be ungrateful if you wanted a NORMAL life!" as if an RV life is the equivalent of growing up a millionaire.
The olympics comitee is scrubbing everything to do with that opening that they can and sending out takedown requests because of the huge amount of backlash it recieved.
LAN parties back in the day with WoW and counterstrike cramped in a room with 3 friends it was fun but going back home and getting space after the weekend was definitely a vibe 😂
There's definitely a right way and a wrong way to homeschool. It's not an excuse to be lazy. It's the opposite. Do your damn research on what functioning adults need to be independent and then interdependence in life. There are homeschooling groups that provide the resources to make sure you are covering all the necessities for higher education, and to supplement the things that are harder to get in a homeschool setting, like regular conversation, socializing, and relationship skills. Homeschooling is a great option if you commit to taking it seriously.
@@rwberger6 I was homeschooled up to the 6th grade and had a generally positive experience with it. The main thing my parents did right is that we had lots of extra curricular activities.
@IncognitoActivado thats not true. Its not for everybody but some aspects of higher learning can be greatly beneficial for a lot of people. Advanced trigonometry? Pry not for everybody. Business 101. Finance 101. Could really help a lot of people in life.
@IncognitoActivado You're not wrong. Although there are certain fields that I would continue to hope people would have a degree. Like my dentist, for straters.
The thing he said about the kids not being seen as a separate person is exactly the opposite. It’s because parents see their kids as objects, pets basically, that they try to push these things on them and control their lives. If they actually saw them as extensions of themselves (respawns in a video game) then they would treat their kids with respect and treat them how they would want to be treated by having a certain amount of freedom while also being given safety and security.
The largest detriment and abuse to these kids is depriving them of social circles and friends. We are at our core social creatures more than anything else, and consistently socializing with others your age is a need. You will be at an insurmountable disadvantage for the rest of your life if you don’t learn how to interact in communal social settings. It’s literally abusive to deprive them of the need for social interaction with other children that aren’t their own siblings.
yeah exactly. look what social media has done with people ages 1-35ish. people who have had social school life and had the normal life but still due to social media have lost allot of their IRL social skills and are now even afraid of talking on phones. if people who have had normal social life are so effected i can't imagine how it will be for them who don't even have that normal social life.
No, the largest detriment is having their lives all over social media without consent. People use the "socializing" argument about school being important all the time, but most people I know hated school, for good reason
@@batboy555 can’t say I see an issue with the rack situation here. No valves to bang your head on as you do a pull-up to get up or down the top rack in pitch black haha
"Polio, nobody gonna be able to drive" omg I almost shot soda out of my nose lmao. Even though a tragic concept, the way it was delivered was very intelligently funny and very quick. You are great at what you do my man and never stop being you.
The parents: “there is no way our kids could hate having to live in a cramped van, sleeping on top of each other, and hearing others shitting while sitting in the vans middle area.” The kids: “there is no way I am going to have an argument about how awful the situation is because I’m still going to have to live here and don’t want to add being actively shunned into the mix, I’m just going to move out early and never come back.” Honestly wild how their own parents can’t see them as actual people, as a teenager living in a van/RV with family for a holiday more than a week would have been a tough sell, living it every day would drive people mad.
Yesterday- "I don't want to have kids. My freedom is more important. It's too expensive" Today- "this is how you should raise your kids. Legacy is everything. Kids are more important."
I had to live like this most of my childhood, but honestly their situation is nicer than mine was by a lot. That being said no kid should have to live like this. Its soooo debilitating and hinders your development. To this day I still don't feel well adjusted and struggle with a lot of things. My bed for years was a crate between the driver and the passenger seat of a class C RV. Another time my bed was that couch they showed next to the window. Your parents constantly guilt trip you and try to convince you that you're having fun and you like it, and the family is close. In reality I had no choices, no freedoms, and my needs, happiness, and comfortability were the absolute bottom of the priority list. It was honestly child abuse and I realize that more and more every day as I work through things.
22:44 I am a Boy Scout and have slept on that same ground pad before. The reason I use it is because it is as small a basketball and light weight compared to other ground pads out there. There are better pads, that are more comfortable for this kid.
If I was Addison, I'd get myself committed to a mental institution too, just to escape my family from hell. Living in a mental institution has always been 1 of my biggest nightmares, but I have to say it does sound like paradise compared to that freaking RV. Wtf
My uncle's family (my mom's sister's husband) is a military family from the countryside. He had to move about once every 2-4 years... and once out of the service, he got a high profile accounting position to support a larger family of 6. None of my cousins had ever been able to sustain any form of meaningful relationship until way later into their teens because their dad was able to find a settled down job. Most of them have social anxiety because they had to adjust to different social cues across America, racism, city and country life, and the lack of being able to fit in. If my cousins who had such such shaky childhood grew up this way, I can't imagine what it's like to be a kid whose entire life lives on the road, never able to make friends, have a routine familiarity with the world outside the vehicle, and the lack of privacy when they want to get away from it all. What these parents are doing has good intentions because they want to expose their kids to the variety the country has to offer... I get it. But to be a parent, it's not about what you want for your kids, it's doing your best to help your kids become what they want to be. Often times it's hard to find a balance of asserting parental control and giving your kids autonomy, but these kinds of people forgo that entirely to a sickening degree.
My parents moved ever 3-4 years since I was in kindergarten to university and the biggest impact is how socially awkward and introvert I am. I was never able to form stable relationship ever, since people to me just feel like visitors and it was back when the internet is still a thing for nerds. I ended up not being able to remember real people's names faces, and become socially awkward and anxious in populated areas, as if I'm not supposed to be there.
If you want to teach the kids about the country, then take a week to take them on a trip to different parts of the country once or twice a year. You have more than 10 years, thats at least 20 trips.
As somebody who spent half their life living in shoe box of a motel room with 5+ family members because we lost our house this baffles me. These families clearly have money but subject their kids to a lifestyle where they live like sardines in a can, constantly moving around, 0 privacy from the family or even from the internet. If it wasn’t for social media I highly doubt these parents would unironically do this lifestyle. Can’t imagine what these kids deal with when the phone/camera isn’t rolling
Debbie was thirsty for any social interactions outside the family and she showed that she could learn languages fast. Eliza was different because she could talk to animals and was raised mostly in the "wild".
when i was a kid we lived out of a dodge van for a several months between motels, but we didn't call it "van life" we called it homelessness. both parents worked nightshift, dad was a security gaurd and mom was a auditer at marriott, and depending on who went to work after the other, we'd have to spend the nite in the parking lot/garage or behind the building. it was nuts and scary, sometimes animals or other ppl would come along and try getting inside. now having said that, it would beast if that's the van we had to life in.
As a father of 2 kids, my kids are not online of any sort. I do not put any photos of my kids up for the world to see, nor does my wife. I told my parents to keep them off of Facebook and man did they take it bad. Don’t care though. They’re my kids. Also, if you’re going to homeschool your kids, you should at least sign them up for some sort of extra caricature activity where they’re interacting with other kids.
Yes every person has a lifestyle and they give it to the kids. Mostly kids reject it. 9:00 School is meant to teach you to tolerate a traditional workplace. It's to create workers.
Not giving children animal products is the same as 5 people living in a van, home schooling them by walking around parks and showing their punishments to 10mil people
I think a lot of these people need to get Ruby Franke'd and catch charges. "I'm forcing my kids to live in crammed and uncomfortable conditions, depriving them of basic needs like a proper bed while i sleep on a huge-ass double bed, and enforce all kinds of punishments for superficial things - and I see nothing wrong with that. Wait, what do you mean I'm going to serve 10 years in prison for child abuse?"
as a kid i would spend a month to a month and a half every tear with my grandparents every year. i was lucky enough not only to spend a good amout of time with my "bad influence" grandma and grandpa but to see and spend time in every western state from alaska to texas, noth dakota to california. that being said it was just me and them for for that time and i was always very happy to get home. i cant imagine living like that with my whole family all the time and have it filmed.
Offgrid isnt always bad. Nowadays it very easy to still have running water and electricity while homesteading. Those are also skill actually useful to survival and keeping expenses once older. It’s not for everyone but growing up “offgrid” isn’t what it was 100 years ago. It’s got levels..
partly agree. but still kids cannot grow up in isolation. just like offgrid isnt like 100 years ago. life also isnt like 100 years ago. they will need some skill to be able function in society. well unless they want to life like their parents. i just felt it is not a life style. 2 weekd every year maybe. but all the time ?.
@@wyzkunI agree with you but also “off-grid” doesn’t always mean isolation. Sometimes it’s just about having a functioning sustainable home “off the grid”. Especially with rolling blackouts in some areas it seems reasonable 🤷♂️
This reminds me of that old 90's nickelodeon show 'The Wild Thornberrys'; the 16 year old daughter "Debbie" hated the traveling live, while the 12 year old daughter "Eliza" who could communicate with all creatures loved it.
I gave my kids the nomad life with harsh anime training arcs and when they went to live in the city, they formed their own harems and friends they can trust and have become very successful and happy.
I grew up in something similar to "van life" - my parents moved states every few months or so because my dad is an autist who can't get along with people/work colleagues who don't share his exact political views, so much so that he felt the need to uproot his whole life and run away as often as he could rather than tolerate them. My mother was a borderline nutso with a persecution complex, partly from her previous super abusive marriage, who was constantly fighting my father over the most trivial of things but otherwise liked to fuel his own persecution complex/dissatisfaction over menial shit. This of course resulted in new schools every few months - and for one stretch being homeschooled - during which I was constantly bullied for always been new and falling further and further behind in developing social skills and competency for it. Now as an adult, I have no friends and I wouldn't really know how to ever feel comfortable enough to make them, due to a PTSD response for just being approached by strangers. I had a 150+ IQ (who knows where it is now as my mind feels destroyed by loneliness and hormonal health issues), but it has never done me any good because I lack basic social skills - yet my clueless sociopath of a father is always going on about how I am "so smart" and can't understand why I am living off-grid with no achievements. So yeah, I totally agree on the take that this kind of shit usually fucks up people for life, and that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are in any other respect - if you are emotionally and socially stunted, that's it, your goose is cooked forever.
The kids can’t run away- they have no friends, no acquaintances, no other family aside from themselves. That’s how some of these people get away with it.
yeah, there is a response video to this one where some of the kids grow up, when they hit 16 its common for them to get emancipated.
which, is probably just the courts being civil.
and then dont wanna leave their siblings
Who can they run away to ? Family is not nearby and they have no friends. If they are in conflict with their parents, they are trapped with them, since they can't go to their room for privacy. Sounds like a nightmare.
@@KaiserAfini wtf? If you are in conflict with your parents you're stuck with them either way.. you think you can just tell your parents you aren't coming back home because you're mad?
@@randybobandy9828 I meant you can't take some time to cool off in your room, you don't have the privacy to do that.
Harry Potter had more room to sleep under the stairs than these kids do...
Bruh 😂😂. Sad but true.
At least he had some personal space up in that space!!lol
Homie had a DOOR.
@@enigmaticallis3110Rick and Morty, love it😂
@Dylanzohos yes!!😁😁 lol seasons 1 & 2 were the best imo 😄😄👍👍
Family channels are the biggest self-report narcissistic parents can make.
Exactly! Its like that mommy vlogger who got con victed for severe chld abus forgot their name but it was heinous what they did.
and the only form of socialization they engage in
@@VKillershoeRuby ?
Family react channels are peak levels of cringe. And it's always one parent who puts on this super mega happy face while everyone else is clearly miserable forced to do it.
There's one guy who lives in Alaska his channel is so wholesome and best and he always turns off comments so it gives the vibe if watching a tv show
When I was 12-13 my family went through genuine financial trouble and we were forced to live in a camper that was parked on my grandparents lawn. It's not a life style they chose so I don't hold any resentment for the years I grew up in there. Luckily my older sister moved out before we got into that situation So I was the only kid in the camper with my parents. In our first camper I did not have a room. I had bunkbeds that were apart of the wall. Think literally just holes in the wall. While they were much more spacious then the ones shown in the video. As someone who was just coming into my teens years, not having a bedroom really sucked. I had a curtain that I could close, however it felt really suffocating to have it closed so I never closed it. When we got our upgraded camper thanks to the help of some family members. I finally had gotten a separate room. I considered getting a bedroom as a Christmas gift. So I totally get the 15 year old girl hating her life, because of the lack of privacy.
I lived in one for about a year, and I think having one parked isn't as bad (that's what I did) it has perks but I wouldn't subject a child to it unless I had to
That must have been rough...😣😓 it really makes one count their blessings!!!!🙏🙏🙏✨️💚💜💚💜
all of these people might be parents but they are not adults
I lived in a house with 3 bedrooms. 1 parent 6 kids all boys except the oldest who is a girl. The only one complaining she had to share her bedroom was the girl. And its also not a big deal. Like its for sleeping. If you want time on your own go outside.
I lived in the Philippines for almost 3 years. There are people over there with mud floors because of how often it floods. There is no reason to clean the floor, more diseased mud is coming soon. Others lived in "houses" made of bamboo and metal roofing for walls. They had it for the roof too. It was old used roofing so it had leaks and they had to catch water in bluckets and bottles.
In that camper you still lived better than 99% of the world. As poor as your family became they were still richer than 99% of the world. Being poor in America is like being a king in most places.
'Sharenting' on social media is a plague. Parents manipulating their kids for content is tragic.
This is absolutely insane. In Sweden it's illegal to live full time in rv's if you have children. and for good reason.
yeah also illegal to be homeless kind of. it's against the law to not have a adress and what's worse is you can't put your address on your brothers apartment either because you have to live there. i was homeless last year and god was it painfull dealing with the SOC. i got ignored for 2 weeks untill i wrote them an Email saying if i don't have a meating booked by next week i would come over there and burn the entire place down. then i got a meeting the next day. still took 2months to get any money and when i asked about help with my living condition they said SOC don't deal with that anymore. 3months later my friends 50year old junky dad who never worked a day in his life got a appartment and wellfare from them as soon as he contacted them. i was fucking 25years old last year. oh and it was durring november december. cold and wet AF.
wouldn't providing a van to live in be a wayyy better option rather than just be out on the streets homeless or living in a tent?
@@savagememes873 a 25 year old really out here upset that a 50 year old got help before them. your not going to like this response but the 50 year old probably needed it more, if they were a junky it was probably even more of a reason then not.
@@zuephillips3450 Yes. I think it's important that drug addicts receive help before anyone else.
Comparison is the thief of joy. When I focus on my situation and making my situation better, that's the only way things have ever gotten better for me. Every time I saw someone else getting something for free that I didn't get, and I dwelt on it, I became resentful, and my situation worsened.
Kids lives shouldn’t be made public.
Yeah, that's the real issue. It's exploitation and I am surprised that there haven't been more laws for digital platforms to mimic the entertainment industry (not that they do it much better)
Especially when it's not their choice. It's not a family account, it's the parent's account. For a test, I'd love to see one of the kids make their own channel and become more popular, what would these narcissistic parents do? I want it to be really edgy stuff too like the most toxic sit post videos, what would these parents do?
Or at least censor their faces
@@DayrusBPBFor one off clips, censoring faces is enough, but that's not enough for full videos basically documenting their lives.
all of these people might be parents but they are not adults
The van life is not for kids, don't have kids if you want a van life
If you have kids and want them travel with you at least get a RV and only travel when they don't have school.
@@orangesilver4568 Nah just don't travel at all. Off-seasons are when kids get to finally take a breather and just do their own thing. Forcing them to RV during their free time is still evil.
If you want to be a parent, you HAVE to make sacrafices.
@@orangesilver4568 no. When you have kids all that matters is making sure they’re thriving. Your lifestyle choices no longer matter.
As if life follows a perfect path😂. You must be privileged af if you think unexpected things dont effect finances.
You only say this because you are part of the 1 billion that don't live like this. 6 billion other people live in conditions like this. I know plenty of people that lived in tiny spaces like a bus that had great childhoods and are wonderful people. The real problem is that people who film themselves doing this are usually nutcases and the problem is less about the living space and more about the parenting. (The ones that consistently move their kids around across the country, that's a different story than simply living in a tiny home.)
5:39 "how do they goon?" that degen question got me cackling 💀
Lmfaooo
I grew up with a single mom. She was a terrible mom. A drug addict, an alcoholic, a whore, a woman who completely neglected me. But on the flip side, she neglected me, she didn't pay attention to me, she didn't force me to live in some shitty van, she didn't manipulate me into thinking I was a girl, she didn't go out of her way to abuse me, or control me, shit was simpler back in the day I swear...
Well anyway, my point being, having freedom was really important for me, as well as being able to stay in one area and "grow out my roots" so to speak. I feel really bad that many of those children won't have the same opportunities as I had. And I am literally the poster child of "wow tough luck on the parents you got". Shit is getting really wack these days.
Similar story here. Me and my siblings were left to find our own ways. Made us all very self reliant and unique being left to our own fates.
She died young too, at 44. I had to adopt my youngest sister who was 7 at the time.
Made me street savvy and mature fast.
Believe me it’s good to have freedom than parents who are control freaks. My mother is such a control freak and manipulative that she makes my brother hating on my dad who actually worked hard provide for the family. My father succumbed to depression and death at young age because of her. She tried to control me but I was never close to her and brush off her manipulative tactics. I just hope she leave my brother alone as now he has a family.
@@S3ymira See I struggle cuz I have a mother like OP with conrol freak qualities so... Im in my 20s living with family and so is she and i still never seem to be able to do anything right... fuggen tough ngl
I grew up with a single mother of 4 boys. She was pretty much as bad as your mom. I used to feel bad for myself. Now, my wife and I have 2 boys, and it gives me anxiety just thinking how insanely overwhelmed my mother must have been all the time. She had no family, no support.... and she kept us alive and fed.... For that alone, she's a better person than I could ever hope to be. Morale is...... if you we raised by a single mother, you were raise by a super hero...
I dont know if this is really a good argument. I am sorry you had a mom like this. Maybe, if she would have had the internet back then, she would have done only fans and then people from your school would have recognized her and roasted you for it. Looking at my parents generation, I am often glad they had no ability to put stuff into the world that never vanishes to embarrass us all.
RV stands for recreational vehicle. None of these are meant to be lived in. A single person or a couple maybe.. But a family with multiple pets... smh
it works if you do it right, my cousin does it with his wife and 2 kids. but he has a succesful resteraunt and sorta just gets paid.
but, at least once a week they are camping, or going to a hotel for a few days.
they actually travel, go see stuff, go camping, go on adventues.
you would think, in any of these RV videos, they would be at some momunent, or national park, or amusement park......
totally agree. As a kid i would thought that was so cool to go road tripping in or even upgraded camping. but to live in 24/7/365???? screw that
I like how the parents always have a huge bed and the kids have a pencil sized cot
to be honest the kids have still to much space XD
as it should be
Best comment of the year "whopping cough would take out that whole van"
They opened the window and influenza
Dude just imagine the chaos when one or more of the kids has diarrhea or is vomiting. 😂
@@barahng This. I mean.. I really would have to run away and take my chances hitchhiking. Time our family's Nevada stop with Burning Mam and think the tents are palaces, get permanently lost in the crowd and go back home with any group.
I am so freaked out by these ppl 😳
Full squad wipe
@@muscacholi that's good
I have to say, one of the worst things about the human condition is how difficult it is to actually express your real feelings to people you have a connection with because you're afraid they won't care, resent you, gaslight, or otherwise manipulate you. Like there's a level of social complexity to life that I think most people don't understand and aren't prepared for, or the other person is just really toxic and you can't separate yourself from them.
Excuse me what?! Cleaning the rat cage once every MONTH OR TWO ?! Fml, if child abuse wasn't enough, they put animal abuse on top...
''Kids?''
''Nah man, personal slaves''
BS..
This is how my parents raised me. I was just their chore machine.
So they work for the parents? Yeah bs, kids need to be involved in the family daily routine. Otherwise they turn in little brads. America is full of them
@@Sniperahead ofc but not what this video is about obviously
@@BLVCKSCORP the video is more about narcissistic parents. Who wanna live their life like the want.
Well the Romas lived like that or do
when i was young my parents and i went gamping witha camper van every single summer, what those people don't get is that the van isn't "to live in" but rather "to sleep in"
we spent all the time at the beach, going around cities watching monuments, visiting cities
the van had a huge tend attatched that more than doubled the size available, where we put folding chairs and a table to have meals, read, play, for me to do homework etc...
the van is meant to: sleep, go to the bathroom, have the frige and a stove to cook (since we mostly used it in the summer we didn't even shower inside)
the idea of using one to live inside all year round and to actually live inside all day long is crazy to me, for reference, if a prison gave you that much space to live in it would be considered a crime against human rights
Exactly! How in the world do these people think it is healthy to be in such a small space for so long?
Living in a camper or RV as a couple is much different than raising a family in one. My parents live in a camper full time and I (adult) tag along with them on trips. It’s a ton of fun but doesn’t come without its challenges. Your basic needs are dependent on others. For example, I am a night owl and need an extra hour or two of sleep compared to my parents. My stepdad is a big dude. He wakes up at 5-6 AM and the entire camper shakes. If they have a conversation (even whispering) you can hear all of it. It’s impossible to get a decent rest. Being tired and cranky all of the time is exhausting. That’s not even diving into the other aspects such as the bathroom situation. I’d love to have my own camper. I don’t have kids and love to travel. Those vehicles aren’t meant to be lived in full time but you can make it work for 1-2 people.
growing up i knew a kid who was dragged rv camping with her parents every single weekend when it was warm out and they HATED it. i feel so bad for the kids stuck doing it year round
all of these people might be parents but they are not adults
"the van is meant ... To go to the bathroom" no the van isn't lol that's your problem I'd rather poop at a Walmart or dog a hole in the ground than use the van toilet, which will be inhabited and cooked in and eaten in and slept in. The van is not meant to go to the bathroom in smh
“All children deserve good parents, but not all parents deserve kids”
Biology has nothing to do with “deserving”. Every single species on earth reproduces. It’s as simple as that.
Stupid thing to say.
If a bad parent didn't have children, those children would never have existed. I know there's a bunch of whiners on social media about how their life is crap because of their parents. But the majority of people that had crap parents do not want to never have been born.
@@16m49x3if they weren’t born, they wouldn’t know any better. OP is 100% right. Some people do not deserve kids
Fr.
@@16m49x3 Who said anything about giving birth? You can be a good parent to children that are not biologically yours. How ignorant can you be?
My father is a strict vegetarian, and for 7 years is a strict vegan. But he never forced us to eat the way he does - which I am grateful for, I might have hated him if he made us all grow up as vegans forcing us to eat only what he wanted to eat. So I cannot imagine being forced to live on the road because your parent likes living on the road.🤦🏽♀️
you either eat what he eats or go hungry unless making own food
@@basillah7650 No, we eat at the same time. On the same table. He even cooks meat for us on days my mother does not feel like cooking. His food is just made apart so it can stay perfectly vegan. My father is not a tryant. He is a father. We even go out to restaurants and if he can’t find anything vegan on the menu (a rarity with how accommodating establishments are nowadays) he just waits till after to get himself something.
@@JaJa_Pose this is a big dad W
same, my coworker is vegetarian. She's never push her diet to her kids because she knew her kids needed more protein and meat to grow up healthy, string and be able to involve in sports. She said, once they're adults, they slowly be vegetarian and be religious.
@@cookiesncream8490 what a stupid thing to say, thinking meat diets have more protein and that you would even need more protein. go read a book
I used to live in an rv with 7 other people, not for views but genuinly cuz we couldn't afford a house or apartment, and it was actually a living hell. I was 10 at the time, so i wasn't particularly at the age where I needed privacy, but I did have to share a room with five people (including me) we had a "compost" toilet that stunk so badly everyday that we literally had to spend most of the day outside, the compost toilet needed to be changed everyday with a trash bag, and you literally had to carry it a hundred feet till you reached the dumpster. The RV was so tiny you couldn't fit four adults in it, let alone 6 kids and two adults. No hate against my parents, they were really struggling at the time, but looking at vloggers like this makes me think back on how suffocating my own experience was, I can't even imagine it being online for everyone to see, not to mention having to pretend I liked it...
Moral of the story: never force your kids to live in a hellish environment for view, actually, don't vlog your kids PERIOD...
Feeling sorry about your experience... but it is totally your parents' responsibility to have enough money to raise you and your brothers and sisters well... Should not give birth to so many if they don't have enough money.
they shopuldnt have had so many kids if they cant afford it..
“people who create their own drama deserve their own karma”😂
🆒
like those demon-mother Ruby Franke
but the kids don't deserve it, that's the common theme here
Karma that's cute
Asmon was mostly right about the parents with weird lifestyles pushing it onto their kids, except I remember very clearly one video I saw about a couple that lived like it was the 60's, had their whole house decorated like that, dressed like it, car like it, except the one room in the house that wasn't in the theme was their son's room because they let him decorate it how he wanted and that's the right way to do it imo
It's difference between parents who love their children and who obsessed with themself and their lifestyle I guess. But most often, unfortunately, the exception confirms the rule.
Tbh, pushing your lifestyle onto your kids pretty much is what parenting is. Everyone tries to instill their values onto their kids as they should. But you certainly can go too far with that, as the kids still need some autonomy over their lifestyle. Parent that doesn't push any kind of values onto their kids is not even a parent.
Not really arguing against you as I doubt you claimed otherwise, but the internet's tendency to declare any kind of rugged lifestyle that involves children as immediate child abuse ticks me off a bit. Even in this video some of the points were kinda meh while others were more legitimate issues, like the "not having big enough desk for schoolwork" is kind of a stretch. They aren't med students, how large of a desk does a 9 year old need?
Or how cleaning up a pet cage is unsuitable task for a child. If that is child abuse, then no wonder the kid will get PTSD for having to unclog a toilet as an adult. Kids doing something that makes them slightly uncomfortable is not child abuse. That's teaching them how to deal with the not-so-nice aspects of life. For as long as you don't go overboard with it and the kids aren't like 5.
@@MidWitPride Yeah - true! it's always a balance between sharing good values and accepting that their should have space for their own development - and essentially, it's how much you do for the best of the children, or just for your convenience.
if you live in a style like it was the 60's, but you understand - that the best for the children is modern education and their own interest how to organize their space - it's not like if don't share with them some good values, even opposite.
But if you live in a van with cameras and their should live with you in cramped space without education - it's just because it's convenient for you and your lifestyle, and what you push on them - it's this narcissistic and egotistic value. In the best case scenario - their pick up opposite idea from this pushing - from negative experience) In the worst - the cycle will repeat.
@@Flat0Line1 I do agree that by far the worst aspect in all this is that they are streaming it. Being an e-celeb against your will since childhood will mess up the children much more than having a too small of a desk for homework ever would.
@@MidWitPride not a fan of pushing parents' lifestyles to their kids
I would think it's probably just one way to do parenting, but not _the_ way to do parenting.
I mean, imagine Asmongold having children - would you not think that pushing his lifestyle (the current one we see) to his children may be neglect or abuse?
Some parents accommodate for their children instead. If they think they lived a hard life growing up, they would choose not to let their kids go through the same thing. I'm in the firm belief that once you've become a parent, your life is not your own anymore. For every major decision you make, the children always has to be in the picture not as an accessory, but as living beings each with their own needs and wants.
“Why would you have a pet rat?”
Meanwhile, Asmons life condition:
@@everythingponywow
He's our pet rat
I get your point, and it's funny, but one's a grown-ass man that can make his own decisions and gamble with his life however he wants, while the others are small kids that are forced to do this against their will.
That family is absolutely disgusting.
How dare you!? They aren't pets. They're companions. 😂
They are his tenants, wdym??
Parenting is like driving: *_it's not for everyone._*
Those parents are just asking for their kids to grow up and go No Contact once they leave...
this is one of the biggest reasons for sibling rivalry too; when resources are spread thin amongst many family members. i come from a family of 9 and the amount of unhappiness. anger. frustration etc. all becaus. we dont have the same amount of belongings or resources (one person has earbuds while noone else does or 1 person has a device while no one else does, or 1 person eats one too mnany chicken etc) leaving us all unhappy. many people are blind that more kids = more people = more LIVING COST. being selfish just because you want to be known as the biggest family etc. is not justifyable in my book ever. absolute horrendous parenting, seen it many times in other areas outside of "van life". good video, agree with the reaction/takes.
this is child neglect.
@GHOSTSTARSCREAM i think theyre 2 seperate charges so..... both
more so abuse and endangerment.
No it's not. Are the kids fed, housed, clean? Do they receive routine beatings or something that they I didn't hear mentioned in the video?
Poor shaming
Children* neglect, coz there's a lot of em
UA-cam didn't like the Olympic opening ceremony video, i wonder why.
Google protects frequent flyers to islands in the Bahamas
Wait, did they really remove the video of him reacting to it?
It was too stunning and brave I guess
why? i didnt watch it.
Of all the videos lol. They didn't like this one.
the parents are terrible. they give them no room, couldnt imagine sleeping in a shelf.
10 kids in one van!? 😢 That is a can of human sardines. How do you live like that!?
@@valekofastora1027 its just abuse theres no question about it.
I don't think it's the shelf thats the abuse. I slept in small spaces as a kid because I liked to.
It's the fact that they give themselves a huge bed and then make the kids sleep on the shelf.
@@xenn4985Having absolutely no privacy like a prisoner has gotta be bad for the mental development of a child.
some parents really believe that children arent just little humans.....the concept, that turning 18 and getting a job is what constitutes being a human. which then, grants you human rights XDDD
I grew up unwillingly in a 5th wheel camper for 8 years with my mom, brother, and 2 big dogs. My girlfriend brought up camping recently and my immediate response was, “No.” I’m used to sleeping in Walmart parking lots and jumping camp sites because we couldn’t afford it, and I refuse for me or my children to ever experience that again. I have too much trauma from that lifestyle to ever go back. It’s only “camping” or a “vacation” if the camper isn’t your primary residence. Otherwise it’s classified as homelessness per Section 725 of Subtitle VII-B of the McKinney Vento Act.
I knew a family that had 11 Kids and they lived in two run down campers. They just didn't have the money to afford too much, even though the father and eldest children worked really hard to provide for the others. From what I heard last they now have a house and are doing really well.
should not have so many kids in the first place...
damn can bro not pull out in time???
@@tl3119 right having that many kids is so selfish
Kid : I didn't chose the van life, the van life chose me
Nah their parents chose it _for them_
10 kids in one van!? 😢 That is a can of human sardines. How do you live like that!?
@FullmentalAlcoomist I agree I feel like it would create a weird dynamic, how can you care for all equally? without any of them feeling some sort of imbalance? I'm not planning on having kids in the future so if I'm told not to by any replies due to not being able to see how it works... don't worry!!
@FullmentalAlcoomist 10 children used to be pretty common in the past. Now, you can make the argument that it was due to high mortality rates, and that modern standards makes this superfluous. However, many countries are suffering from low birth rates with many people being childless. If you would be a good father and can support that many children (not saying anyone in the video is) then it's a good idea in my opinion to have a large family.
Ah yes homelessness is now a TikTok career
>now
Vanlife vlogging has been a thing for like 10 years my guy
None of these people are actually homeless. They're glamping. Touring the country in expensive custom RV conversions. No one would watch if they were actually homeless. Or actual homeless people don't do livestreams.
@@banhammer3904 That scene from The Inbetweeners early in the video showed exactly why it's a bad idea, trying to eat when someone takes a shit in the toilet lol
@@Murto84 Op: "Tiktok career"
Murto84: "That can't hurt me... Because I can't read!"
😅😅😅
Remember when "Living in a van down by the RIVER", wasn't something to be proud of?
I grew up homeschooled in an RV with six kids and I was the second youngest. Basically this but without the TikTok. I could go on and on a out how rough my life has been
I grew up in a house and i could go on and on , on how rough my life has been.
@@leekebouw in an RV it would have been rougher
child abuse.
i understand the appeal of van life, its all about freedom and adventure but taking your kids with you?
kids need stability in their early childhood and van life is anything but that.
Sounds more like a first world problem
@@iiyyxxnn Sure, but it's a first world problem with easily available first world solutions. The parents just choose not to do what's objectively better for their kids. Totally agree with OP.
@@9hoot789 Maybe growing up with unlimited space and luxuries isn't the best thing for a child🤷♀️
@@iiyyxxnn cope answer, maybe growing up with little to zero space or privacy and little or no luxuries at all isn't the best thing for a child either 🤷♀
edit: and plus for the ones in this video, they're being used for tiktok clicks on top of the above. just disgusting
Notice how the parents have beds but the kids sleep on the floor/closet/bathtub
I agree with Zack. No kids on social media, no kids on UA-cam.
filming your children to make content out of them online should be illegal. and youtube should demonetise everything a kid is in.
Idk about that, the internet should be more than just adult content. That’s way worse. People just need to have some sense.
Family vlogging should be 100% demonitized
I agree. Children cannot consent to having their lives broadcast for the world's amusement. I guarantee most kids whose parents force a camera in their faces nearly 24/7 grow up having mental issues, identity issues and also end up hating their parents. Just look at the kids who are now mostly grown up who were on the Sister Wives reality show.
@@ghost-user559 i think you've misunderstood them. what they're talking about is not using your kids for videos and content, not making the internet only 'adult content'.
@@spencer6736 Right. So no representation whatsoever of normal kids. Can you imagine if that was a rule for Nickelodeon or Disney or literally any of the shows and movies we grew up watching? Imagine the Goonies or Sandlot or Hook or television itself with no children allowed? Yeah that’s adult content. It’s so dystopian to never allow kids to have any normal real content that shows it’s normal to be a kid.
4:53 grew up on a farm breeding, raising, training, and selling horses. We worked all summer long, fixing fences, getting the horses in the bar to brush down, bathe, or treat etc. Many would consider the amount of work we did would be crazy to the average childhood but the trade off what a unique experience and lifestyle that other are way to quick to be jealous of. Considering we always had food, new experiences, traveling experience going on trail rides or horse shows etc. My parents tried to provide many new experiences with martial arts, volunteering, and any sport we asked to play. We all played basketball, baseball, football, soccer, track, etc. I hardly got to go to others houses, or have people over (they don't enjoy working when visiting lol). Lucked out in my teens when the business lost momentum and it became a family hobby which meant down sizing from 20+ horses to like 8 and mostly letting them pasture grass instead of pulling them in to groom them for horse shows or selling. We had a garden to take care of daily, troughs to water, and every week we needed to jump on the tractor and put out hay. I started to hangout with a buddy close by and we played Halo all the time. I'd go back just to do chores before going back to his house. So I got some freedom for awhile. Then again I only visit once a year and hate that state now
I wasn't an RV kid, but my parental guardians were pretty close to this. no privacy, do as i say environment, helicopter parented, surrounded by half siblings constantly and guilt tripped into helping my needy mom and grandma that displayed selfish parental behavior. staying in a hoarder house with animals that disgusting. now that I'm 31 now my family wonders why I am anti social and want to be left the hell alone.
Most parents see kids as property, literally.
So do most people who dont have kids
@@FerrisMcLaren what does that even mean?
@@FerrisMcLaren what?
@@FerrisMcLarenhuh?
@@NunoSobrinho-jw8ek Communists view your kids as their property
Van life seems like a dream until you realize that ‘home’ is essentially a glorified shoebox with wheels.
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We are lucky to live in richer countries. Most people live way worse then this.
I'm sorry but if I choose for my kids to live in an RV they're 1000% sleeping in the big bed. If they don't want me sleeping on that bed I'll sleep on the floor or one of those closet "beds" because I made the decision to live in a big ass car rather than a normal house.
yeah and also i can see you are a dude and atleast for me i take pride in being a man and carrying myself like a man. i could never go and sleep on the commfy bed when there are others who are more fragile than me who could take it instead. i'm the big tough guy i will sleep on the floor because that's what a real man does. sacrifices himself for the ones he cares about.
You are also sleeping in the kid beds in the house if you bought it without asking your kids first because they might not like it? 😅
@@savagememes873 A real man don't put their kids in that situation if your life so bad then let them go to a better family that can take care of them you can still visit them.
@@savagememes873 I'm a woman and I feel like a mother should have a similar mindset.
8:11 “tuberculosis… DONE”🤣🤣
The van was built for road trips and summer vacations, not for living in full-time. Every time I got back from a trip, I was always worn out. Now, imagine spending your whole life in a van as kid
We call this behavior narcissism.
You'll have plenty of time for rolling doobies WHEN YOU'RE LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!
I wanna live in a van down by the river
The doobie lies in front of my nose. The river is not that far and I have a truck. The time is now
They use a curtain for the toilet.
Old houses with basement toilets tend to have curtains installed since they aren't actually furnished bathrooms, there's nothing wrong with that. But in their case (Vans/RVs) there's also a total lack of space, separation of rooms, privacy, etc., making basic everyday amenities ten times worse
It's funny, when someone is walking they can see everything trough the upper slit in the blinds. Even someone climbing on the bed above could see everything.
I'd rather go outside to bushes than that toilet.
*entire life posted publicly to TikTok*
"Please respect our privacy"
The thing is, most of these RV parents spend a lot of the day telling the kids how "special" and "different" this lifestyle is, and spend the whole time telling them what they have that other kids don't. Its almost cultish in the way that they make the kids feel like "why would you complain, this is amazing, you'd be ungrateful if you wanted a NORMAL life!" as if an RV life is the equivalent of growing up a millionaire.
wait, where's the Olympics video? i was planning to watch it later. Did youtube removed it?
The olympics comitee is scrubbing everything to do with that opening that they can and sending out takedown requests because of the huge amount of backlash it recieved.
Can we still watch on his stream?
Are you talking about the "last supper" drag show. I just watched it in another video this morning. You can still find it
Asmon room is way more comfortable than the van.
Bro “she getting doubled teamed with her kids are in the van, what you mean!?!?” 😂 sent me haha
This is why I always say "some people should legally be denied to having kids". This is child abuse and irresponsible parenting.
LAN parties back in the day with WoW and counterstrike cramped in a room with 3 friends it was fun but going back home and getting space after the weekend was definitely a vibe 😂
There's definitely a right way and a wrong way to homeschool. It's not an excuse to be lazy. It's the opposite. Do your damn research on what functioning adults need to be independent and then interdependence in life. There are homeschooling groups that provide the resources to make sure you are covering all the necessities for higher education, and to supplement the things that are harder to get in a homeschool setting, like regular conversation, socializing, and relationship skills. Homeschooling is a great option if you commit to taking it seriously.
I like the idea of podschooling. The kids get the focused attention of homeschooling but also the social experiance from being in a group.
@@rwberger6 I was homeschooled up to the 6th grade and had a generally positive experience with it. The main thing my parents did right is that we had lots of extra curricular activities.
"higher education" is pointless.
@IncognitoActivado thats not true. Its not for everybody but some aspects of higher learning can be greatly beneficial for a lot of people. Advanced trigonometry? Pry not for everybody. Business 101. Finance 101. Could really help a lot of people in life.
@IncognitoActivado You're not wrong. Although there are certain fields that I would continue to hope people would have a degree. Like my dentist, for straters.
They looked at beds on naval warships and thought it was a good idea
Asmon making 100% sense bracketed by panicked moth hands is my favorite video of the day
The thing he said about the kids not being seen as a separate person is exactly the opposite. It’s because parents see their kids as objects, pets basically, that they try to push these things on them and control their lives. If they actually saw them as extensions of themselves (respawns in a video game) then they would treat their kids with respect and treat them how they would want to be treated by having a certain amount of freedom while also being given safety and security.
"Yeah, whooping cough would take out that whole van." idk why but this made me laugh so hard
Really just a case of the parents thinking a kid is an addition to their own lives rather then creating a whole separate life
The largest detriment and abuse to these kids is depriving them of social circles and friends. We are at our core social creatures more than anything else, and consistently socializing with others your age is a need. You will be at an insurmountable disadvantage for the rest of your life if you don’t learn how to interact in communal social settings. It’s literally abusive to deprive them of the need for social interaction with other children that aren’t their own siblings.
yeah exactly. look what social media has done with people ages 1-35ish. people who have had social school life and had the normal life but still due to social media have lost allot of their IRL social skills and are now even afraid of talking on phones. if people who have had normal social life are so effected i can't imagine how it will be for them who don't even have that normal social life.
No, the largest detriment is having their lives all over social media without consent.
People use the "socializing" argument about school being important all the time, but most people I know hated school, for good reason
Hey looks like my submarine coffin racks 😂
Another navy man. Said something similar.
@@batboy555 can’t say I see an issue with the rack situation here. No valves to bang your head on as you do a pull-up to get up or down the top rack in pitch black haha
None of you have ever been in the Navy.
there is something i want to know. Is there any telcom signal or satelite internet accessible under war in a navy submarine?
@@aarons6935 How could you possibly know that. If you don’t recognize standard terminology and living situations for us, good for you.
"Polio, nobody gonna be able to drive" omg I almost shot soda out of my nose lmao. Even though a tragic concept, the way it was delivered was very intelligently funny and very quick. You are great at what you do my man and never stop being you.
The parents: “there is no way our kids could hate having to live in a cramped van, sleeping on top of each other, and hearing others shitting while sitting in the vans middle area.”
The kids: “there is no way I am going to have an argument about how awful the situation is because I’m still going to have to live here and don’t want to add being actively shunned into the mix, I’m just going to move out early and never come back.”
Honestly wild how their own parents can’t see them as actual people, as a teenager living in a van/RV with family for a holiday more than a week would have been a tough sell, living it every day would drive people mad.
REMEMBER HAVING KIDS IS NOT A VIRTUE
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Careful. You're attacking one of the main republican value.
It's obvious that we are experiencing tiny little pockets of reality TV
To be fair if they were poor and could not afford individual rooms that is one thing. Like I had my own room only after I was an adult
Selfish people shouldn’t become parents.
Yesterday- "I don't want to have kids. My freedom is more important. It's too expensive"
Today- "this is how you should raise your kids. Legacy is everything. Kids are more important."
"she's getting double teamed by two dudes" made me spit my drink on my cat lol
If one of these ticktock van life turns to a crime documentary, I wouldn't be surprised.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA HIS FREAKING VOICE! "Now we can devour the gods togethaaahhhh" MAKE IT STOPPPP
I had to live like this most of my childhood, but honestly their situation is nicer than mine was by a lot. That being said no kid should have to live like this. Its soooo debilitating and hinders your development. To this day I still don't feel well adjusted and struggle with a lot of things. My bed for years was a crate between the driver and the passenger seat of a class C RV. Another time my bed was that couch they showed next to the window.
Your parents constantly guilt trip you and try to convince you that you're having fun and you like it, and the family is close. In reality I had no choices, no freedoms, and my needs, happiness, and comfortability were the absolute bottom of the priority list. It was honestly child abuse and I realize that more and more every day as I work through things.
22:44 I am a Boy Scout and have slept on that same ground pad before. The reason I use it is because it is as small a basketball and light weight compared to other ground pads out there. There are better pads, that are more comfortable for this kid.
If I was Addison, I'd get myself committed to a mental institution too, just to escape my family from hell.
Living in a mental institution has always been 1 of my biggest nightmares, but I have to say it does sound like paradise compared to that freaking RV. Wtf
My uncle's family (my mom's sister's husband) is a military family from the countryside. He had to move about once every 2-4 years... and once out of the service, he got a high profile accounting position to support a larger family of 6. None of my cousins had ever been able to sustain any form of meaningful relationship until way later into their teens because their dad was able to find a settled down job. Most of them have social anxiety because they had to adjust to different social cues across America, racism, city and country life, and the lack of being able to fit in.
If my cousins who had such such shaky childhood grew up this way, I can't imagine what it's like to be a kid whose entire life lives on the road, never able to make friends, have a routine familiarity with the world outside the vehicle, and the lack of privacy when they want to get away from it all.
What these parents are doing has good intentions because they want to expose their kids to the variety the country has to offer... I get it. But to be a parent, it's not about what you want for your kids, it's doing your best to help your kids become what they want to be. Often times it's hard to find a balance of asserting parental control and giving your kids autonomy, but these kinds of people forgo that entirely to a sickening degree.
My parents moved ever 3-4 years since I was in kindergarten to university and the biggest impact is how socially awkward and introvert I am. I was never able to form stable relationship ever, since people to me just feel like visitors and it was back when the internet is still a thing for nerds. I ended up not being able to remember real people's names faces, and become socially awkward and anxious in populated areas, as if I'm not supposed to be there.
If you want to teach the kids about the country, then take a week to take them on a trip to different parts of the country once or twice a year. You have more than 10 years, thats at least 20 trips.
Racism 😂 😅
@@yesterdayseyes
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Wont be surprised if the kids leave these "Parents" in a retirement home to rot alone.
As somebody who spent half their life living in shoe box of a motel room with 5+ family members because we lost our house this baffles me. These families clearly have money but subject their kids to a lifestyle where they live like sardines in a can, constantly moving around, 0 privacy from the family or even from the internet. If it wasn’t for social media I highly doubt these parents would unironically do this lifestyle. Can’t imagine what these kids deal with when the phone/camera isn’t rolling
Kids that are not allowed to be kids, they are just accessories to use in social media. Truly sad
One rusty nail and they're cooked
Leave it to Sunny to introduce us to a new Tik Tok rabbit hole that I've never seen before
Puts the Wild Thornberrys and Debbie into perspective
Debbie was thirsty for any social interactions outside the family and she showed that she could learn languages fast. Eliza was different because she could talk to animals and was raised mostly in the "wild".
when i was a kid we lived out of a dodge van for a several months between motels, but we didn't call it "van life" we called it homelessness. both parents worked nightshift, dad was a security gaurd and mom was a auditer at marriott, and depending on who went to work after the other, we'd have to spend the nite in the parking lot/garage or behind the building. it was nuts and scary, sometimes animals or other ppl would come along and try getting inside. now having said that, it would beast if that's the van we had to life in.
“If you meet a dude with the name Enoch, you just say I’m sorry”😂😂😂😂 asmo is the funniest dude on the Internet.
As a father of 2 kids, my kids are not online of any sort. I do not put any photos of my kids up for the world to see, nor does my wife. I told my parents to keep them off of Facebook and man did they take it bad. Don’t care though. They’re my kids.
Also, if you’re going to homeschool your kids, you should at least sign them up for some sort of extra caricature activity where they’re interacting with other kids.
That thing's the breeding mobile
Yes every person has a lifestyle and they give it to the kids. Mostly kids reject it.
9:00
School is meant to teach you to tolerate a traditional workplace.
It's to create workers.
Not giving children animal products is the same as 5 people living in a van, home schooling them by walking around parks and showing their punishments to 10mil people
I think a lot of these people need to get Ruby Franke'd and catch charges.
"I'm forcing my kids to live in crammed and uncomfortable conditions, depriving them of basic needs like a proper bed while i sleep on a huge-ass double bed, and enforce all kinds of punishments for superficial things - and I see nothing wrong with that. Wait, what do you mean I'm going to serve 10 years in prison for child abuse?"
“Why would you have a pet rat?”
Meanwhile, Asmons life condition:.
None of these kids will know what it means when they become adults and one of the local tweakers asks to "borrow" their phone
as a kid i would spend a month to a month and a half every tear with my grandparents every year. i was lucky enough not only to spend a good amout of time with my "bad influence" grandma and grandpa but to see and spend time in every western state from alaska to texas, noth dakota to california. that being said it was just me and them for for that time and i was always very happy to get home. i cant imagine living like that with my whole family all the time and have it filmed.
„Pet Rats? How disgusting!“
That one legit cracked me up 😂.
This narration cadence is my second to least favorite style of narration on the Internet. the no. 1 is that nasally ai male voice, you know the one.
Offgrid isnt always bad. Nowadays it very easy to still have running water and electricity while homesteading. Those are also skill actually useful to survival and keeping expenses once older. It’s not for everyone but growing up “offgrid” isn’t what it was 100 years ago. It’s got levels..
partly agree. but still kids cannot grow up in isolation. just like offgrid isnt like 100 years ago. life also isnt like 100 years ago. they will need some skill to be able function in society. well unless they want to life like their parents. i just felt it is not a life style. 2 weekd every year maybe. but all the time ?.
@@wyzkunI agree with you but also “off-grid” doesn’t always mean isolation. Sometimes it’s just about having a functioning sustainable home “off the grid”. Especially with rolling blackouts in some areas it seems reasonable 🤷♂️
Man 99 percent of the world’s population for all of human history has been “off grid”.
@@wyzkun
how exactly does a normal elementary school teach you anything at all about being able to function in society?
@@16m49x3 i dont know why you evenr brought out elementary school.
1 person living in a van is already too much
This reminds me of that old 90's nickelodeon show 'The Wild Thornberrys'; the 16 year old daughter "Debbie" hated the traveling live, while the 12 year old daughter "Eliza" who could communicate with all creatures loved it.
I gave my kids the nomad life with harsh anime training arcs and when they went to live in the city, they formed their own harems and friends they can trust and have become very successful and happy.
I grew up in something similar to "van life" - my parents moved states every few months or so because my dad is an autist who can't get along with people/work colleagues who don't share his exact political views, so much so that he felt the need to uproot his whole life and run away as often as he could rather than tolerate them. My mother was a borderline nutso with a persecution complex, partly from her previous super abusive marriage, who was constantly fighting my father over the most trivial of things but otherwise liked to fuel his own persecution complex/dissatisfaction over menial shit. This of course resulted in new schools every few months - and for one stretch being homeschooled - during which I was constantly bullied for always been new and falling further and further behind in developing social skills and competency for it. Now as an adult, I have no friends and I wouldn't really know how to ever feel comfortable enough to make them, due to a PTSD response for just being approached by strangers. I had a 150+ IQ (who knows where it is now as my mind feels destroyed by loneliness and hormonal health issues), but it has never done me any good because I lack basic social skills - yet my clueless sociopath of a father is always going on about how I am "so smart" and can't understand why I am living off-grid with no achievements. So yeah, I totally agree on the take that this kind of shit usually fucks up people for life, and that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are in any other respect - if you are emotionally and socially stunted, that's it, your goose is cooked forever.
I hope you live a better life in the future. I hope you have already escaped from your terrible parents