The reward boxes are an absolute joke. Boxes full of tat that hasn't even been opened from when the kids were small! How much tit does this woman buy? My daughter is 4 and I have NEVER had to use a reward box. I'm not rewarding her for performing basic tasks she should be doing anyway and to me it feels like you're bribing your kids to behave. At 9 and 11 this shouldn't even be a thing!
babs is very aware of the fact she's bribing her kids! she literally says that she bribes the kids to behave on the plane with a stash of rewards - the usual plastic tat - from her "mum bag" - with a sense of pride in her voice, and even advises other mothers to do the same!
children shouldn't be behaving solely because they know that doing so will earn them a "reward" - especially when babs hands them out each week for such basic tasks, such as cleaning their teeth, putting their shoes away and "good sharing", in addition to rewarding erin for cleaning out her own pet rats' cage! note how babs states she can no longer clean the cage because she's allergic to the rats, but she will happily take antihistamines every day rather than get rid of the girl's beloved pets, yet ethan's hamster - who hasn't been seen or mentioned for months - would be immediately dumped on the wet ones is kween babs suspected he was responsible for her allergies.
it's not only the fact that she literally has to bribe her kids into doing basic tasks and appropriate behaviour that most
toddlers are capable of, but the fact that she even recommends a sticker reward chart so the kids can keep track of their progress over the week and count down the days til they recieve their "reward". erin and ethan are eleven and nine, yet she’s still resorting to sticker charts to encourage them to clean their teeth?! not only is that - plus the childish tat she proudly shows off from the reward boxes - further embarrassing information that she's shared online for bullies to use against erin at secondary school - but it says a lot about her appalling parenting skills and highlights her total inability to parent her kids! that's not something i would be proudly announcing to the world! such a "great mum" that she has to bribe her children into being "good".
i appreciate that babs is desperate to treat erin as a toddler for as long as possible, but i don't think it's necessary to actually wait until the very day erin starts at secondary school to stop infantilising her, and if she's aware erin is growing up and won't want reward box tat, why is she plastering it all over the internet that the poor kid needs a sticker chart to behave?! she is literally handing ammunition to future bullies solely because she's desperate for content, which is needless and cruel.
why would erin - the girl who is supposedly so unusual as a girl who hates the colour pink - LOVE a disney princess notebook? it seems quite babyish for an eleven year old - especially one who hates princesses, dresses and the colour pink.
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and those "littlest pet shop" plastic tat figurines - which clearly state on the packaging that they are aimed at four year olds - that babs plans to take to keep them amused on the plane?! as if babs' tat-filled hobbit house needs any more clutter, she literally hands it out on a weekly basis!
and i bet babs' friend who has toddlers will be THRILLED that babs is going to
donate dump a pile of old stickers and plastic tat on her!
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