Family Fizz #4 How about surprising your kids with stability?

[Traazers]

Longtime lurker here, but I can give a lot of insight into moving countries as I moved countries 7 times by the time I turned 16, and although I went to school in each country, I only stayed in a school for two years maximum and even then, I struggled socially and emotionally since I barely had any friends throughout my childhood, it got to the point where it was incredibly detrimental to my mental health that I developed a personality disorder. It took me until I was 20, nearly 21, that I was able to function a lot more socially and emotionally at the level my peers are at now, but I will never forget watching movies where the main character had a friend or even a group of friends and it really broke me down because I realized I had no one. Even now, I really wish I had normal teenage experiences (Halloween parties and NYE parties) and I am resentful of my parents for putting me through my childhood. I am incredibly terrified to have a birthday party with my friends because I'm still scared I have nobody.

I can't imagine what this is doing to Mia and Sienna and how this is all going to turn out, but I know eventually they'll suffer once they become adults and they will be so far behind their peers that they probably won't have many friends their own age.

I don't even really watch this family (have seen them a couple of times) and am only reading this thread due to WFH boredom but your message really spoke to me. I didn't move as a kid but was very very wrapped in cotton wool by my parents and as such experienced very little, if any, social life outside of school growing up. I completely get your birthday party comment, too - I now socialise in an externally "normal" way most of the time but take myself on holiday over my birthday every year so as to avoid that horrible feeling of being rejected on my birthday.

Soz everyone else for going off topic but please message me if you ever want to chat x

 

[Blue Rose]

Has anyone seen Mia’s video? She went to the hairdressers with Georgie and they basically got their hair botched due to the language barrier and not speaking up enough. I do feel sorry for Georgie as she has been trying to grow her hair out since having koa and karma, but then again if she was so concerned she is a grown woman who’s married with kids yet didn’t just say: “I don’t want you to cut my hair off that much”. Plus, if you’re so particular about your hair why not research where you are going first and make sure the hairdresser knows exactly what you want? I guess most of us don’t have these problems as we don’t move country every few months.
Side note; I don’t want to sound rude but Mia’s constant shouting when she’s trying to say something is really annoying. If you were telling a story like that to friends in school you wouldn’t constantly shout everything because people would tell you to shut up. Just goes to show how behind she is as there’s no way anyone would act like that in public. I know we all over exaggerate and shout at times when telling funny stories but everything she says is like 10x more than how you’d typically act.

 

[chocolate choux]

Has anyone seen Mia’s video? She went to the hairdressers with Georgie and they basically got their hair botched due to the language barrier and not speaking up enough. I do feel sorry for Georgie as she has been trying to grow her hair out since having koa and karma, but then again if she was so concerned she is a grown woman who’s married with kids yet didn’t just say: “I don’t want you to cut my hair off that much”. Plus, if you’re so particular about your hair why not research where you are going first and make sure the hairdresser knows exactly what you want? I guess most of us don’t have these problems as we don’t move country every few months.
Side note; I don’t want to sound rude but Mia’s constant shouting when she’s trying to say something is really annoying. If you were telling a story like that to friends in school you wouldn’t constantly shout everything because people would tell you to shut up. Just goes to show how behind she is as there’s no way anyone would act like that in public. I know we all over exaggerate and shout at times when telling funny stories but everything she says is like 10x more than how you’d typically act.

I haven’t watched the video but ‘no’ is Spanish is literally ‘no’, even Georgie could have said that and the hairdresser would have stopped. English-speaking hairdressers are a thing in non-Anglophone countries because of expats so they could have found one that they could have been able to easily communicate with. They are desperate for video ideas so I wouldn’t be surprised if either they planned to mess up or they weren’t completely upset when it went wrong as it meant more ‘content’

Mia’s behaviour is probably because she’s copying overdramatic YouTubers as that is the closest she gets to interacting with her peers

 

[sunflower_boot]

Side note; I don’t want to sound rude but Mia’s constant shouting when she’s trying to say something is really annoying. If you were telling a story like that to friends in school you wouldn’t constantly shout everything because people would tell you to shut up. Just goes to show how behind she is as there’s no way anyone would act like that in public. I know we all over exaggerate and shout at times when telling funny stories but everything she says is like 10x more than how you’d typically act.

I agree the shouting and talking over each other made the video very poor quality. They were both just yelling at the camera and talking over each other and then at the end the did a "moral of the story"? I felt that the over exaggeration and yelling just further pushed that they don't know how to communicate a story to anyone besides a camera. If she was telling a story like that to me face-to-face I would not know how to react to her energy.
I do feel bad for them as we've all gotten bad haircuts at some point but as mentioned above Georgie is a grown woman and could have just said 'no', or Mia could have spoken up and said something as she speaks Spanish? It felt like they both just sat there and watched the scenario unfold without doing or saying anything. I didn't think their hair looked that bad but it was just not what they wanted.

 

[megh1995]

Mia’s behaviour is probably because she’s copying overdramatic YouTubers as that is the closest she gets to interacting with her peers

Partly that and partly because sadly Mia doesn't have any friends so doesn't know how to interact and probably hasn't been corrected.

 

[truthxhurts]

Sienna looks very skinny, but then again so is Mia

 

[miss melancholie]

it will never fail to make me uncomfortable how mia believes she’s qualified to give life advice, mia doesn’t really have a life, and that’s not meant to be taken harshly at all; but in comparison to the average girl her age, it’s so noticeably different. don’t get me wrong not every teenage girl is out with their friends, partying and having sex, some are more ‘child-like’, some are more traditionally ‘responsible’, some are perhaps more focused towards education- some, like myself, are somewhere in between all of them. but mia is none of them, she doesn’t have any advice to give, she’s privileged, not in school, practically in a cult- inexperienced in pretty much everything, she doesn’t have friends that we know of, doesn’t have any sort of relationships,, and that would be okay, if she wasn’t giving general advice to people who aren’t in her situation, and expecting to rely on it for the rest of her career. how can someone rely on give life advice when what life they have had has been so limited?

+, we do not know what type of thought process has been implemented into her, darrens made it pretty clear on his opinion on girls who have sex before 18 and people who don’t have children till later in life,, it just doesn’t feel right to me.

at the risk of sounding like a pretentious teenager, i have to say- while only being a few months older then mia, i feel like ive had an abundance more of life experience- which is relatively ironic considering her families entire life-style is based around ‘experience’ over intellect, which in and of itself, isn’t a problem, but it doesn’t truly seem to be benefiting anyone in this sense.

that isn’t to say im a ‘model’ teenager, ive made mistakes and done things that im sure some of the people on this forum would be immensely critical of. but ive learnt from those choices, ive been allowed to make those choices without judgement of the internet and make decisions, good or bad, with a realistic outlook on life, and those are things i feel as though mia doesn’t have, and because she hasn’t had a chance to make those mistakes, because she hasn’t had a chance to be an average teenager dealing with the average qualms of puberty, sexuality, friendships and growing up like a regular person- how is it in anyway okay for her to be able to stand up and talk about her experience as a teenage girl if she’s never been a ‘teenage girl’?

just a little rant, pls excuse my typos or incorrect grammar

 

[Blue Rose]

it will never fail to make me uncomfortable how mia believes she’s qualified to give life advice, mia doesn’t really have a life, and that’s not meant to be taken harshly at all; but in comparison to the average girl her age, it’s so noticeably different. don’t get me wrong not every teenage girl is out with their friends, partying and having sex, some are more ‘child-like’, some are more traditionally ‘responsible’, some are perhaps more focused towards education- some, like myself, are somewhere in between all of them. but mia is none of them, she doesn’t have any advice to give, she’s privileged, not in school, practically in a cult- inexperienced in pretty much everything, she doesn’t have friends that we know of, doesn’t have any sort of relationships,, and that would be okay, if she wasn’t giving general advice to people who aren’t in her situation, and expecting to rely on it for the rest of her career. how can someone rely on give life advice when what life they have had has been so limited?

+, we do not know what type of thought process has been implemented into her, darrens made it pretty clear on his opinion on girls who have sex before 18 and people who don’t have children till later in life,, it just doesn’t feel right to me.

at the risk of sounding like a pretentious teenager, i have to say- while only being a few months older then mia, i feel like ive had an abundance more of life experience- which is relatively ironic considering her families entire life-style is based around ‘experience’ over intellect, which in and of itself, isn’t a problem, but it doesn’t truly seem to be benefiting anyone in this sense.

that isn’t to say im a ‘model’ teenager, ive made mistakes and done things that im sure some of the people on this forum would be immensely critical of. but ive learnt from those choices, ive been allowed to make those choices without judgement of the internet and make decisions, good or bad, with a realistic outlook on life, and those are things i feel as though mia doesn’t have, and because she hasn’t had a chance to make those mistakes, because she hasn’t had a chance to be an average teenager dealing with the average qualms of puberty, sexuality, friendships and growing up like a regular person- how is it in anyway okay for her to be able to stand up and talk about her experience as a teenage girl if she’s never been a ‘teenage girl’?

just a little rant, pls excuse my typos or incorrect grammar

Couldn’t agree more. She’s built a platform off of being a typical teen girl when she hasn’t dealt with half the things teenagers do. She doesn’t deal with school pressures, fitting in, making friends or dealing with stuff like having periods at awkward times like at school because her parents tell her she doesn’t need school and traveling the world is way better than getting a proper education and building relationships. It wasn’t too long ago when Mia would make relatable content like over sleeping when you’re going to go out with friends or on a school morning but instead now doesn’t do any of that because they don’t stay in any place long enough to make friends. Even when they lived in Dubai for a year I don’t think they made any friends or at least anything that would have allowed Mia to go out and be a normal teenager. Probably not the best country to do this in tbh (and I thought they were totally accepting and wouldn’t agree with Dubai laws). If you compare Mia to Kaci from dad v girls, who’s the same age, the difference between their behaviour is massive. Kaci can be quite childish, but at the same time is very mature and acts how you’d expect a teen girl to. She has experience of making friends and a decent education because she actually goes to school and follows a curriculum. Were as Mia couldn’t even speak up at the hairdressers to stop her getting a bad haircut.

 

[peterbread]

family fizz: *give up education to travel the world and "experience new cultures"*
also family fizz: *move to a new country and don't meet any natives, stay in their house all day, get annoyed when people don't speak English and rant about local businesses because they're not up to London or Dubai standard*

"vegas salons" does georgie not understand that Mexico is not the same as Nevada? these people expect to have a comfortable life anywhere in the world if they have the money to pay for it. honestly, mia's recent video came off as both of them being so entitled. Sure, Georgie's was quite bad, but they just walked into a random hair "salon" in Mexico, they even said it didn't look like a proper salon, and they expected the 5 star treatment they've been getting in Dubai.

family fizz: *give up education to travel the world and "experience new cultures"*
also family fizz: *move to a new country and don't meet any natives, stay in their house all day, get annoyed when people don't speak English and rant about local businesses because they're not up to London or Dubai standard*

"vegas salons" does georgie not understand that Mexico is not the same as Nevada? these people expect to have a comfortable life anywhere in the world if they have the money to pay for it. honestly, mia's recent video came off as both of them being so entitled. Sure, Georgie's was quite bad, but they just walked into a random hair "salon" in Mexico, they even said it didn't look like a proper salon, and they expected the 5 star treatment they've been getting in Dubai.

and she was apparently "too tired" to tell the hairdresser not to do that- and she's blaming it all on the hairdresser? literally just say stop or no

 

[KirstyMcG]

The way they kept saying the hairdresser was speaking a ‘foreign language‘ too. Are they really that tone deaf? I think they need to consider who were really the ’foreigners‘ in this situation. I‘d even hazard a guess that the hairdresser was speaking a local dialect which neither Mia or Georgie even thought to ask about further when speaking to the receptionist who spoke English.

 

[peterbread]

the "Fizz Fam" is just their money making machine that they remember to give content to every once in a while

 

[Gtammy9]

To the people above writing about their childhoods - both of your stories really touched home with me (sending you both hugs ).

I only moved country once, when I was 5 years old and it still affects me to this day to the point of feeling I don’t belong neither here in the UK or in my country of birth. I’m also the same on my birthday and always go abroad as miss having a big extended family and miss the big get togethers they have back over there..

They must realise what they are doing to those kids in the long run and must just not care because they are so selfish?!

 

[MsMadamSecretary]

It's upsetting to read they are basically complaining about the peluqueros mexicanos hablando español (Mexican hairdressers speaking Spanish) and the supposed 'poor quality' hair salons. I thought Mia or Sienna (or both?) made a big deal of speaking Spanish so I don't know why it was such a problem to have a foreign hairdresser cause at least they'd know enough of the language to speak to them.

I wonder where in Mexico they are, cause places like Acapulco and Cancun do have huge American tourist and expat populations so there might well be Anglophone peluqueros there anyway.

 

[Blue Rose]

It's upsetting to read they are basically complaining about the peluqueros mexicanos hablando español (Mexican hairdressers speaking Spanish) and the supposed 'poor quality' hair salons. I thought Mia or Sienna (or both?) made a big deal of speaking Spanish so I don't know why it was such a problem to have a foreign hairdresser cause at least they'd know enough of the language to speak to them.

I wonder where in Mexico they are, cause places like Acapulco and Cancun do have huge American tourist and expat populations so there might well be Anglophone peluqueros there anyway.

IKR, I did foundation GCSE Spanish, yet can remember learning things like basic conversation phrases for when you’re out at a shop or hairdressers, because that’s the point in taking languages, so you can at least have a little knowledge to help you get around in a different country. Mia claims to be at an intermediate level and can actually speak very well in Spanish but couldn’t talk to this hairdresser because she sounded ‘foreign’, because this woman in her own country is the foreigner. This is what came up as languages spoken in Mexico, but I’m pretty sure even if the hairdressers’ first language wasn’t Spanish I’m sure she’d have had at least some basic language understanding working as a hairdresser.

Also, why do they barely upload and only upload uninventive videos. All they do is occasionally film a house tour and some other halfhearted video before moving somewhere else (to avoid paying tax). How are they making money to do all of this? Their views are down and I don’t think will ever improve, I don’t think many people want to buy their merch anymore and they’re genuinely becoming more irrelevant everyday. Mia’s the only one who seems to upload regularly so maybe they’re just sustaining themselves off of her hard work. Imagine using your child’s earnings to make ends meet. I guess that all family channels do.

 

[1234cghbv]

why the hell are they promoting a gambling app, surely that’s completely inappropriate for their audience

*half way through the video but time for a rant about bleeping Darren* why does it have to be so tit to work for someone else? why is it that your standard is the standard that’s best for everyone. No, sienna can’t be what she wants. You’ve completely cut off academic access for her, something she’s clearly interested in. You bleeping asshole. Why the hell are you constantly on defence about the tyrannical decisions your enforce on the rest of the family. A job is working in exchange for money. Doing a task that results in money. You have a bleeping job you idiot. And maybe the girls working for someone else wouldn’t be the worst thing. They already work for you anyway. Sienna is your child too, let her speak for once.

 

[amyrosalia]

I don't know if it was just me but Georgie was talking about how it is important for Mia and Sienna to see her naked. I don't know It just seemed a little bit weird to me. They don't need to put that in a video. Mia and Sienna were sitting with her vaguely nodding.

 

[Ashleya]

They forgot, we make enough by not paying taxes

Maybe I’m wrong but to me they seem to think that choosing religion is like choosing a car of a house.

 

[MsMadamSecretary]

"Edit it good" Georgie's grammar is really terrible.

 

[Colorofleaves]

My oh my have they changed. I knew them when sienna was around 2 years old and we’d have vegan documentary nights round each other’s houses. I miss those days.

 

[Blue Rose]

Anyone find it weird how Mia just stared at the camera most of the time smiling when others were talking, don’t you usually look at whoever’s talking? Perhaps another social skill she’s missed out from going to school and having friends. I found it quite sad how Mia and Sienna’s only stories about friends were from when they were much younger, it seems they won’t have any funny friend memories from their teen years. I’m glad they seem to have invested their money so the girls have something to live off when they realise they’re lack of education really hinders their ability to get a job, I have a feeling they haven’t considered the qualifications Sienna will actually need to become a scientist since Mia’s only interests are drawing and writing which don’t always need so many qualifications. It seems Mia’s the only one they’ really thought of and poor Sienna’s going to be stuck when she actually wants to pursue her dreams. I found it quite strange how they thought Mia wouldn’t have been able to do YouTube and GCSEs at the same time. There’s loads of teenagers who run successful channels and get their qualifications, plus ones who get part time jobs to perhaps save for uni or work experience. I used to do homework and revision whilst baby sitting and on the way to cleaning jobs. Most kids in school have some other things going on outside of it, whether that’s a job or club they’re going to they’ll still be able to do that and school to the best of their ability. I know there’s many celebrities and millionaires who dropped out, but there’s also many, like Mark Zukerburg, who stayed in school and made the most of education. They were basically trying to say school limits you because you have to learn trigonometry (which might not help you if you become a lawyer, but you wouldn’t know unless you tried) instead of drawing for your crappy colouring book.