First time posting and I just found the thread recently but I just wanted to put a few thoughts out there.
i started watching well before Houston was born and I found them through their hair styling videos- I found them educational, I thought it was great they were sharing the care that goes into caring for mixed race or black hair. I watched a few more vids and the kids seemed so nice and well behaved and Reu was funny it was enjoyable to watch- I thought I would pick up on some tips to raise my kids! But as time went on and they gained popularity they fell into the lifestyle it seems lots of family channels tend to, which involves dumb challenge videos, spending lots of money on high-end designer things and using pregnancies and babies for click bait. They were no longer relatable and down to earth. Something that I think about a lot is I swear at one point Tim and Ella said they’ve always wanted 6 kids or they’ve always felt they were meant to have only six kids. And I swear they said they were stopping with reu bc they believed he was their 6th, bc of Halle’s twin. It seemed they were happy with the kids they had and things were good. But then they started to tease thumbnails of pregnancy scares and what not and they eventually actually became pregnant. I was surprised because they seemed like they were set before and it was odd they had changed their minds, but I thought I guess Houston passes to count as the 6th kid and that’s what they wanted. I really don’t like that family channels start pumping out babies for views it’s scary- would they have ever had some of these kids if they weren’t on YouTube?
anyways my point was I thought I’d still give them a chance with Houston it didn’t seem like they had fully lost their morals or values yet at that point but when I saw they were pregnant again it just felt wrong. Them being so set for 6 kids and originally saying reu was 6, and now it just feels like their pumping out kids for views and I feel so bad for the kids bc they are going to suffer the consequences of this. Also Tim talks too much. He’s annoying & super preach-y. If he wants to be a good ally, husband and father, he should listen and he should lift up the voices of his wife and children not talk over them or speak on their behalf. And lastly heze’s ball- I know he’s just a kid so I can’t blame him, but the environments he brings the ball into sometimes is just not appropriate, it’s in the way, it’s annoying and stress-inducing… can’t they tell him to leave it at home or in the car?…. They need to create boundaries and a healthy amount of balance in his life- football can’t be everything for him, even if he wants it to be his career… he’s needs balance to be mentally healthy.
Anyways I’m done thanks for listening!
Omg and I almost forgot- calling hosanna a second mom and praising her for doing motherly tasks is sooooo unhealthy and scary… I hope the time they spend with their grandma gives them normalcy and I hope they get to spend lots of time with her
Houzanna. Pick some furniture, put the kids rooms together and call it a day. They are really dragging this one out. The numbers are really dropping.
