Ok, so I’m 18 and was introduced to the Norris nuts by my little sister who is 11 now around the time Disco was born. I thought they were great and found it quite heartwarming to see kids in their early and preteen years actually act in what seemed an age appropriate manner as today it seems many children are growing up way too quickly. However, now having seen how Sabre behaves and is treated in comparison to others her age (e.g. Mia from Family Fizz or just how I was at 15) I do think that they are very stunted in their behaviour as there doesn’t seem to be much of a difference in Sabre’s personality compared to Naz’s yet she is 6 years older, so should be much more mature. I admit I can still be very immature, and do spend a lot of time messing around with my sister, but at the same time I don’t wear tutu dresses and white tights and even my sister grew out of wearing that sort of thing a few years ago. I really do think Brooke is trying to keep her children looking and acting young for the camera and hope Justin notices that Sabre and Sockie are now teenagers and lets them grow into mature women, not keeping them as little girls. I admire how close and caring they are for their siblings, but that is probably because they are their only friends. I think Justin is a lot more lenient and turns a blind eye because he doesn’t want his kids to grow up (as all parents don’t) and hope soon accepts that they will and allows them to mature. There is no way Sabre is going to manage with driving when she never even walks anywhere on her own and can’t cross a road. In a video last year (I think) they were doing last to leave the garden and Sabre went to a party and even mentioned how she was meeting a friend there and how she was ‘heartbroken’ because a boy she liked kissed another girl. Where are all these friends now? I feel like once their friends started growing up and Sabre and Sockie were still behaving like children, they just got left behind and allowed themselves to become stunted by their mother so they can appeal to their audience as relatable, although I doubt any of their viewers are actually the same age as them. My 14 year old sister finds the Norris nuts cringy and (although she can be very immature herself) finds them too childish to watch, were as my 11 year old sister loves them and her and her friends always talk about them and she’s constantly begging are mum to check the merch site so she’s can get some and always wants to borrow my phone to watch their latest videos. I think once my sister gets into secondary school and matures, her and her friends will grow out of them and kids who loved the Norris nuts will no longer want to watch teenagers fight over chocolates as if they were toddlers.
Also, does anyone find it weird how before they used to do last to leave challenges for $1000 but now do it for things such as all you can eat McDonald’s. If anything they should be more able to afford such a prize as those videos bring in the most views, 2 months ago they did last to leave the bed for $1000 and that was the first video like that they’ve done for a while and it got 10 million views. Plus, I’ve always thought it’s weird how for every challenge each kid has a budget and must buy new things for two reasons. Firstly; they seemingly never learn so always buy stupid things like loads of sweets, instead of somewhere to sleep. Secondly; they’ve down enough challenges now that they pretty much have enough supplies bought now so couldn’t they just use what they already have, instead of giving a couple hundred dollars to your kids just for them to throw it away on crap. They don’t seem to do last to leave challenges as much and seem to do a lot of cooking, but don’t actually cook. At 13 and 15 Sabre and Sockie should at least now basics about cooking (like how to turn the heat down so hot oil doesn’t splash you and your food doesn’t burn) yet every challenge seem to just make something really easy but tasty so they win. For someone who idolises Gordon Ramsay, Sockie doesn’t seem to have much knowledge about cooking, at 13 I would make my family dinner every Tuesday as both my parents would come home late, yet Sockie can’t tell the difference between 3 and a 1/4 and 3/4, prancing around in a chef costume and pretending to cook isn’t cooking. As many others have commented here, why don’t her parents get her cooking lessons, they seem to be able to afford homeschooling tutors, separate editing computers for each child, I’m pretty sure they all are learning the guitar, skate and surfing gear, endless cash thrown away on challenges and $50,000 spent so she can meet Gordon Ramsay, but don’t bother to actually teach her how to cook.
I don’t have anything against their kids, I think they are just extremely sheltered by their parents and feel very sorry for them as I can’t imagine my entire life pretty much revolving around my home and family. I love my sisters and parents but am glad that I went to school and made friends, and was pushed by my parents to be independent, like getting myself to school and helping out with cooking, cleaning etc, life skills parent are meant to teach their children but it seems Brooke and Justin don’t seem to do this.
Sorry this is long, I hope I haven’t offended any one with my comment.