I hate to break it to y'all but this world is a little bit of a messed up
place and that's why parents and society as a whole needs to step their game up
what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is
all about mental health and what I like to do is pull different topics from the
YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional
well-being so the end of that make sure you subscribe and bring that
notification bell so yeah I wanted to do a quick follow-up to my part one review
of the illymation abusive ex-boyfriend story there's so much to say like this
morning I woke up early and I kind of like sort of just looking at the
comments and the feedback on both my videos and her videos and I'm like oh my
god there are so many issues in this world so today I want to focus on Ilum
ation and society and parenting and just conversation and one of the reasons I
have this channel so it was brought to my attention from my comment section
that some people were saying that aleem a ssin talking about this and having
such a young audience is a bad thing and you guys like this this is awful like
this is terrible like I don't know about the rest of you but when I was growing
up they didn't teach me about mental health they didn't teach me about
keeping my emotions under control they didn't teach me about emotional abuse
and like it's it's getting a little better from what I hear from some of my
teacher friends but it's not better by like like where it should be all right
so like people were saying that illymation animation channel shouldn't be talking about
this stuff and I'm just like what are you talking about like you guys I cannot
make it clear enough to you like if you're watching this I don't care how
old you are I don't care if you have kids or not like we just need to start
having this conversation like like things are not going to go away just
because you don't talk about them all right like that's just not how
things work and I see this happen cost so a very long time ago long long time
ago only about a year ago I made a video called bare minimum parenting and it
sucks because a lot of parents don't want to have conversations with their
kids and why because it makes them uncomfortable and it's weird and you
know or some some parents just don't like to think about the bad things that
can happen and we need to have conversations with our kids
that are age-appropriate right so for example with my son and I mentioned in
my video yesterday I talked to my son about you know predator behavior and
like what to look out for with adults like okay let me give you let me give
you a few examples I remember when I was a kid like and this is way back in the
day there's a weird mark where you know it's like an after school commercial
special I think was a commercial and there was like like a guy who like went
to pick up a kid and one way that he was trying to lure the kid in the car was by
saying hey your parents um you know they're in the hospital and they told me
to come pick you up and da da da da da right and like it was a stranger and he
was doing this and you know the the commercial or whatever kind of explained
how like a stranger might get your information they might hear somebody say
your name and then they'll try to make up a story to lure you in the car and
all this like that's something that stuck with me since I was a kid and it's
something that I've had conversations with my son about like just randomly and
this is why you know anxiety isn't always a bad King like I'm not a super
overbearing helicopter parent but I've had conversations with my son like hey
if an adult comes up to you and says that me or mommy is in trouble or you
know your grandma or whoever it is and wants you to get in the car with them
like no you know what I mean we have conversations about what to do you know
go talk to you know your teacher or your principal or you know a school monitor
or whoever it is right like we have to have these conversations with our kids
because you know what like it's unfortunate it's unfortunate but
whatever like we talk about the problem but focus on the solution like it's
unfortunate that schools don't do a better job of this but you know the way
I see it schools are there to teach you about math and geography and science and
biology and all that stuff I think sometimes as parents and a lot of you
teachers out there watching my videos you know what I'm talking about
a lot of people like put way too much responsibility on schools and teachers
it's like okay well what are we supposed to do what are we supposed to do as
parents like we're supposed to just like feed them and clothe them and then
everything else is everybody else's responsibility like I'm sorry that's not
how it works so like I'm so glad that alienation is
talking about this and there's not and it's not all bad like don't get it
twisted either this was brought to my attention but I spent some time looking
through her Twitter I was looking through the comments also going through
my comments and it seems like there is a select group of people who are saying
things like she shouldn't be talking about this to such a young audience you
know what I mean but there's there's also a ton of like good feedback as well
but one of the last things I want to say on that on that note of kind of like we
need to talk to people about this is a recent story that happened to me is I
was doing some work with a local drug and alcohol treatment center and like we
we were going to set up a booth we what we were trying to set up a booth for our
treatment center at this like school event like an elementary school event
and like you know just like hey we're a new outpatient treatment center for drug
and alcohol abuse in the community here's our information right and like
when the principal heard about that they were like absolutely not absolutely not
they're like we don't want that at our school right like they were treating us
like we were going to be handing out drugs at our booth right but like it
just makes me remember like this is the issue people think that if we don't talk
about the problem it's gonna go away I did a poll a few months ago about like
asking how many of you how many of my viewers are children of alcoholics and
addicts and the the majority is like it's the majority so many of us like I'm
the child of an alcoholic or an addict parent like why are kids like why are we
not gonna talk to kids about these things like kids are struggling with
this stuff no matter what you do no matter how much you don't talk about it
alright but I do want to end this video on a positive note there's so much good
so much good that has come from illy mation talking about this and her
abusive ex-boyfriend and the grooming and everything I covered in my video
yesterday like looking through the comments I saw so many people like
saying I could relate this happened to me and this is you know and and then
there was like parents saying oh my god I didn't realize this was happening
and all sorts of things and it's just we need to have conversations with our kids
and I don't have enough time to make to include it in this video but like I said
it's age-appropriate alright we need to have conversations little kids that are
age-appropriate and it's not to make them think that the world is a terrible
scary place or anything like that but we need to be prepared it's the same reason
you do a fire drill it doesn't mean that you're you know you're the school is
constantly on fire but if a fire does happen you'd know what to do so I
appreciate alienation I'm going to be reviewing for part two video some other
topics that I want to talk about because apparently the Internet is trying to
like hunt down her ex which is bananas like calm down I'll make an entire video
about that later haha but anyways let me know down in the
comments below like did did you learn about these things like mental health
abuse grooming did you learn about those as a kid or did the school or your
parents not teach you about this stuff like let me know down in the comments
below okay like I'm trying to figure this out because sometimes I think it
was only me that wasn't educated about mental health and all that stuff alright
anyways that's all I got with this video if you like this video please give it a
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