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Sorry this is off-topic. but I hope you'll take a second to read because it is something I feel really strongly about.
Background:
if you're not familiar with the Saccone-Joly family, Anna and Jonathan are Gleamers who daily vlog their two little toddlers, and have appeared in quite a few of Zoella's videos. they display some dubious parenting to say the least, but something has eventuated in the last week that is causing quite a bit of concern, even among their loyal (read: not critical) fans. Emilia (2.5yrs) appears to have had an episode on camera, which Anna and Jonathan are dismissing as her 'playing around' although she's done it more than once, and has a history of health issues (stopped breathing as an infant, but was never taken to the doctors). Several actual doctors and nurses, as well as parents with children who suffer absence seizures have commented and tweeted the family asking them to consider taking her a physician just to make sure she is okay. Those comments are being deleted, and responded to rudely on social media. A poster in the thread on GG has contacted their management Gleam, and started a petition for concerned viewers to add their name to bring some weight to it. Please, if you have 30 seconds, add your details to the list. It doesn't display your email, address, nor last name unless you add a comment (can leave that box blank). you won't receive any contact as a result, it's merely to lend your support to the numbers.
Here is a link to the vlog in question, from 1.20; but starts at 1.34 when she can't say her brothers' name: (she's trying to say 'with Wardo")
link to discussion in GG thread: viewtopic.php?f=345&t=18361&p=1534632
I know it's difficult to know if this is normal behaviour for a child if you are not familiar with their daily behaviour; but as she has been vlogged every day since birth, regular viewers are quite concerned. it's not within Emilia's normal joking around, the dizziness especially (Jonathan reaching out to steady her) is cause for concern. No one is for sure saying she is having an absence seizure, but their refusal to take her to the doctors when she has displayed this on more than one occasion and seemingly out of nowhere (no one has taught her it as a joke, her father admits in other vlogs) is worrying. That is all the petition aims to do, merely force them to take her to a physician and take the issue seriously. There are some other safety issues outlined in mistreatment thread within the GG section i linked above, including rough handling, and neither child currently being driven in proper carseats, which is a legal requirement in the UK and carries consequences.
Background:
if you're not familiar with the Saccone-Joly family, Anna and Jonathan are Gleamers who daily vlog their two little toddlers, and have appeared in quite a few of Zoella's videos. they display some dubious parenting to say the least, but something has eventuated in the last week that is causing quite a bit of concern, even among their loyal (read: not critical) fans. Emilia (2.5yrs) appears to have had an episode on camera, which Anna and Jonathan are dismissing as her 'playing around' although she's done it more than once, and has a history of health issues (stopped breathing as an infant, but was never taken to the doctors). Several actual doctors and nurses, as well as parents with children who suffer absence seizures have commented and tweeted the family asking them to consider taking her a physician just to make sure she is okay. Those comments are being deleted, and responded to rudely on social media. A poster in the thread on GG has contacted their management Gleam, and started a petition for concerned viewers to add their name to bring some weight to it. Please, if you have 30 seconds, add your details to the list. It doesn't display your email, address, nor last name unless you add a comment (can leave that box blank). you won't receive any contact as a result, it's merely to lend your support to the numbers.
Here is a link to the vlog in question, from 1.20; but starts at 1.34 when she can't say her brothers' name: (she's trying to say 'with Wardo")
link to discussion in GG thread: viewtopic.php?f=345&t=18361&p=1534632
I know it's difficult to know if this is normal behaviour for a child if you are not familiar with their daily behaviour; but as she has been vlogged every day since birth, regular viewers are quite concerned. it's not within Emilia's normal joking around, the dizziness especially (Jonathan reaching out to steady her) is cause for concern. No one is for sure saying she is having an absence seizure, but their refusal to take her to the doctors when she has displayed this on more than one occasion and seemingly out of nowhere (no one has taught her it as a joke, her father admits in other vlogs) is worrying. That is all the petition aims to do, merely force them to take her to a physician and take the issue seriously. There are some other safety issues outlined in mistreatment thread within the GG section i linked above, including rough handling, and neither child currently being driven in proper carseats, which is a legal requirement in the UK and carries consequences.