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  • Parents.

  • I, like many people, I have parents.

  • And even better!

  • I think they're pretty good ones!

  • My mom and dad have always wanted the best for me and

  • my brother and didn't let us do stupid stuff like lean back too far in our

  • chairs at the dinner table... So good job on not letting us be stupid guys! Thumbs

  • up. Gold star.... Well, I did lean back too far that one time, but I'll give you a pass

  • on that one. And I learned my lesson... Everyone has some sort of guardian

  • figure in their life and I'm always going to be grateful I was able to grow

  • up in a loving family with good parents. There's been ups and downs; arguments,

  • disagreements... But when it all comes down to it; they're just looking out for me.

  • "Jaden, tie your shoes before riding your bike" "pfft, what do you know?"

  • I'm actually at a big step in my life right now, because I'm moving out of their house. I'll

  • finally be out of the nest making my own choices. A free bird... If I want to have

  • oatmeal for dinner my family is not going to be there to walk in and look at

  • me weird. I don't care about your "oatmeal is a breakfast food", I like it and will

  • eat it when I desire! Just watch me! Moving out has made me think a lot about

  • my life growing up and everything my parents have done for me to be able to

  • get to this point, and even though I can totally make a heartfelt video about all

  • the sacrifices they've made, and nights they've spent caring for me... I'm going to

  • talk about funny stupid stuff because that makes a better YouTube video. I'm on

  • my own now, I got bills to pay! when I was little I was into a picky eater. I'm

  • pretty sure I ate almost anything on my plate. Some kids are all "No, I do not

  • like the taste of this mush, and will not consume it no matter what you tell me! I

  • will sit here with a pouty lip and arms crossed for all eternity in this high

  • chair and when I die of starvation it will be. Your. Fault!"

  • "Hun, just eat the friggin carrots..." Even though I wasn't a picky eater, my parents

  • would always make up games to try and get me to eat stuff I still didn't like. One

  • night, we're all the dinner table and my mom had the brilliant parent idea of

  • saying "Hey, how about we have a contest of who can eat the most green beans the

  • quickest?" Harmless, right? She was just thinking it would be an easy and sneaky

  • way for us to get into our vegetables. But she underestimated my power. "You dare

  • challenge me?! Not only will I win, but I will eat the most green beans you've

  • ever seen anyone eat in their entire life!"

  • I ate so many green beans in such a short amount of time that night. I won,

  • obviously, (because everyone else is a scrub) but after dinner I got really sick

  • and my mom's plan kind of backfired. But I still won so... Besides the infamous green

  • bean-eating-contest (which we never did again), my mum always had a "who can make the

  • loudest carrot crunch?" competition. I don't need to explain the rules, it's right in

  • the name... My brother and I would go CRAZY over that contest. We didn't even think

  • about how we were eating carrots, we just wanted to DEFEAT EVERYONE ELSE. It wasn't

  • until recently I was thinking about it, and went "wait did you make that contest

  • just so we'd eat more carrots?" "Heh. Yeah." *Gasp!* Betrayal!

  • Even my mom's sister was tricky with my cousins and getting them to eat their

  • vegetables. My mom told me stories about how when my cousin was just barely

  • learning numbers and counting, they'd be eating dinner and she'd say to my aunt

  • "Mummy, I don't want any more carrots." "How about you just eat three more?" "How about...

  • five?" "Hmm... Well, okay fine!"Parents have become the masters of getting kids to eat

  • vegetables. Which is good, I applaud them for it. Nutrition is important, kids! Like,

  • how many times has your mum just randomly baked you brownies as a kid? And how many

  • times did you think about if there's broccoli in it?

  • "HAH! Gotchya kiddo, you're getting so much vitamin C and K right now you don't even

  • know!" if you didn't know about that, there's a way you can hide broccoli in

  • brownies as an easy way to get kids to consume more nutrients without them

  • fighting you because they only want to live off sugar... Brownies are good at

  • hiding a lot of stuff actually. Have you ever heard of black bean brownies?

  • There's ways you can add black beans to brownies, and, no one will even know.

  • Here's one. Go and try it. I-uh if you want... It's a good way to add protein to your

  • diet, because everyone's so obsessed with protein and for some reason society

  • thinks it's the only macronutrient we ever need and carbs are the devil and

  • will DESTROY YOUR LIFE and KILL EVERYONE YOU LOVE. And, so that's a tangent for another

  • video... So, yeah. Two people who didn't know. You can hide broccoli in brownies, black

  • beans (some people try other herbs), let's move on. I'm going to tell this story

  • because it's kind of stupid and doesn't matter but I'm still a bit salty about

  • this so you'll probably get a kick out of it. Every kid has their thing growing

  • up. Some likes dolls, some like cards, some like pushing other

  • kids off the swings. I was all about stuffed animals.

  • They were my JAM. Still kinda are. Anyway, one day I said; "Hey, I like stuffed

  • animals, and I like Pokemon. *GASP* Mum! Blaziken Plush! OH MY FRIG! "Dont say frig."

  • My mind was BLOWN - two of my favourite things combined together.

  • Blaziken was, and is, my favorite Pokemon so I was desperate to have this Blaziken

  • pokedoll. I was willing to wash the dishes, clean the house, make a deal with

  • the under lord, sell lemonade - and since my mom's such a pushover. *Technical Difficulties*

  • And since my mom so *nice* she let me and my brother pick out a poke

  • doll we each like. I, of course, picked out the Blaziken. And my brother got the

  • Totodile one. And can we just stop and appreciate this Totodile by the way?

  • Let's continue. So my mom ordered the plushies (they were like 20 bucks or

  • something), and we were pretty happy campers when they arrived.

  • I LOVED that Blaziken doll for a really long time, but of course as with most

  • children and their toys, I started playing with it less after a while.

  • I still liked it! But I gradually stopped bringing it everywhere, and eventually

  • just kept it in my closet. Maybe like a couple years ago the memory of it just

  • popped into my head, and I wanted to look at it again. "Yeah, I remember all the fun

  • times I had with that doll! I'd take it everywhere I went, I fell asleep with it...

  • Where'd it go? I don't remember where it would be... Mum, do you know where my old

  • Blaziken pokedoll went? I can't find it."

  • "I got rid of it." YOU WHAT?? Sometime, while mum going though all our stuff,

  • she decided to get rid of my Blaziken pokedoll - WITHOUT ASKING ME! I was

  • crushed!... pfft Well that is a bit extreme... I went from having a normal day to having

  • a bit of a, less good day... But then I thought 'Wait, I'm an adult, I can just

  • find another one and buy it myself. I don't need my mom's permission anymore!'

  • So I looked on Google to try and find a new Blaziken pokedoll and, APPARENTLY,

  • now they're ultra-rare collector's items that aren't even being sold

  • anymore and are freaking worth a crap ton of money!

  • "NOW I'm having even LESS of a good day!" Yeah, apparently these things are worth,

  • like, more than a hundred bucks now and everyone's desperate to have one, and we

  • bought it when it was like $20! Mum, do you realise what you've done?! So it's

  • become my GOAL. Someday I will have another Blaziken pokedoll. 1. Because...

  • I really like it. And 2. I'm not a collector of anything, but (now this might

  • seem a bit evil to people in the rare collectors community) I want to have as

  • many rare pokedolls as I can find, just because I'm not a collector... I want to

  • have all these pokedolls that are super rare and then a collectors like

  • "Holy crap! You have the set of the Hoenn starter evolution pokedolls!? Can I have

  • them?" And I can be like "No." "Aaa, do you realise how RARE these are? Collectors like me

  • would pay anything to have them!" "I know. and that's why I want it". *giggle* I'm on a journey

  • to get as many rare pokedolls as I can now. I think my target is Blaziken,

  • Swampert and Sceptile, because it's the trio and they're my absolute favorite

  • (and their stupid rare). It's an evil plan! I know. But I, think it's funny. This video

  • ended up being like, 60% of me talking about getting tricked into eating

  • vegetables... I have more stuff to tell so I guess there's room for a sequel video. It

  • won't be next though, because I like having other videos in between sequels...

  • but it's on the list! There's also coincidentally my mum's

  • birthday the other day, so happy birthday mum!

  • I'm going to take you out to dinner soon I just have to get this video done... But

  • it's up now! So, yeah. Let me know where you want to go. Anyway, I think there is

  • something else I wanted to say here, and I think it was important because I

  • remember thinking to myself, "Oh I don't need to write that down, it's too

  • important for me to forget!" Or something like that, and... Here we are... This is a bit

  • awkward. Watch I'm going to remember right as I click upload for this video,

  • because that's totally something my brain would do to me. Well I guess that's that.

Parents.

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