8 Reasons Dutch Kids are SO Spoiled

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this free online trial art class by sending an email to mail studio jocelyn dot nl today once again thank you so much to studio jocelyn for your support and now on to the video hi welcome to yogi's home so i have a question for you what comes to your mind when i say a spoiled child because i bet it's not exactly what i think so today i wanted to make this video with eight reasons why i think that dutch children are so spoiled so if you want to hear that if that sounds good to you then why don't you come on in kick off your shoes and stay a while i'm really glad you're here today's dutch word of the day is spoiled child or spoiled children and that is theravenda kimberlen spoiled children [Music] so let's hop right into it i have this list of eight reasons why i think dutch kids are super spoiled uh if you can think of more leave them in the comments i really love to see what you guys think um so yeah let's do it number one they live in a clean and safe country now on its own maybe this is not a reason to say that they're a super spoiled kid because lots of kids live in clean and safe countries right but when you look at the totality of the circumstances or all the things that i'm going to talk about this is really something that is um important in their quality of life and in their quality of well-being um and yeah i don't think that you could have everything else in the world like you can literally have everything else but if you can't go outside because where you live is super polluted or you know you can't swim in a river or like your quality of life is not going to be as good as the quality of life of a kid here that's just my opinion okay so take it or leave it but yeah dutch kids live in a clean and safe environment of course there is crime here there just like any other country but overall the netherlands is a very very nice place to live it is safe and it is clean for the most part you know i notice the difference when i travel to other european countries i feel like it's not as clean you know certainly when i travel to spain i i think that like i notice it i notice other countries not being as clean as the netherlands is so i wonder if you guys noticed that too let me let me know [Music] a good education system and that is set up in a way where the children are going to hopefully i mean most kids are going to succeed according to their own abilities and interests so this is something that i find quite interesting i do have a video about the dutch educational system i will link it somewhere here if you want to check it out but the way that the high schools are set up and everything where children go to a different type of a school depending on how they're performing in um like from a younger age i just find this so interesting um that there's not this like pressure to compete everybody all at the same level because not everybody is going to be doing the same kind of thing so i think that dutch kids are really spoiled in being able to receive an education that is in some way tailored to their abilities but also their interests so if you want to have an occupation that is like maybe you need to go to a specific type of technical school like like electrician or you want to be a painter or you want to be a hairdresser hairstylist or something you don't necessarily need to have the same level of education as somebody who wants to be a medical doctor and i love and respect the fact that that is something that in the netherlands they do take into account um also because not everybody can perform at that same level so here we go you are set up to succeed from a very young age [Music] dutch kids are incredibly spoiled with the level of independence and freedom that they get from a really young age um this is again something that you don't see in every country um maybe some of the western european countries you can be like yeah we have that here we have that in germany or we have it in denmark maybe you do but not everyone does and and i just i want to mention it here um my where my house is it looks onto the playground of the neighborhood okay so i'm constantly seeing all the kids in our neighborhood and it blows my mind that you see like a five-year-old and a three-year-old playing outside together with no parental supervision regularly like regularly there are so many kids in this neighborhood where i live and they're just like all the time outside playing together and with each other and they have that independence and that freedom to do that and that ties into the first point about the safety you know because obviously you're not going to let your kids do that if they're not safe but i just find it really really interesting and and that really allows you to develop your own independence and your own thoughts and have your own experiences from a super young age which is really interesting and dutch kids are spoiled totally spoiled in that regard you know that they are able to do that you also see very young children biking on their own to school um sometimes obviously you know once they're once their parents have trained them how to ride their own bike how to respect the rules of the road i think also at some point in school they also have um special bike lessons but it's absolutely common to see young kids going to and from school on their own on their own bike like and me and as an american or somebody really who grew up in like in a different system it's it takes me back i'm like where's that kid's parents oh yeah i live in the netherlands like it's cool it's cool and it's amazing to me there is really good support for low-income families here um whereby their children are also able to participate in a lot of extracurricular things that maybe their wealthier counterparts do what the hell does that mean yobe that's like a lot of words and that doesn't say anything what i mean to say is that most municipalities if not all and pretty sure all um have kind of like a low income pass here it's called the oivars pass but it's it has a different name throughout the country but it is this kind of past that is issued to low-income families and from that their children are allowed to enroll in sports dance uh music lessons ballet lessons um swimming lessons all these kind of like extracurricular activities art lessons like all this kind of thing that people who are not low income can and might enroll their kids in and pay for so what the government here does is that they give these passes to low-income families and i believe at least in my municipality or my town um they get two per year or two per season or whatever it is so these low-income kids can go to the same sports as non-low-income kids are all mixed together but those fees will be paid for by the government so that those children can have the same experiences and the same um yeah the same experiences as the as as other kids it's amazing i think that is such a wonderful that is such a wonderful way to make everybody feel included and nobody to feel excluded and for kids who have no control over what their parents jobs are or what their financial situation is that they still get to participate in society with everyone else and it's heartwarming to me probably if you're dutch you're like that's so normal um it's not normal everywhere and i really appreciate it and i feel like this is just another way that dutch kids or kids growing up in the netherlands get to be super duper spoiled [Music] here's one that literally blew my mind when i was pregnant with my first child um i received a letter during the course of my pregnancy saying hey um you're pregnant we we understand that um don't forget to sign up for this thing where we're gonna send you money every three months like every quarter for your child it's a child payment and i was like um i don't think that i qualify for that you know like both my husband and i have full-time jobs we're okay financially um but no no every single child in the netherlands is entitled to a payment quarterly from the government for you know uh for whatever you just every quarter you just get this sum of money in your bank account that is to be used i mean ideally for your child or supporting your child um and for each subsequent child you you get the same you know so if there's payments per child there's no limit there's the parents incomes does not play any role in in that and i just think that that is absolutely incredible [Music] all health care for children under the age of 18 is free of charge free of charge so all kids under the age of 18 as long as their parents are insured under dutch like as long as their parents are not under some kind of international scheme as long as you have a dutch health insurance your kids have free health care and it's not just healthcare it's also dental care so like regular checkups and cleanings and all that stuff that is free for kids under 18. sometimes sometimes some medicines might not be for free um the only thing that's coming to my mind right now is when my baby had like extreme diaper rash there's like a zinc cream that was not covered by insurance but it was like four euro so i did have to pay that out of pocket but i mean yeah spoiled i'm telling you dutch kids are totally spoiled [Music] so in my opinion everything in this country seems to be arranged around the idea of families and children being part of a family like that sounds so stupid okay that sounds i understand how that sounds to you guys you hear a lot of this like family's first type of stuff coming out of the united states but then they don't want to pay for children's healthcare you know things like this like this i feel like the netherlands like puts its money where its mouth is and they say that their families are important and then they deliver on those promises and so i really appreciate that but it goes a step further okay it really does in the sense that so many restaurants here have like a little kids corner they recognize that families are coming with kids and so they have these like special places for them we have some of the most amazing child friendly restaurants as well we discovered a restaurant with a freaking roller coaster i'm not exaggerating there's a roller coaster in this restaurant um for kids like i haven't seen that i have not seen that anywhere else [Music] and then the last thing that i want to talk about is fabulous holidays okay dutch kids get fabulous holidays and um this is not to say that you have to be super rich to give your kid an amazing holiday but this year for the first time i went on a very dutch holiday um meaning we stayed in the country we stayed here this summer and we did what's called like a dutch camping where we rented a bungalow in a bungalow park and uh close to the whole javelin at the national forest these holiday parks i went to the drone park big bear not sponsored but you know in case you want to know first of all we get into our little um bungalow our holiday house and everything is baby proofed every single plug like socket and everything is already baby proofed all the the kitchen drawers and things they have the baby proofing on them and i was just like wow i don't remember ever going anywhere else and everything just being baby-proofed already i don't have a baby i don't need the baby proofing anymore but i just was so impressed with the thoughtfulness of like how nice it is as a parent to go to a place and not have to worry about that i don't know it blew my mind um then then all the all the the like the pool was super kid-friendly the there was playgrounds no matter where you look there was all these features and things that were like really meant for kids um to have an amazing time there was the animation team there was just like i was totally jealous of my two kids i could not be also a kid in the netherlands growing up and having this kind of life like amazing amazing so yeah these are my eight reasons you guys why i think that dutch kids are absolutely the most spoiled children in the whole entire world these things contribute to their happiness and success and health as adults and and yeah i just i'm amazed and i feel so happy to be raising little dutch kids even though they're not dutch but like to be raising kids here in the netherlands because i'm i'm really happy to spoil them in these kind of ways you know it's amazing i'm curious to hear what are your thoughts on spoiling your dutch kids and yeah i i i can't wait to read them in the comments below thank you guys so so much for coming over thank you for spending some time with me today that completes this video and i will see you in the next one [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 17min 4sec (1024 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 12 2021