Imagine being a young girl and being told being beautiful is everything, and she can't read or write and her mother says she knows enough, how incredibly sad

I can't imagine not being able to pick up a book and read.

It's wild to me how differently the girls and boys are. Boys are getting solid advice, where the little girls are being told "reading isn't important"

I just don't understand why they don't want more for their children. Even if the adults can't read or write, they can surely find someone to teach the children.

Anyone else find this all terribly sad for these kids. Their lack of education, hence opportunities, is heartbreaking. The focus for the girls to look nice but not even able to read ..how can that be all you want for your childrens future??

Tony seems like a good role model for the boys. All the kids are well mannered respectful kids they’ve been brought up well

Good looks will fade. Reading is a gift for life. It's so sad that they don't have the ability/gift of being able to read.

The art that the old wooden trailers show is breathtaking and I hope the girl will forever hold on to her memories about her granddad and speak about it! 🫶

They dont want to be judged, yet are taught to judge the gorgers. 😂 its so funny to me

Bless her heart. She said they can read and she can’t. That’s so sad. 😢😢. I know they can do other things. But they should be able to read and write. They’ll need it to get though life.

I would love to see a "where are they now" episode

Seen "uncle" tony on a few gypsy shows now, he seems like a really great guy

These little girls are going to end up getting married at a really young age and have to depend fully on their husbands. Most of them have nothing to fall back on if the marriage doesn’t work out. The parents should GIVE them a better education! At least teach them to read and write.

I can’t comprehend depriving a child of being able to simple read and write. It’s basic human education. So sad.

I lived on campsites outside Paris & Amsterdam in the 90s. There were gypsies there, and since we lived there, we got to know them a bit. They were family oriented, friendly, but did keep to themselves more. They loaned us tools when we needed. They seemed responsible and didn't cause any trouble. I feel weird calling them travelers though because we called each other travelers. People who didn't just travel on holiday. People who lived traveling as a lifestyle. Getting odd jobs here and there and/or busking to stay in the same place for weeks or months at a time. It's similar to a Gypsy lifestyle, I guess, but different. Same same but different :))

These children are just lovely. They are so well spoken and have a good grasp of their history and culture. Imagine what they could accomplish with a little more encouragement in education.

That first boy Royston is so sweet. Obviously he's been raised with good morals, a busy mind and dedicated hobbys and that's the ultimate brain workout for any human. I like how his Dad is teaching him HOW to work rather than just making him do hard labour with no skills. You can see how carefully he was doing the work and how proud he was with himself for a job well done. His Dad standing back and allowing his son to do things under his watchful eye, shows his son that he has faith in his ability and trusts him, something a lot of parents should do. Be there for support but step back a bit more, you don't protect a child from the harsh realities of life by wrapping them in cotton wool and doing everything for them. You protect them better by empowering them and openly admiring their strengths. Good job Dad on the quality of work too. I'd be hesitant to hire a traveller to carry out pricey work like that, because so many of them have no skills. Sorry but that's not prejudice it's the truth. I had a Father and son do my garden last year, just cutting grass and tidying borders, no building work thank God, and to say it was shoddy is an understatement. I was then practically intimidated on my doorstep into paying a ridiculous sum even though I made it clear it was not good enough! Never again! But I'd hire this professional father in a heartbeat, as his work shows skill and attention to detail. It doesn't bother me if someone has no actual official qualifications, because many many people ARE just as skilled but learned through a parent how to do trade type work, like how my Dad taught me to decorate and use tools and my Mum taught me to cook and sew etc. I enjoyed hearing about this young man and his background. He's a lovely boy who's been raised right. But no doubt I'm about to be disappointed seeing the different way girls are treated....🙄 .................................... Watched a bit more and one thing I AM disappointed in, is how many NON traveller BRATS are bullying these children. My heart is aching for hearing their stories from school. The little girl with her designer bags "I bet you think I'm spoilt?" No sweetheart I don't think you're spoilt for having expensive items. Being spoilt is about DEMANDING and EXPECTING to be given everything you want. All I see is a pretty little girl, a bit lost since her parents split up, missing the friends from where she used to live, and being bullied by the new children she's trying to make friends with. Her Mum and Dad spending money on her is purely because they dote on her, as they should, and trying to boost her confidence about herself while kids from OUR families are trying to tear her down! Those two little boys talking to Tony whilst polishing his car.... OMFG I've got such a lump in my throat and on the verge of tears! Just LOOK at how forlorn, vulnerable, young and fragile those precious boys are, AGAIN from being bullied at school! WTF are their SCHOOLS playing at FFS? Too worried about their damn OFSTED score that they probably fob off rumours of bullying in their school. *"We take a very strong anti-bullying stance in our school which is why there's so few incidents of bullying here, which we are extremely proud off" blah blah fucking BLAHHHHH!* That's the kind of bullshit most schools come out with. No, the REASON they have little bullying is because they refuse to acknowledge incidents as "bullying". They either outright ignore bullying, or will attack the victim for the second time, by implying they instigated it. That it was a *"six of one, and half a dozen of the other"* type of incident. These children are just sweet young babies, and it makes no difference where they come from, race, country, lifestyle or colour, they should not have to go to school where every day they have to endure that. That's on ALL PARENTS to teach their kids not to be a bullying little bastard! 😠 I'm literally smiling with all of the children, but that lil chubby Alicia I think she's called...? She is adorable. They all are don't get me wrong, every single one has been impressive, mature, confident, wise, grounded and well behaved, all of their parents have done a great job of raising such lovely thoughtful children. But that gorgeous little cheeky chubby chops with her glasses on and unruly hair, has melted my heart the most. I absolutely love her. ❤

"They try and make thereself look nice and just go over the top." 😂😂 Brilliant.

I have lived around some of these people. My main gripe is their almost total unawareness of feelings of animals. Horses worked to death, beaten and starved. Puppies and kittens too young to leave the mother, taken and used to incite pity in begging. Children injected with caustic agents to cause terrible lesions and sores for adults to point to while they ask for money to pay a dr. (Kid never gets near a dr in reality) A very hard situation to encounter. I feel sorrow and pity mostly, if I am being honest. A lot of innocence suffers for their stated Gypsy freedom.

Not against their culture but everyone needs to read and write and finish high school

Tony is a good role model for the boys 😊

Oh my! Young Rachel, I remember her being christened at Appleby fair on BFGW several years ago.

I have always been curious about the economics of these people. Were the money come from? Who in the family controls the finances? The housing whilst living in a caravan. The apparent high maintenance of the girls and women. A fascinating society.

Rachel is an amazing little girl! I hope she can do what SHE wants to do with her life while holding on to her culture. All the kids...so innocent...I hope their lives are good.😢

Crime that mom has lied to her kid and told her the reason that she doesn't have friends is because the other girls are jealous that she has 'nicer' clothes. Of course, that's probably what she was told as well...

What fabulous children, bright, switched on, polite, responsible and full of life.

Not many believe that there is even ONE thing wrong with how the Roma look, women can be beautiful and men very handsome. That is not the problem people have in reality. It's more behaviors like dishonesty, theft, damaging property, treatment of other living things. I guess it's easy to believe everyone just hates you cause you are too, too beautiful and they are just jealous. But we ALL ultimately know that isn't true.

Uncle Tony is solid. Giving the boys good advice !

I couldn’t imagine walking around in my own country of birth and not being able to read or write the language. Reading anything from a sign to a recipe… reading is a necessity

It's incongruous to see how the males won't lift a finger in the home, but have such attention to detail with they car.

I wonder if their kids are still playing outside or if they are on their phones like so many kids are nowadays. An expert said "we've replaced a play-based childhood with a phone-based one."

Years ago information was passed parent to child and communities supported one another. Today education is important for this modern world but that’s all it’s rich in. Kids join gangs to feel they belong kids have lost social skills and don’t see the beauty in the world around them as too busy on phones and tec. Ppl don’t come together to support one another! So really who’s to say who has the richer more fulfilling life it’s only measured by what we ourselves class as important. No life that is walked is perfect but it’s what’s right for you. We should all learn from each other ❤

What lovely children . That little girl really misses her precious grandad. Bless her. I wish they could have a good education though.

What is the age children are legally mandated to attend school? Is there an agency that checks in on these children to make sure they can read, write, and do basic arithmetic?

I don’t think Gypsys are as different as they think they are.

Tony seems such a good role model, what a sound dude🥰

I'd like to see them create their own schools to teach reading, writing and math for their own good and benefit.

Horrible that these children are so bullied at school. They are children, and don't deserve to be taunted. No wonder they don't stay.

LOL ALL her Louis Vuitton and Chanel bags are fake. I'm dead!! 😂

Heartbreaking in 2024 in the uk that so many kids have such limited choices

Love a resilient culture.

In the early 00s in hmp low newton i used to read a woman called maggie(a traveler fr liverpool) letters to her. She was a very intelligent & interesting lady regardless to her lack of formal education she was clever & knew alot about about alot, she taught me a few things bless her.

I used to judge these people and I still don’t agree with a lot of their practices…but I do appreciate how they treasure what they have and they take care of it. May they have the options in life…

Felt like i was watching underage aunties instead of children.

I wanted to add I wanted to like many of the comments because what was expressed is how I feel and agree

So like.. looking at it from their cultures shoes... Can't they see that reading and writing would be beneficial even as a homemaker? Follow recipes for cooking, patterns if you make clothes, instructions on cleaning products or HOW to clean certain things, reading books to entertain small children not in school. It's to their benefit that they at LEAST read and write.... Not being able to is such a weird hill to die on.

I have nothing against living in a travel trailer. The kids are clean and well kept. The boy that is boxing I think he’ll go far in life. They don’t seem to be lazy kids. 🙏🏻❤️❤️👍🏻

That wagon is gorgeous

SHE KNOWS ENOUGH

The kids deserve a lot more. It makes me sad tht expensive things and thinking that a kid can say when they know enough. They don’t. There is so so much out there to learn and see. I started saving up for my son to be able to see the world or college when he is older. Everything is getting so expensive. I want him to work hard to get ahead. When I was a kid I drank from the hose, got dirty and etc. Rachel is talking about never coming out of the house not fixed up because it is shameful. How sad

Being illiterate is a sure fire way to guarantee you get taken advantage of and stomped down in life. Literacy is freedom.

This is their culture. It seems the kids love it and are proud. How about we just let them live instead of judging

The girls and boys grow up so quickly, the boys working full jobs and the girls being taught how to be a "wife" and home keeper...no education and not wanting their kids to have good education or life skills...how sad. Those poor kids. And the fact young girls get taught to deal with everything like SA at a young age is so awful. They are CHILDREN it's awful. If a culture is harmful towards people then it isn't a good one

You are who you are I may not feel its the best life but you love your kids and thats what counts ❤❤

They are very bright, confident and wonderful children :) I hurts my heart that they get bullied

Amazing

The thing that gets me is when they complain in other episodes about not having anywhere to live permanently, not having school to go to…. Do they not realize their parents actively chose that situation for them?! No one to blame except their own parents. The world isn’t dealing you this hand, your family is. And also, if you want a stable place to live you’re going to have to pay for it and pay taxes like the rest of us. Saying you don’t bother anyone but then illegally staying on kids playgrounds and using sand boxes and playgrounds as toilets is not “keeping to yourself.” Its menacing.

Those babies are just precious

We need to start teaching all females there is no such thing as prince charming! Earn your own money. Education is power.

I think the lack of education has to do with preservation of the culture. Their culture is so strong because it has not been altered much from it's origin. I see there are different types of gypies, but their central system of morals and values are strong. Don't get me wrong I believe in education. I would want everyone in the world to be able to go to school and develop, but I think it is about priority, cultural perspective of the educational system, and preservation. If you limit what is learned from a societal point of view, you can indoctrinate in a way. They seem to be happy and as long as they have their communities they can thrive in their own way. Not everyone has to be obsessed with a mainstream idea of success. We access education to grow as individuals, enlarge our perspectives, find talents and gifts, choose occupations, and for monetary gain. I suppose there are multiple ways to gain those same things. But, I do not know what I would do if I couldn't read. I love books too much to not be able to read of the adventure, ideologies, dreams, and curiosities that can be found within a book. As for being "beautiful" can be defined in so many ways. I hope they spend as much time shaping the personalities and "hearts" as they spend on the outside. I can gently relate with the obsession with looking nice. In my own community, Black Americans are the biggest population of consumers, yet have the least amount of wealth. I know a number of people who thrive on "beauty" even down to colorism, which I am learning colorism affects many population groups. Even in a Romanian Gypsy documentary, they spoke on how during the "dating season" it is important for women to look as pale as possible, less color the better. I say all this to say, there are so many demands on beauty that it is important to have "heart" or you will get lost. I also would hate for a woman's was based on her "beauty"... ironic right? Culture, is culture. What works for some might not work for another. As "we" as humanity continue to grow and Western influence continues to dominate a global expectation, it will be interesting to see if their communal expectations/requirements on education/ beauty/ marriage/ etc changes. Its impressive that they can trace their roots and continue to build branches.

That poor girl has had all of her mother’s insecurities projected on her

16:39 - holy MOLEy!

“Im not spoiled” said the most spoiled brat on earth. Yuck.

What a lovely video, letting us know what it's like for the travelling children of today, all I can see, is name calling & ridicules never changes, god bless the Gypsies & Travelers ❤❤❤❤❤

These kids are beautiful and sweet. Great job parenting! Loved the cool Uncle teaching the boys to ignore crap

it is so sad to see the money they spend on luxury bags and perfumes for their daughters but they put no money or effort into their education. the girl can't read and write at 11 years old. so so so sad.

I love how the kids run free, reminds me of my own childhood. Our kids don’t have safe sites with Aunts Uncles etc looking out for them. Education isn’t the best all and end all to them and that’s their prerogative. They are clean, they look after their own and happy can we say the same.

Beautiful boy. Good role model. Traveller or not he's a good fighter and deserves to be known for that, traveller or not..absolutely love travellers 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰❤️ love your history and way of life.. ❤❤❤❤❤

I really don’t like judging people and i never normally would, but the all the experiences (although few) I’ve had with travellers have been overwhelmingly negative. When i worked as a bartender a group of middle aged traveller men and their wives refused to leave after closing (mind this was at like 1 in the morning and we all just wanted to go home) and we had to call the police and they got so aggressive. They just wanted to stay just to be aggravating, no other reason other than that.

Wow I found this program so uplifting & these wonderful children made me smile.... I have watched them all & find their culture & way of life so heartwarming... cant wait for the next one ... xx

"They try to make themselves look nice and then they just go over the top" 🤣

These children are so sweet , well mannered and so bright , well done to their parents xx

I feel sorry for Annie. Mum has doomed her to a life of nothingness

I don't understand how they fit everything in trailers. Kids will appreciate things more if not just handed to them & learn the value of a dollar.

Does England not have mandatory school attendance requirements for certain ages?

I think it’s weird for the parents & kids to all sleep in the same caravan… I mean that can’t be good for a marriage no privacy.

Brillant, loved it and love the gypsies

Everyone has their own way. I have met some nice and some not so nice people from their community. I just think they need to work on their respect and the way they communicate with people. The main reason people dislike them is because they steal and leave places absolutely disgusting when they finally decide to abandon a site they have invaded

This is so sad that so much emphasis is put on looks and not education. This is tragic. Is this allowed in UK??? What a shame. These girls Are so much more than what you see.

The narrator is the actor that plays Tim on Coronation Street!

Royston(?) is very bright and able, and remarkably articulate for his age. I admire how proud he is of his paving work. With a bit more academic education he could go further still.

Are they the kids of the brides from My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding??

It should be illegal to raise your children like this. I feel incredibly sorry for them.

The children are little dotes, good manners, well raised.

Why don't their parents let children go to high school. High school is most important because of exams. My family are travellers but I still went to high school and college

It's a shame how materialistic they are. Not knowing how to read & write is a problem. Leaving school before the basics isn't ok.

It's so sad that these girls aren't allowed to finish school, go to college and get a career, instead they are taught they have to get married, remain beautiful, clean house and have children and take care of them all by the time they are sixteen-eighteen years old.

I am at a loss for words. I am poor in a small rural Oregon town and I have two toddler girls. I cannot imagine raising them to believe the beauty is everything. That they don't need to learn anything. All they need to know is how to cook and clean and take care of their men. What is sad, horrible existence to live in 2024. I couldn't imagine taking my children out of school at 11 years old and telling them to stay home and raise the kids I made😢 i pray for those girls. With that being said I will say that their kids are well-dressed and well cared for compared to poor USA kids. The parents here will take care of theirselves before they take care of their kids it seems like. I'm sorry but my girls will be pretty and hair done and me looking like crap before I will look nice in my kids look like crap js

I like that they actually talk about the bigotry they deal with

Showing all the cheap knock off brands like that makes them a better person is just sad. They should be taught values and manners . Not to value fake labels!

Cute kids. Sometimes we don't understand how other people live and why they live like they do. We dont have to understand them to treat them kindly. So, you wouldn't raise your daughter like that or you wouldn't raise your son like that. Fine. You don't have to. The important thing is those kids are loved and cared for. They are happy outside playing. They are proud of their culture. Laws aren't being broken. Let them live the way they want and you can live how you want.

Its a shame there are a few travellers that give them a bad name 😞 great insight!

Selling off your daughters to climb your way up… knowing she will become a slave to him and his funny. It’s disgusting

this is down right abuse/neglect. How is this normal? The child's mother of the girl is a narcissist and is living vicariously through her

Honestly, this is also what many families and society teaches in many countries. Botox and boobjob at 16, fake lashes and lip injections…of course they are teenagers then, but it’s just as bad to teach those values. That beeing beautiful is so important.

How sad😢

She looks like a 12 year old woah vicky

When a husband dies or they divorce, how are the woman and children supported?

Royston’s back will be done in before he’s an adult ! Guaranteed !

I would like to know more about thier religous beliefs. I see the have grand weddings inside churches, but what are thier spiritual beliefs about God? Id love a whole episode on that. What if a traveler changes religion? Does that happen?