Edward Owen Seewald is one month old, and the Seewalds are adjusting to life with six children. Jessa just uploaded a 25-minute video to YouTube. In it, she gives updates on her family, highlights some of her favorite homeschool resources, shares the books she is currently reading, and chats about various other topics.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
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I feel sorry for her. She has never had one minute to experience who she is herself, by herself. She went instantly from being one of a bunch of kids to a wife to a mother. Saddest part is that she seems to realize what freedom she missed and was never given a chance to have. Whether she realizes it or not, she seems short-tempered or frustrated in all of her videos. She is going through the motions she was expected to go through, but she is not showing true happiness. Being surrounded by more and more kids isn't taking the place of what she's longing for. She is compensating. More videos are only more evidence of this. Jessa - put down the camera, take away the stress of trying to impress the public, make your husband help more, or better yet, take a vacation by yourself.
ReplyDeleteNone of those girls ever got much of a chance to be themselves either. Jana came closest but she was only in holding mode until she agreed to marry, which was expected of her.
DeleteI think she is intelligent, poised, beautiful and obviously very happily married and fulfilled. It may not be for you but whatever she’s doing looks GOOD on her. Those children are fortunate to have such loving, devoted parents. They are clearly extremely serious about giving them an interesting, experience-filled, stable childhood within their value system.
DeleteI think she's living the life she wants to live. Some of us WANT to be wives and mothers.
Delete@6:04 Obviously, YouTube "influencers" do their best to make a good impression with their content in order to attract subscribers. Whether it's a Duggar or some other vlogger, especially the family variety, take it all with a huge grain of salt. When cameras aren't turned on, you have no way of knowing what is going on, or how "happy and fulfilled" they are.
Delete@2:33 It's one thing to do what you WANT to do with your life. It's quite another to be indoctrinated into believing there's only one prescribed life path or role for you.
Delete11:52, it's wired into a lot of us. Regardless of what we were told growing up.
DeleteJessa communicates well. She is so smart and wise.
ReplyDeletethey werent homeschooled properly so how can u say she is smart
DeleteThere are all kinds of wisdom, but I don't think we'll be seeing Jessa on Jeopardy any time soon.
DeleteI've known people with university degrees who couldn't find their way out of a wet paper bag when it came to daily common sense things. I've also known people who didn't finish their public high school education and there doesn't seem to be anything they can't do well. You can't judge nor are you supposed to.
DeletePerhaps you should watch your grammar before you insult somebody else’s intelligence and education?
Delete(T)hey weren(‘)t homeschooled properly(,) so how can (yo)u say she is smart(?)
Delete@12:20 People with university degrees can pay to hire someone to get them out of the wet paper bag (someone without a degree). Our world would be in big trouble without people who have gotten degrees. I don't want to go to a surgeon who finished 12th grade but no further, even if he/she was on the honor roll.
DeleteGosh 6:06 u cn read ths even tho all knds of leters r misng! U cn hv a PhD n still use online shorthand u no.
DeleteYou have a nursing baby latched onto you day and night, you have a toddler hanging onto your leg, you have a preschooler or two, and then a few school age children on top. How in the world do you provide a proper education at home? You give the older ones workbooks and turn them loose to "teach" themselves? They are not getting the social and educational interaction they would get at a public or private school classroom. They are not getting professional teaching and sharing of ideas. They are not being challenged. I don't understand how anyone who claims to love children would find such a home system ideal for learning. Is Jessa repeating what she and her siblings went through, with not a one of them having a decent education? Is that "good enough" for her? If so, I fear for the future.
ReplyDeleteIt's true, you learn a lot from being in a classroom and listening to what the other students say or ask about. There's no back-and-forth like that at home. No expression of other viewpoints and ideas on a topic. "Group brainstorming" is a very good thing. It teaches critical thinking skills.
DeleteThis is a repeat of how Jessa grew up. I agree that she seems a bit overwhelmed with so many things going on at the same time. If she'd stop having kids things would work better for the school age ones.
DeleteThat is absolutely not your business, 4:17! Have you seen some of the different public school testing results!? There's horrible test scores & below-par results in public schools in LOTS of big cities. You can keep your mouth shut and out of her business.
Delete12:43 At least public schools have oversight. Someone is watching those scores and students and holding teachers accountable. No such thing in Jessa's homeschool. Everything can slip through the cracks without any safety net.
DeleteThere's a good reason why public school classrooms don't invite babies and toddlers to hang around during instruction time. Makes no sense why homeschool classrooms do.
Delete12:43 Public schools cannot turn anyone away and must educate everyone who comes through their doors. Class sizes vary up to over 30 students with a variety of needs and abilities. Considering homeschooling parents are only responsible for their own kids, they should be expected to produce consistently good results.
DeleteI enjoyed seeing your kids.Great job Jessa!
ReplyDeleteOf all the older Duggar sisters, Jessa seemed the least likely to want a lot of kids all at once.
ReplyDeleteI hope she gets pregnant again soon. She has cute kids.
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