Parenting is TOUGH

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high up. So we're currently on some kind

of mountain,

and there's a hotel up here as well. I

didn't know there's a hotel up here, and

there's snow. Whoa!

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I've just kind of realized something.

Parenting is pretty tricky. So yesterday I

spent the afternoon with my girlfriend.

And her daughter, and we went to a

mountain, and we went to yakiniku

afterwards. And everything was fine at the

mountain, we had a lot of fun. And then

when we left the mountain and got back

into the car, her daughter fell asleep in

the car. And when we got to the yakiniku

place, it was really difficult trying to

wake her up. It took us about nearly 10

minutes to get her to get out of the car

and wake up. And she was so upset, she was

so angry and grumpy to be woken up. And we

went into the yakiniku place and we sat

down and she cried for almost 5 to 10

minutes. She wasn't like actually crying,

she just had like this really upset face

and tears were rolling down her face. And

after about 10 minutes of this, she just

completely changed her mood. She, she

became happy and energetic and lively

again. It was like a complete reversal in

the space of 10 minutes. I think that my

girlfriend handled the situation pretty

well. She didn't raise her voice, she just

gave a stern warning at first, and then

she started counting down from 5, and when

she got to 0, her daughter just woke up.

She was still pretty grumpy, but I think

she got the message that her mum was

running out of patience. And I feel really

awkward during those situations because I

don't have any authority over her because

I'm not actually her dad. And I don't

really feel comfortable bossing her

daughter around or telling her daughter

what to do because I'm not really her

father. And even if I was her father, I

don't actually know how I would handle the

situation because I'm not really a bossy,

strict, um, kind of authority figure.

I'm kind of like playful, and I guess I'd

kind of get pushed around by my kids if I

actually had my own kids because I

wouldn't be strict at all. I'd just be—

I'd be too playful and I'd be too lenient

and I wouldn't know how to discipline them

properly. I had a lot of fun yesterday

playing around with her daughter. I kind

of felt like I was becoming a kid myself.

We were running around and doing silly

things and messing around with that fluffy

toy behind me. I don't really see her mum

playing around with her daughter like I

do. She seems very serious and grown up

and she doesn't really do silly things. I

guess the problem with being too playful

is when you need to be strict and you need

to tell the kid what to do, they're not

really going to listen to you because they

don't really see you as this strict

person. They see you as this playful kind

of a pushover kind of person. It's like at

school when you have teachers. Some

teachers are really nice and friendly,

but they're not strict at all and they

can't discipline the class, and all the

children just go crazy and don't listen to

anything that the teacher's saying. And

then you get those really strict teachers

that are kind of scary, and the kids don't

even dare to misbehave or to talk or to

mess around. I suppose you kind of need to

find a balance between being playful and

being strict. You don't want to be too

much of either one. I guess it's important

to make sure the kid knows who's boss,

who's the parent, who's in charge.

Otherwise, they're just gonna walk all

over you. They're not gonna listen to

anything you say. And I think I'd find it

really difficult being strict and trying

to discipline a child because I'm just not

a strict person at all. I think I'd end up

resorting to begging them. I'd say

something like, if you do this for me,

I'll buy you a bag of sweets. But then

I'll end up getting blackmailed by my kid.

My kid will end up saying something like,

if you don't buy me a bag of sweets, I'm

not gonna listen to you. Also, I feel a

bit scared of irritating her daughter,

making her angry with me, because if her

daughter gets angry or does something rude

to me, then my girlfriend's going to be

angry at her daughter, and then it's just

going to become really awkward. A similar

thing actually happened a few days ago

when we went to the cherry blossom

viewing. She was watching cartoons on her

tablet in the car, and when we got to our

destination, she refused to get out of the

car because she was still watching

cartoons. And it took us almost 5 to 7

minutes to actually get her to turn off

her tablet and get out of the car, and she

was so upset and angry about having to

turn off her cartoons. And for about 10

minutes, she was just really grumpy and in

this really bad mood. And then after 10

minutes, it was just like a complete

reversal again. Her mood just completely

changed, and she was happy and lively and

in a good mood again. I can kind of

understand now why my girlfriend is kind

of snappy and a bit like— she seems kind

of fed up and angry with her daughter a

lot of the times. It's because One minute

her daughter can be really fun and

pleasant and in a good mood, and then she

can become really stubborn. And if you try

and tell her what to do, she just starts

throwing this tantrum. She gets upset and

angry and she starts crying. I really

enjoy seeing her daughter and playing with

her and spending time together, the 3 of

us, when everyone's in a good mood. But

then things just change so suddenly, and

when my girlfriend gets angry with her

daughter and they're both in a bad mood,

it gets really awkward, and I don't really

know what I'm supposed to do in that kind

of situation. I'm just like this outsider.

I'm not really part of the family, like

officially. I'm not really her father, so

there's not really anything I can do, and

I can't really joke around or carry on as

normal because I don't want to make this

situation worse. I don't want to make my

girlfriend more angry or more upset or

irritate her daughter more. So yeah, it

can be a tricky situation. It's a lot of

fun when everyone's in a good mood and

everything's going well, but then it can

be really, really awkward sometimes.

Wow, it's not actually windy today. It's

just been so windy for the past week.

Every single day it's been like

hurricane-speed winds. Apparently there

was some kind of storm or typhoon. I think

most of it's passed now. And a lot of

planes were actually getting cancelled

because it was just so windy. My

girlfriend was a bit hopeful that my plane

would get cancelled and I'd be stranded

here. This area is really nice for

vlogging because I can see all around me

and people can't just sneak up on me. I

can see all the way behind me and all the

way in front of me. And, um, yeah, it's

very relaxing. Oh, now this person had to

just come and ruin it, didn't she? I hate

it when you're making a video and then

people just randomly pop out of nowhere.

This is a Japanese petrol station. Look,

the staff here put the petrol in your car

for you. It's so different to the UK.

Look how small this truck is.

Bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich. Very

Japanese-y. Fried chicken

sandwich and crisps,

and I got this salad and

the beer.

You know that yakiniku restaurant we were

in yesterday? It was so noisy because

every time a customer came in, all the

staff would start yelling "いらっしゃいませ." And

there were customers coming in all the

time. And on top of that, every time a

waiter took food to a table, he would

shout out something like, I'm taking order

number blah blah blah to table blah blah

blah, and it was just so noisy. I would

absolutely hate having to work there

because I can't stand loud places and

having to talk to people in a loud voice

all the time. In Japan, they think that if

you're really noisy and loud, it makes it

a better atmosphere for the customer. And

I completely disagree. I wish they would

just stop making so much noise. By the

way, I've been pacing up and down this

road for the last half an hour in order to

make the last 10 seconds of this video.

I've just been waiting for there to be no

more bloody cars and

no people, and it's taken like half an

hour to make that last piece of video,

and I'm kind of fed up now, and I'm gonna

go back to the hotel, eat my crisps,

drink my beer, play some Vainglory. So

I'll see you there. Back to

my prison. Sometimes it feels kind

of suffocating, kind of feels like I'm

trapped here. I can walk around

for a bit outside for a few hours, but

then it gets kind of boring, and then I

don't really know what else to do. I miss

my house back in England. At first

it can be pretty exciting staying at a

hotel, but after a few days it starts to

get a bit boring. I wouldn't want to live

in a hotel. It just— it feels so lifeless,

so soulless, so impersonal.

At least I can talk to you, but you

don't say anything. You just repeat what I

say all the time. You're not even

listening, are you? Useless.

I guess we can try this beer. You know,

when I buy beer in Japan, I never get

asked for ID, but when I try and buy beer

back in the UK, they always ask me for

proof of ID because according to English

people, I look like I'm 15 years old,

which is kind of amusing.

Tastes like— tastes like beer.

I'm not really a beer expert, but all of

the brands of beer taste pretty much the

same. They taste bitter.

Some taste more bitter than others, and

some taste less bitter. This tastes fairly

bitter. It's not bad.

It's pretty good, I guess. But then, I

think all beers taste the same anyway.

It's kind of boring drinking beer alone,

isn't it? There's something kind of

depressing and sad about it. Beer's a

social drink. It should be drunk with

people in a social setting.

Kind of feels like something's gone wrong

in your life if you're drinking beer

alone. Maybe that's just my imagination.

Sorry about the slightly depressing

ending. Oh, I wanted to show you

Vainglory. Hold on. So, um, this is

Vainglory. It's basically like a League of

Legends ripoff but for the iPad. I used to

play this back in 2014 all the time when I

was in Korea, and I used to get so angry

every time we lost. I used to get so

angry, um, it was really stressing me out.

So I, I decided to delete the game, but

it's been 3 years later and I bought

myself a new iPad and I decided to

reinstall the game. And there's so many

new characters that have been added to it.

When I first started playing it when it

first came out, there were only about 8

characters. Now there's like 20 or over 20

or something. There's so many new

characters, it's kind of overwhelming. It

usually takes about a minute or 2 to find

a match. It's 3 versus 3, and here

are all the characters. I haven't unlocked

any of them, so I can only play the

characters that are available for this

week. They're on like a rotation. There's

so many characters now. There used to be

only 8. There's some pretty cool ones. I

quite like this guy. I can't press him,

but he basically has a gigantic shield and

a lance, and he does these really

long-range melee attacks.

I'm trying to learn how to play this guy,

but he's really difficult. He's really

slow, and he doesn't do a lot of damage,

but he's more like a tank. And then

I don't like this guy. I don't like this,

this woman. I need to choose my character

quickly. I'm gonna choose this guy.

I really like the artwork for the

characters. I think it looks really cool,

the art style. Where's my—

my username is my girlfriend hates me. I

created this account when I was going

through that phase with my girlfriend when

She wasn't responding to me and I was, I

was like in this weird mood. So it looks

like this, you just touch the screen and

he moves. And there's a shop and you

can buy items like League of Legends

weapon damage, crystal damage, defense,

utility. You can get like boots that make

you go faster and there's potions and

power-ups and mines, flares, all kinds of

interesting things. And then just

go— this is what the map looks like up

here. The top bit is the lane where the

minions spawn, and then this bottom bit is

the jungle where there's stronger minions,

and you can like grind in the jungle or

you can stay in the lane. And these are

the turrets. If you're familiar with

League of Legends or MOBAs, then It's

pretty easy to understand. And then you

have 3 abilities at the bottom,

and you can level them up as your

character levels up. It's a lot of fun.

I'm actually really addicted to it. I

can't stop playing it. It's actually a

bit, um, dangerous because I end up

playing this for hours and hours every day

instead of doing more important things

like, um, drinking beer. Yeah,

I don't know if any of you guys play this

game. If you do, you can add me, I guess.

My username is mygirlfriendhatesme, if you

can see there. And I'm being killed.

Yeah, I really like this game. It's pretty

much the only game I play right now.