I can't believe that lady said that to him. This is horrible!! You have every right to be here! God created you in a unique way!! What an amazing couple!! May God bless you!!
It's worse coming from a parent. It took me till I was in my 50's to know I was being emotionally abused by my mom. I tried and tried to make it a healthy relationship. My family turned on me and accused me of being the abuser. During all this my mom actually said to me: When you were born we prayed and prayed that you would live, but if you had just died, none of this would be happening right now. I was born with Spina Bifida. Needless to say, I have gone no contact with my mom to keep myself safe, and I still have family members that don't speak to me. All very sad, especially when your family is who you should depend on to have your back.
Sadly, people can be cruel, I know first hand just how cruel they can be. I suffer from a physical disorder called Nurofibromatosas . I had someone once say to me ,"If I looked like you , I wouldn't go out in public." I have people stare at me and make comments. 😢
Yes, I find Amy to be a positive roll model for all women , young , old , big , little, anyone that could use a uplifting boost. Amy is not only a positive person with a beautiful soul, but shes a leader , a strong woman than fights for her rights. Shes a real winner. I just adore her spirit.....
I'm an LP. I would much rather someone come ask me questions about my condition, than stare, laugh, point, take pictures. Education helps people understand, at any age.
wouldn't it be better if parents were proactive and educated their kids (through media/books/real life experiences) so random people wouldn't have to be walking teachable moments and could go about their day uninterrupted? so we should be pushing for more authentic representation in the media.
I could so relate to Kevin and Danielle. I was born with Spina Bifida and remember while growing up saying to my mom over and over......I will NEVER marry someone with a disability! Guess who came into my life.......a man who is paraplegic. I KNEW the night I met him I was going to marry him, but I fought and fought. Just months into our marriage it just clicked! I had someone who could relate to me and "get" the troubles that come along with having a disability. 5 days ago we just celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary!!
As a 64 year old and being married for 40 years to the same woman and a follower Jesus, it encourages me to see younger people like yourselves being bold in righteousness and good content. Thank you for giving me hope for your generation.❤
This has been your most inspirational episode so far!!! ❤ I found the discussion of your faith (all of you) so encouraging!! Thank you so much for creating such wonderful content. 💖
I broke up w my boyfriend back in 2009 , after we happen to see Zach skateboarding w his friends and my boyfriend yelled out something so horrible I made him get outta my truck and I left him in the parking lot . I've always felt so bad that people are so rude to difference.
I'm 53 years old born and raised and still live in Northeast Tennessee. My family and I grew up on a small working farm in a very rural town. One of our neighbors was a family that consisted of an average height grandmother and her daughter and 2 grandchildren with dwarfism. We were friends with them, we went to school with the grandchildren. We knew they were different, but we didn't care. We felt comfortable asking them questions. I can't imagine ever telling anyone they shouldn't have been born. We are all perfect creations in the eyes of God. We had a unique childhood as we also had a neighbor who was hearing impaired who taught us sign language and a Hispanic neighbor who taught us spanish and made fantastic tamales. I think my mother did a fantastic job exposing us to people who were different from us. She always told us to treat people as you want to be treated. I consider that a true blessing. Continued blessings to your family❤
Anyone else think Zach and Kevin sound so similar? Thank goodness they articulate differently or else I’d be so confused! 😅 Congrats on the first guests! Great episode!
Yes absolutely. They also look like they could be related, both have bright giant smiles, are giggly & you can tell they have deep, kind, wise and friendly souls.
With love 💕, I now call your show “ The Sweet life of Zach and Tori “😊❤ Thank you for introducing us to Kevin and Danielle, you are beautiful people and I love that you are spreading your light, we are all God’s children. I will definitely be checking out you podcast ❤ Have a beautiful blessed day Your friend in Michigan, Susie P.S. Kevin has the most awesome hair 😊❤
You guys are a gift STRAIGHT from God! The ONLY podcast that I use my time watching, because as a lawyer, wife and mother of 3, I simply don't have much idle time, but I come on RU-vid and check for one of your new videos every week. You have no idea how much love and light you excude... I'm glad you are exactly who God made you, or else I wouldn't have the privilege to have you guys in my life. Your family is simply a beautiful pleasure! Xo
First of all, Kevin I'm so sorry that someone said that to you! So thankful that you know Christ and know your purpose here! You and your wife are so sweet ❤️
That happened to me when my daughter was like 4 or 5. I am a average height mom. One time I was at the Mall w/ my daughter. We were exiting a JCPenney store in the mall and encountered a severely handicapped young child in a stroller w/ his parent. My daughter, very loudly, says "mom, why does that boy look like that?". I quickly said "well honey, God makes everybody different, with different abilities". (I wanted to cry!) The parent smiled and spoke to my daughter explaining her sons condition. And thanked me for speaking up and explaining..
I am in a wheelchair with Cerebral Palsy yall have help me be my self and overcome my challenges in my life and yes i have watched every episode little people big world and will be watching every episode of the podcast please know that I am y’all number one fan ❤and I’m going to college to be a police officer now?
We ALL deserve to be here... God created each and everyone of us unique. It takes a truly miserable human to be hateful to someone who has done nothing to you. Thank you for sharing and being vulnerable. I love the content. God bless❤
It’s very encouraging to hear two other young couples boldly talking about their faith in the one true God ❤. Fellow 30 something here- love all of you!
As someone who lives with a physical disability I know firsthand how cruel and mean people can be. I had someone once tell me " If I looked like you I wouldn't go out in public "😢 But one day I had a Mom explaine to her young daughter who ask me about my disability "Thats the way God made her" . The little girl thought that was cool. Kids can be way more kind and accepting than most adults. ❤
What would possess someone to walk up to a person they don't know and say something like "why are you here?". SMH. Do unto others used to be the rule...now it's an exception. Loved this episode Zach and Tori! Keep shining your lights❤️
This was an amazing hour! I don’t know how to articulate it best and succinctly. I am 82 years old but 20 at heart! Honestly, I have never met nor seen a person live with dwarfism. I already have learned from you, Zach & Tory, so much since I first discovered you some time ago. And today you and your amazing guests raised the bar even higher to reinforce a basic human concept: this is a life given to us and everyone else, “. . . we better live the heck out of it!” as I heard you saying. It’s so simple, so true, . . . as a guiding teaching and learning principle of all aspects of life and any stage of life. If we all understood that, then there could not be war! I wish I would have been that wise as a young mother but I sure am still actively engaged with my teen & young adult 6 grandchildren (17-22) to focus on and be openly mindful in sharing what I learned and am still learning about life as I have a marvelous relationship with each and noted that my life philosophy is beginning to be noted. Thank you from the bottom of my (young 😂) heart!!
I love your podcasts! It has been awesome getting to know Zach because in the show, he never had to opportunity to be heard like he has here. He is such a smart young man with a great outlook on life. You both are such an asset to each other. For sure, Zach, let your light shine!
Thank you for doing this Episode ❤️ Beautiful‼️ I love what Zach said about having Children, it’s your choice nobody else’s no matter what the obstacles.
Zach & Tori: I really enjoy your positive videos. I never thought I'd see a familiar face! I remember Kevin as a second grader in my class - A BLAST FROM THE PAST! He was an amazing student, from an amazing family, and is now an amazing man! It's great to see him and Danielle, so positive, wise, successful, and faith-filled. I will tune in to their podcast. Best wishes to them on their journey. ❤🙏❤🙏
As a 66 year old Christian woman I am so enjoying your pod cast. Now I have another one I will follow. This is a really good one. Thank you for sharing with all of us. Keep up the great work you guys. All of you. ❤ Shame on that older woman and what she said to you Kevin. Just walk away from those dark minded people.
OMG 😱 Kevin speaking about his experience brought me to tears 😭 It’s heart wrenching that people can be so cruel. Both of these couples are awesome and I love Dee’s response 🤗
i may not been little i grew up with social anxiety i was shy and i got to fight that for decades and meds now help me and i am in my 50s so morel of story everyone has something they are dealing with in life no one is perfect
Yes it did. I still watch reruns today. I’ve never been around little people but this show taught me a lot and it continues with the podcast. That’s cool 😎
Thank you for sharing such an inspiring conversation. Watching you live your best life while raising such precious children is so wonderful to watch. The world simply needs more people like Tori and Zach.
Greetings from the middle of Nebraska!! This was a fantastic video!! All of you are some of the wisest people I watch. Your level of maturity and common sense is awesome for being so young!! I am 66 years old and learn so much from watching you youngsters!! God created each of us in His image. Each of us has a purpose. You all have found your purpose and it is most definitely bringing awareness, kindness, knowledge and light to others. Be the light of Christ!! Keep the videos coming and thank you for sharing!!
Ha! I'm from W Michigan and Amy is definitely Amy and her own strong personality, it's not a Michigan thing. My daughter has lived all over the country and says W Michigan is so kind. Love Amy to pieces and proud she is from our state.
Love this! When my son (average height) was about 3 or 4 he saw a little person at the grocery store for the first time and loudly said “little person” several times. I was mortified. I just told him people come in all sizes and we are all gifts from God. I also have an Aunt with Down syndrome who loved my son so very much. She made all of us better people. My son has grown up to be a wonderful, loving, and understanding young man. You’ll are all such inspirations and I loved watching the show and now love watching the videos. Blessings to each of you. ❤🕊️
I hope you know how your light shines, the education you provide, and what amazing human beings you 4 are. Thank you for sharing Christ's love, your love for each other, and your joy in life. I was sincerely blessed by this Podcast.
Great podcast today! I love your approach to people staring, or rude comments/questions made, and how you respond. It just blessed my heart! Our daughter has Down Syndrome, and we get stares and sometimes hear whispered comments. I think God helped us handle most of these with much grace. I am so glad I never got to hear too many hurtful comments. It's wonderful that we have a very supportive family and church. A friend of mine told me that once someone had told her that I should have never had our sweet girl. She shut that comment down really fast! We are all created for a purpose, and God can use us all for His glory! Blessings on you!😊❤
This was such a great episode, thank you all for sharing. Also, I do agree with Zac on the Snow White story, it was SUCH a missed opportunity for an upgrade to the story.
This whole video is inspiring for everyone! You remind us to respect others and learn from them. We are all gifts from God and I am so grateful that we all are unique!
The more I watch you guys the more I become addicted… For a good reason… Y’all are giving such a positive message to the world… You are so brave and I am so impressed… This is what the world needs to strive to be tolerant of everybody, no judgement only love❤
I absolutely loved this episode, Kevin and Danielle seem like really good people with such a great story. I'll be checking out their podcast. Zach and Tori are natural hosts great interview. My favorite part was at 28:21. Peter Dinklage has an amazing story as well he changed the game for Dwarf actors. Great point about Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs Zach I would love to see them updated. I hope you have more guests in the future.
Thank you all for sharing with all of us. Both couples are wonderful and love the great advice you give to other people. Zach & Tori, love how loving ya both are to each other and trying to help others as well. Thank you again. May our Lord keep blessing you in everything you do in your lives. 💖💖💖
Wow! Great guests. So insightful and mature. I especially like how complimentary they are to each other when speaking and listening thoughtfully. So good - thank you!
Hello Zack and Tori! I love you podcast and great guest Kevin and Danielle. Being kind is absolutely free, thank you for all of your insight and sharing your lives with us🙏🏽❤️
Thankyou for sharing. I don't understand this day and age how people put down someone who isn't like them. People still teach their children prejudice. To me those people are childish. I enjoy the different people, lives, and religions. Take the time and be more open.
HEY GUYS…yelling out from a corn field in South Carolina. I have enjoyed your story and how you present it with kindness and respect. At my age we all think we know it all, but I have learned that in every new experience growth transcends.Your Grace is infectious.Thank you for sharing your perspectives with us. God bless you.
Loved this. Kevin and Dani are so cool and seem so kind. Would love to see them on another episode. Also so happy for you all to be able to grow your friendships...you all seem like you mesh well together. 🥂
Zach was trying so hard to get his point across, but I’m glad he finally got it out. I was starting to speak too soon before he finally straightened it out. Knowing his opinion from the last time, I understood where he was going, but for a new listener, it would have been difficult to know exactly what he was trying to say. Well done. Thank you. I just want to add a perspective on the whole dwarves living out in the middle of nowhere idea: Man camps are a thing, even in today’s culture. When miners go and work an area, often it’s in unsettled territory, so wives, girlfriends, and children stay home or in town, while the men live in man camps and work. Our town was once filled with man camps when there was a coal production explosion back in the 70’s & 80’s. A town an hour away was formed from it once being nothing more than a man camp in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s. So the seven dwarfs, living on their own out in the middle of the woods, not far from the mine they worked in, is not a strange thing at all. At least if you know the culture. Similar man camps exist for oil field workers as well. Even today. So this is my take on why the dwarves lived so far away from society as a whole. They weren’t being shunned or such, they were just working a job. Living near the mine makes more sense then walking hours to the job site. So hopefully this gives you a better understanding of why Snow White stumbled upon the house full of male dwarfs with no women to tidy up the place in the middle of nowhere. It’s not necessarily keeping dwarves out of regular society, it’s just men working a job. I hope this helps it make more sense. And telling a back story of the dwarves as to how they all came to be who the each are and how they came together, sounds like a wonderful idea. I’d watch it.
Growing up as a little person, I always knew I was a bit different from everyone else, but it didn't really hit me until I couldn't keep up with all the physical stuff everyone else was doing. Marrying another little person never crossed my mind, 'cause I didn't really know many folks like me until a family friend invited me to this convention. That's where I met Zack and the Roloff crew, and let me tell you, it was epic! Being around people who understand your struggles is a whole different vibe, especially when you're in your early teens and just craving some healthy competition.
I don't know a single person with dwarfism but I almost feel like an honorary member of the community bc of how much I know about it now thanks to LPBW and now your podcast 😂 I have a 5 and 7 year old, and they love to watch old episodes of the Little Couple with me - they love watching Will and Zoey! While we watched the show, I had a convo with my kids inspired by Zac about how to treat another child or adult with dwarfism, not to comment on their stature but treat them like you would anyone else bc theyre just regular people like us 💗
Everyone’s life and existence is precious. At the end of the day, the way they look “different” to us, we look different to them, so let’s just learn from each other.
I am sitting at work watching this episode and I am about to burst into tears that someone could ever have the audacity to come up to anyone let alone a child and say something like that to them. I will never understand anyones headspace for the words that can come out of their mouth.
This podcast was super great to listen to. I really enjoyed it, even the sad parts.. Kevin I'm so sorry.That lady had no right to say that to you. You're perfect just the way you are in every possible way. Keep shining your light , bright and strong because you deserve to be here on this earth to help make a difference in whatever you chose to be or who you are exactly suppose to be. Dwarfism/height ect shouldn't make you have to feel like your less than anyone else. Every single day you serve a purpose.Thank you Danielle,Kevin, Zach and Tori for this podcast.
Your parents show "Little people Big World" I think help everybody who watched a chance to stare without feeling bad. And truely showed us how you manage life and that your are just the same as everyone else. Not that we didn't know that already but just hadn't seen it, your parents confidence is a gift to us.
Resonated with this a lot as a 6'2 female. Comments and questions from strangers, photos being taken when out (especially if I am with someone else tall), and that self-questioning when young will I date someone shorter than me. Found this very interesting. Also, my dad had to lift my bathroom vanity like you had to lower your kiddos vanity. Neat to relate on opposite ends of the height spectrum.
Thank you so much for your faith based videos! They truly resonate with me! Your bravery and courage to show your faith is commendable! You guys are the only podcast RU-vid show I watch. 💕💖💗 May God bless you all and your family!
Loved this episode. Kevin & Danielle are the sweetest couple. I want to wish them many happy years together. I think Zach’s Snow & The 7 Dwarfs suggestion would be great to watch. We need more tv & movies showing all types of people.
I just watched Amy making peanut butter, chocolate chip, reeses pieces, peanut cookies! Zach... your mom & dad did such a great job raising you... I've watched every show, every podcast & love you all!❤😊
I love your podcast. I’m short at 5’ and have been picked on many times for my height. You all add a level of awareness and acceptance of people who are different. I so appreciate your messages. (I was selected to be an Ompa Lompha in a play due to my height. )
I’ve been picked on for being short as well! (5’1 also!). I also had a Lazy eye in 7th-8th grade. I was bullied horrendously!! (I’m 57 now!) it was awful! I had moved from Colorado, to Park City, Utah where everyone was privileged and spoiled. My Dad had taken a job to help manage a struggling ski resort, and get some new Condos up and running. So I was the new kid in town. I was the TARGET! There was a locker search at my middle school the 3rd week I was there, looking for drugs. Because the popular kids parents would give them pot! 7th GRADE! I ended up having corrective lazy eye surgery halfway through 8th grade! Well, my lazy eye is back and really bad! I also have deteriorating teeth! The teeth all need to be pulled and I’ve decided on dentures, because I don’t have any $$ for a full set of teeth! (Implants) being bullied at any age is awful!
So glad I randomly watched this one! I believe Danielle was the one who gave my daughter swimming tips at the DAAA swim meet, and now my girl wants to be a Paralympian!!! Love your podcast, and I swear I will work up the courage to say hi at conference one year :D
What a lovely couple. They have very good values. I wish them all the luck in this crazy world we live in. Don't let rude people bring you down. Enjoy your life that God gave you.
I completely agree with Zach about Snow White and the 7 Drawfs, yes show them in regular life roles and give their back story, Great idea!!! Disney are you hearing this?
Listening to these young adults speak is awesome. So much insight and profound thoughts ideas and perspective on life is very moving. Many blessing to them.
Great conversation and an awesome testimony of awareness of differences & also being image bearers of Christ. Loved it. Go get ‘em bro and sis in Christ!
