Gen Alpha’s GRWM TikToks Are CONCERNING..
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- gen alpha is growing up with social media- but at what cost? parents aren’t seeming to be monitoring their children enough, with people saying these behaviours are “normal” but are they really for 9-10 year olds?
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Ugh.... as a mom of a 9 year old girl, this upsets me. I constantly have to have discussions with her about what is and isn't healthy for her skin. She uses a kid safe face wash at night and in the morning and she has a face moisturizer that contains suncreen. When she's allowed to mess around with makeup its only eye shadow, lip gloss, and mascara. I've told her she doesn't need a full face of makeup, her skin is beautiful and healthy and she doesn't need to cover it up. I understand the desire to want to wear it occasionally, she's a girl whos grown up with an alt mom that uses makeup as self expression and she wants to be like me. But her health is more important to me than her being upset over not wearing foundation and contour....
Great work keep it up ❤
She’ll thank you in the future when her skins the clearest out of all her peers LOL
You’re a great mom
Does she say why she wants to use skincare and makeup? Because she wants to be like you and other influencers that promote it? Or does she feel she’s not pretty enough and wants to ‘fix’ herself? I’m genuinely interested in why little kids want to use skincare.
She tells me about how all her friends at school are using it. My kids dont have social media in any form and I monitor what they watch even on netflix and stuff like that.
I was groomed at 14 because my internet access wasn’t monitored. It emotionally damaged me for a long time. I got a lot of emotional trauma that most people don’t get till much later in life. I had to deal with a grown ass man telling me he loved me and then disappearing. If my parents had been paying attention it wouldn’t have happened.
Or if they had discussed with you that grown men who talk to children like that are creepy rapists.
Parents set their kids up for failure by selfishly refusing to have uncomfortable conversations
@@OscarLangleySoryu I did have to put my father in prison later in life for being a PDF file. So I don’t think there is any world in which he would warn me about creepy men. I wasn’t his victim but I sure was his jailer.
@@JanieGotAPun wow did you really just blame me for being groomed? Is that actually a thing you just did. That’s fucking WILD of you
@@JanieGotAPun maybe you werent "simple minded" at 14 but you sure as hell are now
@AnotherMaryJane What a cruel thing to say about child-en who have been seggually ab--ed by older individuals online. You're invalidating hundreds if not thousands of peoples experiences, including mine. Youre also ign-rant if you dont know that this is something EXTREMELY prevalent now a days, especially now with how uninvolved parents are when it comes to internet safety. Its one hundred percent the fault of the parents. Dont blame child-en for their ab--e. Thats disgusting behavior online or not
My sister is a gen alpha and she genuinely thinks that being mean is cool and is an iPad kid and when I tell her she’s still a bit too young for makeup she will just insult me 😐😐
you should try to talk to her. im not gonna pretend to know how to deal with that since i dont have siblings, but trying to talk with your younger sister and explain to her some things may help :)
Every generation thinks it’s cool to be mean when they’re kids. Do you not remember being a kid
Take some lessons from Caribbean moms, I'm serious. Discipline the child, they need some sense in this world. Just kids become just adults real quick, her behavior isn't cute and she's going to be a monster to people.
Nip it in the bud before it becomes a major problem.
I discipline my sisters, you can too
literally my sister 😭 i’m trying so hard to understand her but when she’s just being mean it’s difficult
@@JanieGotAPun or…? Have a conversation with the child about why they shouldn’t act like that? That would take effort tho.
If OP isn’t old enough for that to be appropriate they should ask their parent to do it. Jesus
My niece is six and this is her. Obsessed with skin care, Drunk Elephant, Stanley cups, and all the influencers. She’s basically grown up on TikTok and has been glued to her iPad since age 1. She just recently has been telling everyone she doesn’t want anything “kiddie” and got rid of all her toys or Disney branded things (she used to adore Frozen) and is only interested in her dance lessons and doing her makeup. It’s disturbing. Especially because when she’s all done up for dance she legit looks 16! She’s SIX!
same with my niece! she’s 12 and used to love frozen and the like, nowadays she’s obsessed with makeup, tiktok, Snapchat and the like
Wow... Age 1? My mother didn't let me until I was 7 and I was only watching DIY videos and playing roblox. 😭
@@Artziesam GURL SAMEEE
I knew how to run a device on my own at 2-
@@Artziesam That's still so young!! I got a laptop at 10 and just wqtxhed bus feed yt vids💀 and then a phone an social media at 13, but looking back now at 17 that still feels pretty young, atheist for tiktok
I hate when people blame this on gentle parenting when this is just bad parenting!!!
real
It’s actually something called Permissive parenting, this is when you allow your kids to do whatever they want without consequence.
This is what you get!
Shocking right? 😐
From what I have seen thus far, gentle parenting is just a rebrand of bad parenting for a lot of people.
@@ghostchick5275 there is a really good gentle parenting RUclipsr who makes videos and shorts on the topic and it is very informative there handle is pleasant peasant media
I tried telling my mother that there is a difference between gentle-parenting and passive parenting, she didn't seem to get it. I think a lot of people forget that gentle-parenting is the presence of repercussion without corporal punishment.
My stepdaughter breaks my heart. Her mum got her a phone last year and it has sucked the childhood out of her. Her father and I have to keep reminding her to put it away in her pocket whenever we go outside, otherwise she's just glued to it constantly. She's 11, and got diagnosed with ADHD BEFORE she was given the phone. I don't understand her mum's parenting 'style', I have ADHD/autism myself and giving an ADHD kid constant access to tiktok just seems like setting her up for failure.
As a teen that was given WAY too much internet at a VERY young age, it'd probably be best to try and limit it or just wait until she's older. as someone who got unlimited access to the internet, I REALLY wish I could go back. There are a ton of creeps of prey on little girls. she's never going to get her teenage years back. Nonetheless she's spending most of it on her phone. Even if she's not your biological daughter, I'm sure there's still something you can do?
Probably because she is now an ex, she doesn’t need to take care of the child 24/7 anymore so she doesn’t care.
@@user-bi8ko7kc6hthat’s an odd take… she’s still the kid’s mother.
Most kids have smartphones these days, it’s probably part that and part the fact she wants a direct connection when the kid is at dad’s!
I did get my first smartphone at 9 years old. I definitely think it was a bit young for a real smartphone, but I was a latchkey kid from 3rd grade, so I understand my parents' intentions. I definitely went through a period of mild phone addiction, and would describe myself as "chronically online" from ages 12-18. however, as a 20 year old now, I'm happy to say I've deleted most social media and do not rely on my phone anymore. it is possible to reprogram these kids, but they have to want that for themselves. it's important to keep teaching them the importance of mental health and the risks of screen addiction. they may not understand now, but they will one day.
but to any parents who have a young child who has not received a phone yet, DO NOT GIVE IN TO THEIR WHINING. FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER CREATOR YOU BELIEVE IN, DO NOT OPEN THAT DOOR UNTIL THEY ARE 13 MINIMUM. I recommend tracphones with limited capabilities if you want to keep your kid safe from the internet and let them keep in touch with their friends outside of school hours, while also giving them a way to contact you or 911 in emergency situations. they're a hell of a lot cheaper, too.
ADHD teenagers here and tbh I struggle with the same thing I do need reminders to put my phone away
literally every child space is shutting down :/ my mom tried taking her grandkids to chuck-e-cheese for fun and the establishment was basically empty. their stay was literally timed, like you cant stay for longer than the time you purchased, and they took away the indoor park, removed the cups of coins, and everythings on the digital cards. everything i loved about that place as a kid (shaking the cup of coins, searching under machines for dropped coins/tickets, waving to my mom from the window in the mini playground, hanging out for however i want) was stripped away and turned into a credit card transaction. i hate this era of "time is money, even for kids" it takes away from what made those places exciting
Yea even I miss Chuck E. Cheese I’m 13 but I have not gone to it in a long time and I didn’t know they ruined it and now it times you 😢
The Snapchat thing is so real. Like I’m 14 & I’m STILL not allowed Snapchat, but I think that’s good. Snapchat can be really dangerous…
im in the exact same situation omg
how would you know it’s dangerous if you haven’t used it ☠️
I used to have Snapchat in highschool, it's not even *only* about danger, it's just big time and emotion waste. "Oh i gotta send snap to keep a streak", then i started thinking too much bout stuff i send to people, compearing myself to friends going on parties i was excluded from. It's stupid bullshit, don't download it
@@lyneysloopholeyou don’t need to jump off of a cliff to know it’ll kill you
i didnt get it until i was 19 and i only talk to irl friends. it is usefull for video chats with android phones (I called my friend)
At her age I had a crush on emo lion from the Lion King sequel
Real
Honestly valid
I had a crush on vegeta from dbz and Gary from pokémon at that age lmao
i had a crush on cedric from Sofia the first when i was 10
when i was 10 i had a crush on dio from jojos bizarre adventure and i still do 😟 the anime was way too mature for me i agree but thats still better than whatever these kids are doing, and i could handle mature themes
Not only has the parents of these kids completely failed but this content is NOT mainly watched by their pairs but predators are having a field day. How parents don't understand how grim the internet is, blows my mind. Children should NOT be on social media platforms AT ALL, that includes family channels. I'm sad for these kids, for a variety of reasons.
when I was a tween, it was wild. there were relationships and situationships everywhere, and that resulted in a ton of cheating, fighting and breakups. it was all children stuff, nothing too serious. but the one in the video feels weird, a little girl doing a GRWM on tiktok talking about her personal life to thousands of people just doesn't click to me.
Right.
She shouldn’t be broadcast to all these people.
The makeup and crushes is the same as it ever was. Anybody who says it isn’t has an old person mindset and forgot what being a kid is like.
@@OscarLangleySoryu I mean, while applying retinol to your face when you're a 10 year old is a bit bad and should be stopped, it's common for tweens to get into relationships that last for up to three months, at least it was where I lived.
and it's also common for little girls to like makeup, what makes children with makeup problematic is the purpose of it, if it's for fun then it's okay, if it's to appear more attractive then it's worrying.
and to be honest, with the internet it's easier to do what we already did, but what do I know, I'm too stupid.
@@s3xyd1rtyh03 nah… believing you are ugly or unacceptable without makeup is the problem. And that is a parenting issue that needs to be addressed whether the kid is allowed to wear makeup at an earlier or later age…
She shouldn’t have an account! At Most she should post on her dad/mom/older sister’s private story and use it a few times every few weeks!(6-7 or 8 at max)
@@amethyst1062 she's not even old enough to have one
"love life" my jaw HIT THE FLOOR.
Kids can have love life tho, crushes and stuff at that age is normal
@@nothingness_. no child should be calling it a love life. that is what it’s called usually on TikTok. Most kids will say boyfriend and girlfriend or crushes - not love life. I’m not saying no kid calls it that but it is clearly picked up from TikTok.
the crazy thing is that the minimum LEGAL age to be on any social media is 13+
Instagram, Snapchat, even Facebook asks if you are 13 or older to use the app so it’s genuinely all on the parents to even let them make an account under 13.
It bothers me that social media is 13+. The minimum legal age to be on any social media should be 16+ in my opinion.
I had Snapchat when I was 12
@@thereal_sunset me too and other sites younger, doesn’t mean it’s okay at all and i agree it should be 15/16+
@@bunnie7265 Yeah but imo 12/13 is a good age because to me that’s old enough to know not to do dumb stuff
@@thereal_sunset even grown adults do dumb things on social media. Children should not have full access to social media at 13 when they are barely teenagers.
I remember 20 years ago when I was a teen I was grilled by other kids about dating. It was terrible. It was a mess. It felt inappropriate.
I was 15 and had no interest in dating.
Found out at 19 that I'm asexual, found out at 27 that I'm romantically attracted to people of own assigned gender at birth. So basically, ace and gay.
Now imagine these kids getting bullied for not talking about heteronormative crap.
Terrible. I hate that.
ace and bi at 14
3rd grade, talking stages didn’t exist. You liked each other, you dated, you’d talk about marriage and have a fake wedding, after a bit you’d break up.
At least that’s how it was in my school
I think it is mentally damaging for a 10 year old to be concerned with how many likes and followers they have on social media. If they don’t get what they feel is enough or more than what some other 10 year gets in social media it can really damage their thoughts about themselves. Parents need to be parents to these kids not “besties”.
This is actually REALLY sad that kids can't be KIDS!
They are kids.
If you think they’re not you’re the one with the toxic mindset.
@@OscarLangleySoryu I'm not saying they're not kids. What I am saying is that people like you, ya know, people who like to give other people labels based on their own bias. If a kid isn't allowed to like something just cause it's not a trendy item then they get bullied and treated like an animal, Which IS SAD. I called them kids. Just cuz you can't properly read what I'm saying, then its not my problem so.. you do you boo❤ Im not toxic honey, you are, all I said was that it's sad kids get bullied for liking kid things and you didn't understand me so you called me toxic for actually no reason at all💫
Keep kids from being social media stars. Should be an age requirement.
I’m pretty sure all social media is like 13+ parents just don’t monitor their kids or just don’t care
@@AlixDaAxo florida is experimenting with actual social media laws. not sure how they will enforce them but it will be interesting to see how it plays out and if it's something other states could begin to implement.
@@AlixDaAxo Yep and kids don't care and parents don't pay attention.
@@AlixDaAxo and that is still way too damn young to be a social media star
@@perpetualsick yeah
Part of this i feel could be attributed to the whole “mini me” culture where parents have a kid because they want a mini version of themselves when it should be more like oh i want another human being who thinks for themselves… it’s harmful to not let kids develop their sense of self from an early age. Literally went through it myself but not the same as gen alpha and i’m glad to be finally finding myself at freakin 24 years old. it’s hard esp when now kids are just bullied for liking anything that’s not popular
0:40 i'm 20 and i remamber in 6th grade girls started shaming each other for liking like mlp and lps and stuff cause it was for babies and gou should be watching hanna Montana and other unfunny life action shows, i think it was the begging of each next generation shaming kids for being kids as cring
To be fair, I was about that age when I had a total meltdown when I found out Davy Jones from the Monkees was old, because I had a crush on him.
Although I definitely dont remember having crushes on actual people I knew at that age. It was strictly Davy Jones and Luke Skywalker.
GIRL ME TOO 😭😭😭 DAVY MY BELOVED
I love the Monkees! This happened to me, too, but with Mike Nesmith. 😅
Same tho 😭🤚🤚
Lol mine were fucking transformers at that point haha.
At 12 I thought I had a chance with Harry Styles, mf was 22💀💀💀💀
I stand by my beliefs that “preppy” is a plague 👏👏 from one Aussie to another, go Queen 🖤🖤🖤🖤
This ain’t preppy this should be called like idk gen alpha not being parented
i remember eating chapsticks and going outside making witches brews when i was 8
Those LipSmackers chapsticks were delicious; my favorite was the root beer.
@@clairebear70my favorite was this m&ms one my dad got me
@@floweysbestbuddy Those were good, I think I got the same ones in Las Vegas.
I was out here thinking I had the cure to anemia with the potions I was making.
4:59 I love that u called tbat out 🤣‼️ and realistically it’s sad how our stores started disappearing for kids. This was like 3 years from 2016-2019 of random kid stores disappearing and we all were like well that sucks….didnt even think of how that would affect kids now. That aside I looked thru old videos by accident the other night and I’m sorry but it’s so sad that my lil cousins were acting their age and now it’s like a whole new reality. Even my teenage self as randomly embarrassing it was, the adult in me valued how innocent we all were in diff stages of life. It’s like society just ripped that away and it’s not the kids fault at all.
as the younger side of gen z (16 y/o), there are some things that kids are gonna expirience in the age of technology, but at the same time, its the parents jobs to stop it and protect them. when i was these kids ages i was watching stuff on youtube not appropriate from children, but my parents saw and restricted my youtube account. when i was these kids age, tiktok was still musically, and ofc being a kid i posted because i was excited on the app (but at this point there was no dms, and comments weren't allowed on minors accounts), but never posting grwms, or any of that, we just danced around and were still acting like kids. even with this skincare stuff, sure, let your kids learn young, its good hygine, when i was 12 i did skincare because i would break out. but, and this is a strong but, it was cleanser, moisturizerr, sunscreen, chapstick, and facemasks. my routine has stayed the same since i was younger, with only the addition of once a week exfoliating. these kids are so obssessed with staying young looking, but all they need right now for that is sunscreen.
idk, the world is changing and stuff, but these parents need to stop letting the internet raise their kids because these kids are going to end up as traumatized adults, seeking the comfort they had when they were little, not having any social skills, and not being able to do anything without having a screen next to them.
at that little girl's age i was playing with My Scene dolls and having trouble with my shoe laces that was my stressful life 😄
At that little girls age (I'm a guy, mind you) me and my friend were playing with hot wheels and pretty much gambling with them, and I also didn't know how to tie my shoes. Wore a lot of Velcro/slip ons, didn't learn to tie my shoes until I was 11, and even then, in an untraditional way, the same way I still do today.
@@spencercorby4571 well wont lie do wear Velcro slip on's tennis shoes specially when in bicycle only time i deal to tie is when i wear boots but most of them use zipper as for this new age of kids silly and sad all i wanted for the holidays was toys and later got into video games still but i still keep my dolls i doubt that little girl will have any sentimental childhood sentimental objects other then drunk elephant lol
@@spencercorby4571i didn’t learn to tie my shoes til i was 11 either, glad i’m not the only one
didn’t learn how to tie my shoes until this school year in november
I didn't learn to tie my shoes until I was 14
Not a mother here but a soon to be graduating girl. My younger brother is turning 14 and he is already acting like the boys my age. I see him playing games me and many of my peer are just scratching the surface of. He has become more aggressive and angry constantly flaming me with homophobia and sexism all to put on the macho front his peers and my mother (YES my own MOTHER!) are condoning. It hurts to see how micro-managed and emotionally hurt I was by my own mother then for her to destroy my brother as well but by condoning every wrong turn he takes. It is not his fault but and my utmost resentment goes out to all parents like my mother. You are wrong. Get a grip and see how you harmed your older children with borderline abuse and how you are now destroying your younger children with sheer and utter laziness.
Social media destroys individualism is my opinion. How will a child who, at 10 years old, already copies popular content learn to develop their own identity, learn to express their own (maybe unpopular) interests. It was already hard without social media and only the mean girls at school judging you.
Here's my honest opinion. I don't mind 9-10-year-olds wearing makeup, especially if it's for fun. Makeup is a form of art, and they should use it to express themselves if they want to! But if you are doing this because of society's expectations, then it's just sad. Just a few weeks ago, I heard of a SECOND GRADER ( 7-8 years old ) bullying another girl cause she didn't have a Stanley, didn't wear makeup, and wasn't acting like a "girl". Like whattt. Honestly, society's expectations of what a girl should be and what a boy should be is crazy. Especially the double standards, it's honestly so sickening that other girls are bullying and putting their classmates down because they don't dress or act like a "girl" or "boy".
It's wild seeing kids get phones so young. I didn't have one until I was a freshman in high school. Even then, I only really used it to obsess about One Direction😂
Hi, I am an Gen Alpha. (2013.) I agree with you. Calling us cringe, only makes us want to do stuff older kids do. You call us cringe, then say “we try to grow up too fast” when we act like you so we don’t seem cringe. I’m not saying every Gen Z or Gen does that, im just talking about what some people do. Please, take this seriously. 😚
I’m glad to see someone of your generation stand up
@@NicolasPetrosLanning my parents just raised me right ig 🤷🏽♀️
Good stuff right there, standing up for you generation 👏 👍
As someone who was bullied by their SpEd teachers for liking things that were not deemed "age appropriate" (basically just for being older than 6 and still watching cartoons and reading children's books), it hurts to see these kids no older than 10 being pressured into having social media, having relationships, and so on; all the while being deprived of any safer, more child friendly options, whether from peer pressure or from those places and things just not being available. Usually both.
I was not able to physically send a message until age 13, and it was my apple email address with my girlfriends from school, it was on an iPod and my parents could ask whenever to check my device (not in a threatening way just in a mutual trust way, aka it was HEALTHY). Yeah the snap stuck out to me too, what kid that sounds this young should be on snap let alone filming a video of themself alone for an online audience, over playing dolls alone or something. She is absolutely too young to understand who could be watching. I only understood around age 19 to be honest, even at 18 I didn't fully get it looking back and that's scary, 18 is not a magic number, you really are still just a teenager and that's not to diminish young people but rather comment on the bad people who act like 18 automatically means people automatically click on understanding certain things.
i'm glad we're blaming the parents and not the kids. us saying "gen alpha is so cringe" is just mean, but directly calling out the parents is a step in the right direction. thank you for making this video :D
To be fair, in elementary school, there were two kids I knew that had their first little boyfriends, but they mostly just held hands and had that puppy love. It didn't feel adult like this, which is very sad.
The audio in this video is making me crazy 😭😭 but I still love you, Kween 💙
My neice (9) is the same type and sadly enough my sister(her mom) tells me to mind my own business when I try to tell her anything
when I went to an h&m the other day, not only did they have a bunch of clothes in the kids' section that were very mature style-wise, but they also had an entire makeup collection for kids near the checkout section, which did gather the interest of some girls. I saw a maybe 6-7 year old buying a lip gloss set (well, her mom bought it for her 😶) and a maybe 10 year old getting beauty blenders. yikes
Mmmm i saw black fake leather leggings in the little girls section. ❓
I’m 12, and just no . I’m only allowed RUclips , the only reason I have a phone is for safety so I can call my mum and dad when walking home from school. In the uk when you become year 7, your apparently supposed to wear false lashes , full face of makeup , tt , snap insta like what !!! Just because you’re in highschool now doesn’t mean you need to act like a 16 yr old ! And yes I like Makeup but I don’t wear full face makeup everyday or lashes or on my phone every single day ! I only use a face wash ( that my mum checked and allows me to use ) and moisturiser. I might wear mascara or lip gloss sometimes but LASHES ! No just no , btw I love this channel so much and think that everything you say is just so real ❤
My mothers close friend has a son who‘s around 11-12. 5th grader. I basically helped raise that boy, and now he goes to my school (im 16, 10th grade). I always gave the woman tipps on control management with the tablet and stuff for him, and he is now the sweetest boy ever. So you can imagine my heart when he came to me during break and cried because his friend ditched him for his new girlfriend (they are 11-12 mind you) and bullied the boy I partially helped raise for not acting mature yet and not having a gf.
My heart broke, obviously i didnt intervene further to avoid any unnecessary drama, but I did comfort him.
I as a 16 year old only have a few years apart from these kids and the contrast between us is very large.
But I must add that we as kids were forced to grow up aswell. I was forced to stop acting like a child at age 7 due to my parents huge care for image and people around me.
this problem definitely did kot start with gen alpha, but got worse.
The fact they do the influencer tap on everything now tells me what content they're consuming
I am 14 (almost 15) and this genuinely feels so sad to me. Like when I was 10, I was singing Frozen songs and reading books. The most “makeup” I ever put on was fricking nail polish. Even now, I would say I am different than a lot of other ppl around me. So many of my friends stay up till 3 AM scrolling on their phone. I have snap and insta on my phone, but not even TikTok, and I don’t doomscroll for hours on snap/insta. When I started 6th grade, I was bullied for not having a phone. Like that’s genuinely crazy imo. And even in 6th grade, kids were already trying to act so mature. I knew somebody in 6th grade who apparently (a rumor tho, so im not sure) drank alcohol and vaped. 6th grade. That’s 11/12 years old. I’m in 8th now, and I mean ppl are teenagers. Ofc I’ve also had some kind of “teenager” experience like wearing makeup and having crushes. But some of the gen alpha ppl genuinely scare me. Like imagine a 100 years from now how kids are gonna be…
I had my first crush (who hardly knew I existed) when I was 10. I wrote about it in my High School Musical diary😂 and gabbed about it him to my best friends during break time. Its a pity that kids today feel the need to post everything on social media now. Maybe its due to emulating older influences but I think a lot of it stems from their lack of real world connections and hobbies. Everything kids do nowadays is surrounds the internet. Its sad
I have two younger sisters, one being a gen alpha. she isn’t one of those kids with social media because my parents don’t let her have it (which is a smart choice) even though I raised them with things I grew up with near the year 2017-2019 (animation memes, indie games, old roblox). what people are raised with affects things like behavior, appearance, personality. and since I was raised by the “weird” or “cringe” side of the internet I was always bullied by other kids who were raised with what was “cool” just because I acted and liked different things. there is no such thing as “normal”. people have their own unique preferences that some other just don’t like, and personally: if you don’t like you don’t have to interact with it.
All the child spaces have gone and now they are banning Tik tok in the USA so they are taking away yet another space kids use. I used to use club penguin even that is gone. TikTok has a lot of unhealthy things but it does feel a bit sad to see something kids love using for self expression ripped away from them. Now will they flock to RUclips I suppose? I’m worried for these kids falling down a bad path with bad people while seeking love and acceptance they are so vulnerable in this harsh world.
This makes me so happy I didn't have a phone until I was 13 (used only for school and to contact my family)😭 we shouldn't be giving our children access to social media until they're atleast 13... it's not safe, and it's not okay to put your child in an unsafe situation, even if they get upset, its better they are upset than in danger!
i LOVED those old polly pocket games 🖤
AMENN!!! those hit good i was obssessed,i found a vid which has all the games archived and i recognized most,if only i could play those again😭😭😭😭😭😭
I was literally either in my room drawing any creature or person with a unique style or going around my neighborhood with my mom or cousins on my roller skates having fun at her age and she already wears a full face of make up and “has a love life” these poor kids just grow up too fast and I’m in high school saying this.
I’m real glad my dad raised Me right
first of all, ur my new comfort youtuber and i love how well you report on these topics, the modern day relationship with technology and social media is one of my biggest interests but its harder to stay in touch with it because of how much ive withdrawn from it, you do an incredible job. talking about these things is more important than ever. to go along with that, ive even noticed these kinds of behaviors in my brother and it scares me. hes 16 now, i was hoping hed have maybe just escaped this way of thinking but his whole life and outlook on the world revolves around his phone and the content he consumes. i had him cry to me the other day, having decided that a girl hated him because of the opinions of people he saw on tiktok- the opinions of people he's never even met. 5-30 second videos of people venting about how they've been treated by one girl has now dictated his entire outlook on love. hes decided for this girl that she hates him, and now all women are only going to break his heart. its genuinely horrifying. i tried to reason with him and tell him that everyones experiences are unique to themselves, theres no way he can know that without her saying so herself- human emotions are very complex. but something in his brain genuinely cant accept that anymore. since hes seen a bunch of tiktoks, that has to be the ultimate truth. theres more to this too but that conversation sticks with me. tiktok is genuinely ruining kids brains, i even see it in people my own age, watching even over the last 3-5 years how the way they interact with the world has changed. it scares me so bad. i fuckin hate that app, there was always issues with social media and always will be but i feel this one was the ultimate downfall.
When I was 7 I was playing with Barbie’s
Same
So?
@@OscarLangleySoryu what do you mean, so?
@@SillyLittleJester_6 uhhh “so what?” is that easier for you to follow?
@@SillyLittleJester_6 “wtf is your point”?
When I was 10, all I worried about was memorizing my multiplication tables. My kids are Gen Z and Gen Alpha and its crazy how different kids are expected to act now. We used to have so many things for kids to do, and now there's really nothing to do so everyone just stays home instead of playing outside.
10 is fourth or fifth grade. I learned basic multiplication in third grade when I was eight. Why do people always assume that if you're in fourth grade you're learning addition like wth we knew that when we were six
I have been exposed to the internet since I was like 6 or 7. I was only allowed to play like online games from the kids Tv channel website (tbf those games were epic and educational, I only really played these I wasn’t too bothered by RUclips or actual apps or communication apps). I got a phone when I started secondary school (for those who aren’t from my country I would’ve been eleven) even with my phone I only had WhatsApp and would talk to my mum, sister and my only friend. My mum had a parental control app so I couldn’t download certain things like Snapchat or musically. I’ve never really experienced anything bad online, I’ve seen more dodgier stuff as I’ve gotten older and it’s been more recent. I’m still in school and I hear people talking about the p.0rn and stuff they saw as a kid. I would say I had a happy, relatively normal childhood and I was definitely not addicted to screen and the like. It just baffles me how these parents let their kids on tik tok and Snapchat when they can barely read.
As a teen in high school my class is separated in two like most of us have no social media at all and the other half have all the social media and even have dating apps which is concerning cuz they aren’t close to being legal, and the boys are talk to girls that are either way to young we are talking NINE or like 19 year olds and their parents do not care at all it’s so worrying
I apologize for this being off-topic, but.... HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL OF THE BEAUTIFUL QUEENS! 😍💓😊
I will say I agree with this EXCEPT for the first bf in high school. Kids in my school started dating at 7th grade, I got my first bf in 8th grade. I think the usual age is around 12-13, but everyones different. I think at 10, dating isnt something you worry about. 10, 11, those felt like my last years of childhood...enjoy it while it lasts.
Me: a 31 year old woman watching a 10 year old try and act like an adult: *facepalm* Just enjoy being a kid and your parents need to monitor you more. We need kid spaces back.
This is why, I will never allow my kids to have social media or smart phones till 17 or 18 years old. they need to go outside and play not play with makeup with unsafe chemicals for children’s skin 🙄.
The way social media is now is the MAIN thing that scares me. Like, when & if I ever have a child of my own especially if I have a daughter the hardest part I know will be teaching her about child groomers & pedophiles & figuring out when is the best time to do that & which age is best.
I really hate when people hate us for stuff that isn't really our fault, Like the constant dopamine addiction, I mean I'm the oldest gen alpha there could be and I'm also brain rotted.
I just found your channel. And Woman! You're saying it all. Thank you.
This is honestly so sad, I remember just playing with magnets and eating my own hair when I was 10. I feel so sorry for these poor kids, their parents should do better🙁👎
I see this with my sister too much. She’s elementary age (I’m not sharing how old she is specifically) and she thinks being mean is funny. I’m older than her and I play outside more than she does. Like I’m in the mud, in the dirt, Yk all the good stuff. She won’t even come outside, and if she is she has her tablet in her hands and yells at me if I ask her to go on a walk with me. I feel absolutely terrible that I can’t even help her now…
When i was 10 i thought everyone was gross. The thought of relationships even kissing someone grossed me out until i was 16. How do 10 year olds now know what the talking phase is or a situationship??? I still thought i was a pokemon till i was 13 or 14. Kids should be outside playing soccer playing house or playing playing pokemon games. Not on tik tok i swear that app rots brains. After you are on it for so long its like you're in a frozen state.
I don't undertand what happened to internet safety. When i was younger my mother made sure I knew to never share personal information about myself on the internet and now parents let their kids tell their age, full name, and personal things about themselves. Not only that but them filming themselves and where they live by showing their houses/schools and things around them that can be used to identify where they live. We need to start teaching internet safty again and that doesn't just go for the kids, they'res some adults that need it severely as well.
i'm so glad i was still doing glmms at their age and making fake youtube videos i would never post with my toys 😔💔 this is just sad
I hate that kids have to live in this age. Their childhood is literally robbed from them. I feel really bad for them. They don't stand a chance to have a normal childhood with social media constantly having their brain stimulated into thinking that they have to be this and look like this and It's all their parents fault. And this behaviour from the parents affects other children and other parents as well .
Hi, stopping kids from saying first lol
Yet you’re basically doing the same thing with that comment
@@Username0467 I know but I am actually first
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I'm too old for social media beyond RUclips, but I watch these videos to keep me in the loop as my husband and I prepare to start a family.
At this point, I am considering getting my future kids burner phones until they're sixteen, so they can call and text, but that's it. I have no idea how parents are protecting their children in this day and age. The concept of the "family computer" might become a reality in our house 🥲
Imagine being a parent and literally taking the childhood away from your child and encourage this behaviour and just blame this all on “gentle” parenting 💀 like no this is not “gentle” parenting this is a BAD parenting like idc this is the truth 💀💀 like in what world do u live in where u allow ur LITTLE children to have social media??
Also pls dont allow ur kids to have snapchat (ik it sounds like a safest social media but its actually not) because there are a lot of weirdos in there that will add u and send you very horrible and inappropriate stuff.. like when I was a kid I literally got sent *inapropriate* snaps by some random dudes whos friend invites I accepted for idk what reason (because I was a freaking kid and noone cared about my online safety) and I was so horrified for DAYS after that LIKE PLEASE dont give ur little kids social media
As a Gen Alpha heres stuff about me.
- No, I dont use any skincare
- Yes, I play animal jam
- Stanley cups are stupid.. Im just drinking out of my water bottle with like 100 stickers on it
- I was born in the early 2010's
- Yes, I have a tablet. IPADS ARE WILD THAT MUCH MONEY FOR YOUR 2 YEAR OLD?!..
- Man i still play with my little pony toys
- I got my tablet when i was 3, i wanted to watch barbie on my own tablet🗣
- My fashion style is scene, its a style from the late 2000's
my young cousin said "i got really skinny too" and as someone who struggles with an ed it broke my heart. shes only 8
1. I can somewhat vouch for these children. Being a late Gen-z’er, I had actual, unsupervised access to the internet at 7-8. At it probably was too soon. I kinda knew that when I was a 10 year old questioning my sexuality and knowing about sex (Classmates who had access to internet earlier than me didn’t help). I am mentally challenged, and while the internet did fuck me up, not all the blame can be put there. It’s a mix of the internet, their strive for popularity, and their parents. The only reason I can FATHOM this much makeup and skincare is because of cleanliness of bumps. I only had skincare because I had acne. At 11, I was using natural cleansers and like, 3 bubble products here and there. When outside, I could wear mascara, lipgloss, and MAYBE eyeliner depending on where I was going when I was 11. BUT A GODDAMN MAKEUP PANTRY ALMOST IS A LOT. Like, I had eyeshadow, but that’s was at home. Hell, I STILL DON’T KNOW WTF TONER DOES. But guess what? My Gen-Alpha sister does. She could tell ya. And she wants more makeup, and more skincare, and more things like that. And she as given access to the internet at a very young age. Like 3 or 4 (Probably because I had it and my parents didn’t feel like Y’know, SETTING AGE APPROPRIATE BOUNDARIES BECAUSE IF I CAN HAVE IT, SO CAN SHE, WHICH IS PARENTAL BULLSHIT). And while my mom would beat my sister for the way some Gen-Alpha’s act, she does what the other moms do. And it’s nostalgic and heart wrenching as it is crazy and dystopian compared to previous generations how these kids are defiant of aging SO BAD that they use products like this.
forever grateful that i got snapchat at 9 BEFORE they added things like spotlight or harmful filters and all these new updates etc, i just had it for the funny dog tongue filters and cool sunglasses and rainbow puke lmfao
I remember my first contact I had with social media was with RUclips when I was 11-12 maybe a little younger, but I wasn’t allowed to have any accounts and my content was monitored by my mom
On my 13th birthday I had finnaly got a phone and immediately downloaded tik tok, Snapchat and all the most popular apps. my little early teen brain was immediately fed videos of all these unbelievably beautiful perfect girls with perfect bodies, flawless makeup dancing in trendy outfits and talking about their “diets” that are basically just starving, not to mention the pure fat phobic trends and such pluse I didn’t know about filters and photoshop then and it did horrors to my self image. I eventually bullied my self into having an Ed and then was PRAISED for my Ed online and I just got worse and worse. Luckily I’m better but I still struggle with my self image today because of my unrestricted internet access as a little kid.
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As a 10 year old I’m nothing like this I literally still wear justice not that I don’t want to tho. I don’t wear makeup and if I do dont wear it out just for fun
First love the vids❤❤❤
I remember when I was in 5th grade, I had this friend in the same grade that had a bunch of boyfriends. I then learned that her little sister, in 1st grade, had at least TEN boyfriends by then. I'm aroace so maybe i just don't get it, but I remember thinking how that was just overkill.
When i was their age (and younger), i had questionable plays as kid (we were playing with barbies, but because we were too lazy to dress them we were playing them be pr*stit*tes who were naked cause their were so booked, i have no idea how we even knew consept) so i find this way better behavior than what i did. also like +10 years go in 5th grade i was seen as "odd" as i was not dated anyone, even thought in previous school it consept was not even talked about. Only crushes exist. I think its not just social media that is "made" kids act like this, we adults just now see "proof" of it happening
I think the main point is not that kids have never acted like this, but that the social media stuff has made it so much worse and so much more accessible. what you experienced at that age is still different because of the difference in technology, even if you think it’s not. inherently, it is.
I’ve seen these… I always dislike and say, “don’t recommend” It’s literally disturbing and I don’t that on my page! 😭
These kids are literally wearing tons of makeup, already shooting videos of themselves, dressing as grown ups, already have an abundant following on social media, by the age OF NINE OR TEN. What did I do by 9 or 10? I WATCHED DOKI DOKI LITERATURE GAMEPLAY? WATCHED PEOPLE PLAY VIDEO GAMES LIKE BATIM, CUPHEAD, LITTLE NIGHTMARES AND HAPPY WHEELS AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF? WATCHED TV WITH MY FAMILY?? WENT OUTSIDE ON MY SCOOTER THAT WOULD COSNTANTLY HIT MY ANKLE BY ACCIDENT, DRAW ON THE CONRETE WITH CHALK AND EVEN HAD SLEEPOVERS AND I SPENT MY TIME WATCHING COOKIESWIRLC AND LPS RELATED VIDEOS. WHY ARE THEY GROWING UP SO FAST AND FOR WHAT REASON?
posted 50s ago LETS GOOOOOOO
That isnt a lovelife if she just has a crush on someone💀
This little girl, sounds exactly like my 16 yr old teenage granddaughter. We have had these exact conversations, but she's a TEENAGER. I am beyond sickened by these parents, I am assuming it's because of neglect or money. Either way it hurts my soul.
As a person who started having social media at aged 14, no child should have it until they’re at least 16
The government needs to start putting out a psa on tv that warns parents about the dangers of the internet. And tells them to put child safety controls on the electronic devices in your house. Because it’s so upsetting how many parents are failing horribly in this way and causing their children trauma.
The government does not care about you or your children. They will not do this.
im a teen and i still sit in my room full of hello kitty and littlest pet shop…
Luckily not all of gen alpha is like this, the other day me and some friends were dressed goth at the shops, and these little girls really liked our makeup and their parents stopped us and told us because they were shy 😭 it was adorable ❤
I have two step siblings one 6 or 7 the other 9 and omg I have never seen kids behave like this, it is crazy. They don't care what you say they are doing what they want. They keep getting in fights with each other over the tablet their mom gave them. At night they have the TV up as loud as it goes playing videos and they just laugh and get out of bed and start tearing stuff up until I get up and turn their TV off or onto lullabies because the one says they can't sleep without a TV and I turn it down and take the remote because they need to sleep and I do too because I have to get up at 5 am for work and we have told them that and THEY DONT CARE. They used to stay in a room with me and they literally tore it up and ripped pictures I had on the wall like wtf. When I was that age I never did stuff like that. This is crazy. Once the 6 or 7 year old was at his grandpa's house with us and his grandpa turned the light off and the kid got up and said "turn the light back on" the grandpa said why and the kid just puffed up his chest and got a pissed off look on his face and said "turn the light back on" what the hell, you can't tell me this is normal
I saw a What’s New at a shopping centre in Traralgon, Vic … maybe 2021. I was so freaking shocked. I hadn’t seen one in 10 years or more. It was awesome
When I was that young I was watching MLP and playing with figurines
Let’s not force kids into adulthood parents
as a 12 year old (birthday yesterday:) i feel like i can't go anywhere where i can be safe. ive loved to play roblox since 2018 yet i feel like i cant be myself in a game thats meant for kids. and then at school i feel like i cant fit in anywhere. picture this, i have a weird personality yet pretty (im not attention seeking sorry) so i dont look like i fit in with the popular group nor weirdos. i dont know what to do
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I was exposed to the internet at a young age, I don’t expose my age on the internet but im not even 14+ yet. Its not appropriate to do such routines at my age, let alone 9 year olds. I only do sunscreen, ceraVe face wash, and lubriderm cream for my face. I think we should all be aware that we don’t have to act all old, even if we’re influenced to. If there are any gen alpha’s reading, enjoy your youth. Don’t feel pressured to grow up as soon as possible.
when i was 10 i had a crush on dio brando from jojo and i still do to this day, yeahhh the anime was way too mature for me i agree
I was given unsupervised access to the internet around age 10-ish (I'm 18 turning 19 now) and it has fucked me up. I was groomed and exposed to a lot of adult media and it caused me to be hypersexual up until around 2020. I was recently diagnosed with PTSD, I'm extremely sexually repulsed and adult media to this day makes me extremely uncomfortable and just remembering my early internet days makes me sick to my stomach. My heart absolutely breaks for all the little kids being raised on their phones and on social media. They should be playing with toys and making up stories everyday. They should be outside playing in dirt and making make believe potions out of leaves and play-fighting with sticks and such, not doing a GRWM on tiktok everyday :(
kids shouldnt be on social media. period.
kids and teenagers just don’t belong on social media
When I was a teen I would’ve hated hearing that, but it’s just the truth at this point.