Mom Tik Tok Trend.
Have you seen the Tik Tok trend of mom’s making a major show of grabbing all their things to “pick up their teenager who hates 3rd period and wants Chick-Fil-A”? And all the comments are just individuals going “yasss Queen grab care of your Pwincess” “Oh my Gawwd Gurl same. My mom used to do that for me”. “So me gurl”. Resembling, this is what we’re up against. Can’t even blame the kids.
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I'm not on TT, so can't say that I have Parents, please also send in a drink for the teacher if you do this 🤗 Kids are being babied and have no resiliency. The smallest inconvenience will cause them to throw up their hands and quit. They're used to instant gratification, so...
Yes. This. So much. I have a kid out on homebound for mental health. Her issue? She didn't like a teacher. Teacher wasn't bullying her, teacher wasn't being mean to anyone - this girl just didn't like a teacher, so her mom took her to the doctor who writes notes for anything ...
I work with 4-5 year olds. Snack time: Miss, I can’t open my backpack. Miss I can’t open up my snack Miss I can’t put my stuff back in my backpack Miss can you put this in my backpack ? Me: take your lunch box, open the backpack, see that spot there? Your lunchbox fits...
100% UGH!!
A mom just posted a huge rant on a local Facebook page about how it's HER child not the schools and if she was her kid to be absent there doesn't need to be an EXCUSE. It was a wild read.
I would actually agree with the parents take to an extent and within reason. An A/B honor roll student who takes like 1 personal day a quarter. That's reasonable. My parents did that they said if you make honor roll each quarter you can take a "free day" the next, just li...
Huh. Just had that in our “concerned parents” Facebook group. So ridiculous. They act like school isn’t important and that school staff make the state laws on attendance.
Ugh, I find these types of people so selfish and narrow minded. Like that's great for you, Facebook Mom, that you care about your kid. But the reason for some of these laws isn't because schools want ownership of the kid, it's because extended absences from school are often on...
Almost every time I see an attendance issue in school, I blame the parent, not the kid. When you positively reinforce this behavior, you aren't building resilient, strong children. You aren't "taking care of their mental health." You're building children that cherry pick what...
YES. Oh my GOD. I don't remember seeing so many of my peers when I was early 20's going, "Uhg, I'm going to quit my 4th job in 6 months because my coworker is a \*\*\*\*!!!!" Like, sure, that's totally normal sometimes for teens in their first job, but then reality is suppo...
I did a health and wellness checkup on a chronically absent student, and the parent straight up told us that they were not going to go through the effort of motivating their child to come to school if they weren’t failing, which somehow, they weren’t.
My mom would let me miss days in school if i didn’t study for the test or do my homework or a project that was due. Maybe it’s just how i am, but i still achieved over a 4.0 in high school and 3.5 in college.
Student: I called my mom to come pick me up bc I don’t want to be in class today. Me: I called my mom too but she said I have to stay.
Student: Huh? I don’t get it. Are you threatening me? ^I ^^need ^^^TP ^^^^for ^^^^^my ^^^^^^bunghole!
Man, I almost wish some moms of my third period kids would do this. What is it about third period specifically? In my five years of teaching I've never had a good one. It's not even a behavior issue most times, they're just kind of surly and dull. (But also, yeah, those video...
Maybe hunger hits at third period? I dunno.
I have a wonderful third period this year! It’s my prep.
Growing up in the 90’s, the only friend I had that ever took “mental health days” was literally a survivor of multiple rapes, so “I need chick fil a” gets so much side eye I’ve become a flounder
Not a teacher, but I'm a clinical social worker who works as a psychotherapist and this thread was recommended to me. Tbh, I hate tiktok and this trend is worrisome...*and also,* you do not need to be a survivor of extreme trauma to take mental health days. I have lived experi...
I don’t even care if parents do this once in a blue moon— like, sure, treat your kid to a special day out of nowhere if you somehow have the time to do that. I see a lot of value in that. It’s the posting it to social media bragging about how their kid texts them to come get ...
If I texted my mom midday asking to be taken out and/or brought chik-fil-a I’d 1. Be told abso-fucking-lutely not and 2. had my phone confiscated because when I was in school (god I feel old just typing that phrase) there was no tolerance for having a phone out in class and it...
Parents doing things to tik tok clout is actually so damaging to their kids. Its one thing to support your kid who has a bad time in school but the whole recording it and then other parents doing it as a trend is insane. I hate that kids already grow up with parents not wanti...
If you were to do a little digging, you’ll find many / most of them have husbands in pretty high paying jobs. They’re essentially minimizing their daughters to become trophy wives. It’s usually the whiniest, neediest, most sociable kids that do it in my classes.
Real Housewives in Middle School? (I think I just strained an eye muscle . . . )
Oh 100%!! I’m one of the Gen Z who graduated hs post-COVID, meaning I saw a lot of this garbage go down in real time. The kids who did this the most were usually (though not always) the white kids or the kids with the most influence. These kids were flat out bullies too, and ...
No worries, they can then rant and rave about how their unemployable 32 year old kid still lives at hime and expects them to take care of them 🤷🏿
Not to be that guy, but as a Non-TikTok User I have surmised that the app is a sort of competition to find the stupidest people possible. Thank you for yet another example to corroborate my thesis
Seems like it. There’s always been stupidly people, but social media motivates people to dumb everything down, plus the monetary incentives.
Lmao we were just now talking about one of my students who does this all the time! Then is shocked he doesn't know how to do math when the test rolls around
I haven’t seen this yet, but I remember a parent on this speech pathologist fb page bragging about how she made a teacher cry and then took her precious baby for ice cream. I got tired of seeing all the accolades so I said you need to make an appointment before seeing the te...
The thing about “mama bear” is that you may need to go mama bear once in their lives. Not once a month. They don’t know they’re raising brats.
Most flexes are annoying but harmless. This kind of thing is fucking poison.
But they’ll be sure to blame the school when their precious angel baby fails
I think millennials are trying so hard to parent better than many of their parents did, but it's crossed into friend territory rather than parent. It is pretty much a daily occurrence for a parent to come pick a kid up simply because they don't want to be there anymore
That's ragebait content. It's best to not care too much about it or use it as evidence for anything.
There are enough kids whose moms have a similar enough mentality for this kind of thing to be a real problem.
It's because they were a bunch of teen moms and used the internet to learn how to parent and went "no contact" with grandma for telling her she was being an idiot.
I mean, the first nice spring day my mom would pick me and my sister up from school to go to the park and do something fun. It just wasn't a TikTok trend and my mom never forgot to write a "I will be picking up Rusty from school today at 12:30pm" note.
Me too. But now we have a crazy amount of absenteeism
And then those are the same parents at conferences yelling at their kids for not having a passing grade… 6th grade teacher here. I have a line of parents and you yelling at your child at my table can be done at home. I don’t need to hear it,
It's just a performance because they don't want you to think they are a bad parent. They'll take the kid out for pizza and ice cream after.
I can't think of a single reason to be on Tik Tok.
As a kid, I got one day a year where my mom would unexpectedly call me off and we’d spend the whole day together doing whatever I wanted. Those are my favorite memories, and I think many of today’s parents have memories just like those. The issue is they want to do it multiple...
Apples, trees.
Since Rump took office, I’ve downgraded that one to “The road apples didn’t fall far from the horse’s ass”. Can’t use it in class, of course, but you know you’ll be thinking it in situations like these.
Of course it's Chick Fil A...
I’m an older millennial and I don’t have friends/know anyone who’s like that with their kids. Who ARE these people?
My 32 year old sister has 3 kids. She just texted our family group chat last week bragging about how she took her 12 year old daughter out for a “mom and me” day….which honestly I think an occasional (maybe once a year?) as a treat is okay. But then my sister complained late...
I don’t think the moms posting those tik toks are doing it for the well being of the child (even in their warped perception of reality) but because they want something to post. Most are trying to make money and garner attention but unfortunately all they are doing is exploitin...
these parents need to be prosecuted for denying the children their right to an education
I swear half the reason the parents do this kind of stuff is because they subconsciously want to be the center of their kid's entire world. "My mom is sooooo cool she buys me this and takes me there and blah blah blah" whole time the kid is performing at 3 grades below grade...
TikTok is the home of brain rot
I have a kid who waltzes in late every day with some sort of fast food beverage - Starbucks, chic fil a, McDonald’s. I finally made them go to the office to finish the drink there and dispose of the cup.
Thank goodness my teenage son knows better than to even try this.
I saw a video the other day like this and it pissed me off so much. How are these parents teaching their kids responsibility? Oh you don’t like school? You don’t like your teacher? You want a snack? Yeah let me drop everything and pick you up. Kids need to learn responsibili...
> I saw a video the other day like this and it pissed me off so much. How are these parents teaching their kids responsibility? Oh you don’t like school? You don’t like your teacher? You want a snack? Yeah let me drop everything and pick you up. I legitimately think it's ...
I’m a Sub. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve come into the front office to check in for my afternoon half day job, to see a table full of CFA Delivery just waiting for the kid to claim it.
Wish I could find it but read an article today claiming that employers are firing Gen Z workers at higher rates than millennials. I will say that I just finished nursing school. My Gen Z classmates really have no idea how to manage actual stress. The amount of mental health da...
I recently had a girl walk up to me before class that said she was called out by her mom to go pick up her younger sibling and take them for lunch because "she was having a bad day". There's not much I can do to physically restrain students from leaving, but if this is how w...
Lmao my mother made me go to school with double lung pneumonia and lost her shit when the school made me go home. Because “I’m not going to have a truancy officer at my door.”
TikTok? Yeah, I don't care
I haven’t but as a mom if my kid texted that she wanted Wendy’s or some such I would tell her TFB.
These parents all want to be “cool” and their kids friend. They’re not doing their jobs as parents.
this trend pisses me off to no end. no surprise there’s so many behavioural issues
So in my first year of teaching, I thought the goal was to be friends with the students so they'd listen to you. Not only did they not listen to me, they didn't really respect me at all as their teacher. I see this trend going the same way.
Are they still going to be doing this when the kid is 25 living at home and unemployed?
I have a Facebook friend who took the eight year old out of school early at lunch time last week to get her hair highlighted for spring. I’m not joking. 😭
I have a student in first grade that regularly gets checked out early to go get her nails done.(acrylic)
When my son has an appt and goes in late for class we always bring his teacher her favorite drink and usually food. (We know her fav breakfast, lunch, coffee drink and Dr Pepper) But, we also send in food for all of the kids. I have sent CFA to his class twice along with Pizz...
No, I haven’t
Urgh..I have seen this and it’s so frustrating. This makes our job even harder. On the other hand, I let one of my kids celebrate straight A”s by skipping the day before break and going to the Life of a Showgirl movie.
My daughter liked to stay home, and often called me to pick her up early. Sometimes I would oblige sometimes not; when I said no it was often a big knock down drag out fight. fight. In high school, they now have a policy that if your attendance is above a certain percentage, y...
My niece because of behavior problems had to finish school 1 hour early every day. My sister couldn't be bothered making 2 trips, so my nephew had to finish 1 hour early also. So stupid
Parents are absolutely our biggest problem
Right
A lot of the comments are probably bots. Nothing on the internet is real.
[my favorite reel of all time](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsPPnyAJ_H4/?igsh=MXg5YnFqcmdsMWI3bQ==) Just a circle jerk of yes and
When I was a kid, my mom would pick me up early once in a while as a treat, we even went to Disneyland for dinner and a couple of rides before bedtime a couple times because we lived close by and had passes. But it was a very rare treat and we didn't brag about cutting class...
Also a few years ago there was a field day and about 50% of the student population decided it was lame and called their parents and got picked up. Some kids just straight up walked out of school. It was WILD
Pathetic.
\*moms
I can’t believe that’s real. Last Friday my son lost a contact in the morning and my husband brought him another one since he needed to read music for a band competition that afternoon. Today he forgot to take his allergy meds, so that was on him. I felt bad for him but I figu...
Why are you using AAVE for the commenters?
I wrote what I read. Didn’t make that connection. Really think of writing like that as internet spelling. Also, that’s really common “girl boss” and “mamma bear speak”.
No one old enough to have children should be on Tiktok.
I fucking hate wealth inequality
I'm not saying that the human race should be wiped out in a huge meteor impact. I'm saying that ALL life should be wiped out in a huge meteor impact, just because of the remote chance that it could evolve to become similar to humans.