SEPHORA Kids & STANLEY CUPS - Gen Alpha Needs to put the iPad Away

#sephora #genalpha #stanleycup #stanley #ipadkids
Intro: 00:00 - 00:33
Sephora tweens & skincare: 00:33 - 03:38
Stanley cups - why do kinds need status symbols?: 03:38 - 05:43
Parenting in the 2020s: 05:43 - 07:40
iPad kids: 07:40 - 09:00
Outro: 09:00 - 09:49

[@lightningfeather6766]

I'm 12 years old and it sucks to be growing up with kids like this because everyone automatically assumes I'm like this when I'm nothing like it.

[@seriouslypissed]

Exactly like what the hell?

[@lightningfeather6766]

@@seriouslypissed It's so unfair! Just because some people do certain things, it doesn't mean others should take the blame.

[@n0th1ngEx1sts]

Same one time I was at a McDonald's with 2 of my best friends and these group of 14-17 years old kept yelling skibidi or kai cenat and gyat at us

[@badmaidz]

Dw we still in gen z because gen alpha starts in 2013

[@ElectraHeartFan]

I do know a couple of kids my age (middle school) who go to sephoras and ultras and own Stanley’s, but the other half of the girls in my class are fairly normal. Except me, no I’m collecting Barbie dolls

[@CaseyBananas]

I AM AROUND THAT AGE RANGE AND MY LIST WAS STUFFED ANIMALS AND CALICO CRITTERS WTF IS GOING ON 😭😭

[@n0t..Z33]

real, i askd for calico critters and toys for xmas

[@NatDoesVlogs.]

When I was 11 around when the air Jordan’s rose in popularity I wore some vans high tops and got bullied so so bad my parents got so hurt from seeing me cry every evening and surprised me with Jordan’s, and this is the problem and aspect of our society I am scared for the future.

[@carltonace1606]

I agree with your take on this entirely. It is something that worries me greatly too. I have a seven year old, and thankfully she is rather unusual amongst her peers. She's into classical literature and has already read the Hobbit, Anne of Green Gables, and A Little Princess. She is currently enjoying Kipling's The Jungle Book. She can both, multiply and divide and if left to her own devices will busy herself with reading or drawing or holding conversations with her plushies. She's definitely not an IPad baby. But I fear what will happen when she is bullied or exposed to some of this nonsense at school and of the bullying. I am afraid of peer pressure that could rock her world. This is what concerns me.

[@noahbossier1131]

Agreed

[@avajerman]

YOUR CURLS ARE GORGEOUS.

[@loujew8973]

I have an 11 year old daughter and since starting secondary school last Septemeber she's changed alot, she recently sent me links to stuff she wants and they were all skin care products and a Stanley cup! I've had a talk with her about why she doesn't need skin care products but apparently it's fine because all her friends use them. Feel I'm living in an alien world if it's not pronouns and gender confusion it's skin care products and expensive cups. I'm glad when I was 11 pokemon cards were the in thing. The Internet has ruined our children.

[@Captainendou]

That's only in North America but kids in other countries are normal because there parents know how to parent unlike you lol

[@loujew8973]

@Captainendou I live in the UK....

[@vioIetharmon]

Gender and pronoun confusion is normal as kids grow up, so is wanting to use makeup and skincare, but not that young. id say 13+.

[@Someone-kg8qf]

​@@vioIetharmon No, gender and pronoun confusion isn't normal. There wasn't this problem until recently, they are having it put into their heads starting in Kindergarten by activist "teachers".

[@vioIetharmon]

@Someone-kg8qf LMFAOO Kids have always had this problem growing up, its only being accepted until now. Most kids had to hide it, its normal, and its a normal part of growing up. do your research if you really think no one older has ever gone through that. Im not saying teachers should be teaching about this stuff in elementary school (maybe lowest 5th, since thats when they usually teach about menstruation) but it is important to teach them that its normal and theyre not "weird" for feeling that way. It's not propaganda. its acceptance. Theyre not trying to force them to be someone else they arent. If they think they are, whats the problem? They'll grow out of it. If not, thats fine too, its just who they are.

[@SandraOrtmann1976]

Seems parents can't figure out anymore how to teach values to kids. What worried me already when my daughter was little: in Germany, you have to have a license for every little thing. But not for kids...these are a wild card. It may sound ridiculous, but I think it is about time that pregnant parents should do courses how to prepare their children in a proper way for society. Because it appears to me that they often do not know this themselves. Stanley Cups...goodness. The only criteria for my daughter was the size (does it fit into my schoolbag?) and whether these things spilled or not.

[@lisaroper421]

It really is heartbreaking. One of the reasons I am a confirmed luddite (says the lady on her phone and watching KZbin 😅) Also, thank you for your grace for parents! Refressing to have someone be kind even while disagreeing with others.

[@bobnoggets5114]

I see so many groups of little kids roaming around town and all I can think of is where are their parents. I am not aware of how it is outside of the US, but parenting is an absolute mess here. I feel like part of the issue could be the current parent age generation viewing kids as an accessory.

[@noahbossier1131]

Yeah. A lot of them became parents to be viral on Tiktok. Also pressured to by their parents.

[@noahbossier1131]

Also a lot of parents are overworked

[@anonymussicarius8899]

it is a dire situation, we can´t eve nfathom what is waiting down the line for us, once these kids are in our age now. All because their parents didn´t parent...

[@cherrylane90]

In the 🇬🇧UK 🇬🇧 the craze atm is these water bottles called ""Air Up"" water bottles where its a regular water bottle but what makes it fancy is a disc that fits over the nozzle on the water bottle that when u smell it when drinking the water it tricks ur brain into thinking ur drinking flavoured water xx💧🍓🍒🍏🍊💧,the discs come a whole load of variety of flavours but also there not cheap.xx

[@muffinmacaroni]

I live in uk and personally I think it’s kinda overrated and overpriced but all of my friends had it!

[@faerie-starvartvlog]

Seeing this makes me glad I grew up in the late 80s and during the 90s(born in 84). When I was a kid, I mostly spent my time playing with toys, reading books(Goosebumps, Babysitters Club, Animorphs, etc.), drawing, and playing outside. Heck, I even used the cardboard boxes and some of my brother's toys(TMMT, Transformers, etc.) to play with my Barbie toys and pretend the boxes were her 'dream house'(it was too expensive so boxes it is) and was a scientist/model helping the action figures. XD I have a crazy imagination back then. The only electronics that my brother and I are only two hours of TV watching cartoons(we didn't have cable so we could only watch UPN Kids and Fox Kids, no Nickelodeon). We didn't get video games till 1997 when Mom got my brother a Nintendo 64 for his tenth birthday. Even then, Mom would limit us the time so we wouldn't get too addicted. Same with the computer and back then, social media was in the infant stage and you couldn't stay online anyway because of dial-up.

[@palesgensler3099]

As someone who is born in 92. I am happy that I grow up during a time when we had electronics. But we didn’t rely on them as much as we do today. I’m also happy that social media was not a thing until I was a teenager.

[@ErnaB790]

I'm more grateful every day that I had the luck of growing up in the 90s 😅

[@me9981]

Same. I was always grateful I was born in 1990, so I was a kid and a teen in the 90s and early 00s. But like...last 10 years I'm more and more happy I am not younger so there was no danger for me to grow up like these kids + I had great parents who raised me as a decent human being. It's so shitty how parents nowdays are not parenting. It's not kids' fault at all. It's all parents and media 😢

[@therubyminecart5291]

I’m grateful I grew up in the early 00s, I’m grateful that I was taught proper manners and knew how to behave in a store and around people, plus it’s just a cup! A cup! Plus destroying makeup? Wow just wow.

[@handlebecauseihaveto]

The internet should never have become a culture.

[@supermarionicholas931]

And this is why there are rumors that the internet is going to shut down this year or in 2025 due to natural causes.

[@bebbization]

When I was a kid in the 2000s, there was a lot of pressure to buy super expensive winter jackets. Kids were pressured to spend money to show off status back then too, but I also believe that it has gotten worse now

[@BlueThunderboltsiren]

As a Gen Z, I legitimetly hope this will be a wake up call for my generation, and be way better parents than the Millenials. It shouldn't take a generation like mine to tell a Millenial to discipline their child like this.

[@GerSanRiv]

I just want to say your videos are good takes on the "culture war". All I see is a young woman with her head on her shoulders warning about trends she is worried about. No american (I'm not american either) partisan allegiance here. Society dismisses these sort of content because it lacks "credentials" or "a huge media following". But you're right. I'm nearing my 30's, I am not even close to being adults my parents were my age. They raise children, I'm afraid of the living cost of just one person on a small apartment. Economics plays a role, sure, but I believe it comes from a good intention of trying to provide the best for our future offspring. However it's backfiring, HARD.

[@noahbossier1131]

Agreed

[@Flippotycoon4583]

Yeah this is nuts it was even on the news here. Those kids should just enjoy themselves go outside these are some of the best years of their lives.

[@xoxo.pochacco]

I have a friend whose youngest sister is a tween right now, and when I visited them, I was shocked by how normal they were? They're homeschooled, but they go to co-ops and sports and church so they still hang out with friends, but they seemed so unaffected by social media. The tween asked me for tips on starting a doll collection, and she showed me her calico critter collection. She was wearing cute graphic tees and patterned pants that reminded me of my justice era. My friend has a phone with no social media or Internet browser, (they still have computers, and they grew up playing mobile games on their tablet) but I asked her if she had heard about sol de Janeiro, and she had zero idea what i was talking about.

[@Its._Vicxieee]

@lightningfeather6766 I couldn’t agree more, as a tween I obviously have basic stuff like spf, moisturising cream, and a gentle cleanser but ppl call me a Sephora kid for no reason just because I own 3 things for my skin??!! 🤬🤬Why does this happen?? I have no comments for the Stanley cup craze though, since my school is thankfully unaffected by it, yet I’ve heard a bunch of stories of ppl getting hurt over some overpriced cups, which no one will give a crap about next month. Seriously, even on some tweens’ behalf (if u don’t agree with me that’s totally fine) that is unhinged.

[@phoenix-sound]

Overly animated facial expressions on TikTok. They are trying to look like Disney characters 😂

[@user-ht1sh4pk7m]

I’m a 12 year old and it sucks because my sis is 9.. 9 YEARs old and she wants skin care and she makes excuses and says she has “pimples”

[@ScarlettELIZABETHTaylor-hl7er]

I’m 11. And I’m not a Sephora kid, I love skin care but my mom is buying my skin care products. Am not destroying the products. So not all preteens and teenagers are destroying the products!

[@Redhairedviking09]

The problem in today's society is that people (and by people I mean the younger generations, but I see this kind of behaviour in some adults as well) have lost their sense of individuality. Back in the day (I was born in the early 90s) there were trends already, and if you didn't have a triple decker Power Rangers or a Dragon Ball pencil box, you weren't cool. But we just wouldn't care. Yes, there were some that would cave, and maybe I'm just speaking for myself here, but I never gave two craps about it. Same thing with music. All the kids were listening to mainstream music, but me and my group of friends were listening to classic rock n' roll, grunge, and eventually metal, because that's what we liked and what spoke to us. So what if we didn't get to be a part of the cool kids? They were just a bunch of brain-washed sheep that would follow whatever thing was trending at the moment. But kids these days are so desperate to be accepted by the group, and are so influenced by peer pressure, that they are willing to abandon the things they like, in order to be accepted, that they lose what makes them, them. Individuality is such an important aspect of our lives, is what defines us and makes us who we are. But the younger generatios are being robbed of that. They all look and behave the same way. They're like photocopies of each other. Now more than ever before. I see it with my students. I can tell that there are some kids that are into books or more alternative music, but they hide it, lest the other kids make fun of them or put them in some sort of social apartheid. And that's really scary.

[@clfldlclc7204]

This is completely random but your hair!? IT LOOKS AMAZING! pls drop ur routine because I am jealous haha

[@PreppyCircle]

Makeup and skincare at that age should a bonding time with your sister, mom, grandma, etc. I’m 12 and I got my first perfume today with my mom. I had about $45 dollars left on my Sephora gift card (it had $100 dollars originally and my grandma and grandpa gave as a Christmas and birthday gift). I knew the only perfume I could afford was Sol de Janeiro. I tried some of the perfumes with my mom smelling them too and commenting. I chose the 62 perfume mist. I check out and I love my new perfume. My mom told me how to use it properly, like how you should spray very little and how that I still have to shower. Thanks Mom and grandparents.

[@hayleyboyd2513]

also people saying that all ten year olds are like this is making so many kids at my school burst out crying

[@jameskreth3681]

Say no to stupid things!

[@TheCerealluvr]

I HATE IT. I hate these trends 🤮

[@renisha8811]

Im a Sephora kid so im goin to use drunk elephant and sol de jainnero and glow recipe

[@maninanikittycat4238]

GET THEM AWAY FROM THE SKINCARE PRODUCTS AND GET THEM SOME LEGOS OR SOMETHING

[@supermarionicholas931]

Agreed bring back Lego's and toy's not Skincare Products that's a no no. Skincare and makeup should only be for adults 18 and over period. That should be a law to protect are children of this country.

[@n0t..Z33]

im a gen z an have a fake stanely but i dont act like this, i have an amazing childhood where i dont go on my tablet alot or do alot of makeup, i have a millenial/2004-2010 childhood 😅

[@kp9894]

A lot of parents shouldn't be embarrassed nor afraid of not allowing their children to use social media until 13 or even as late as 16 years old. Let them enjoy their childhood without social media.

[@casscat7]

it makes me really sad, i don't understand why those kids are like this.

[@UrLocalTotalDramaFan78]

as a tween, not all of us are like this

[@itsnelly282]

I’m 10 and I do have a skin care but all I have is a blemish stick and another acne product I started getting acne at 8 so I have been using those 2 products for like 2 years oh sorry and I have a CeraVe cleanser that I share with my mom

[@Caleb0102]

I'm an early gen alpha who just missed gen Z. I believe to be one though because I agree with gen Z on the fact we need to show millennials that kids are good or bad by discipline.

[@nhoj1249]

Stanley cup then, sephora now. What next? Luxury brands?

[@jameskreth3681]

Woot😅

[@CelesteWuff]

did you speed the tiktoks up? if so like, idk pls dont, it was impossible to keep up if they were sped up to begin with.... why tho

[@pansy4687]

so the video isn't longer

[@CelesteWuff]

@@pansy4687 yeah but it makes it extremely difficult to keep up

[@cheryltamelcoff2557]

We don’t even know the effect the chemicals in these products have on the development of kids.

[@Mm2_Haven]

My class bullies ppl with Stanley’s they’re like eww they have a Stanley like ohhh look at me with my expensive little Stanley yes I like Stanley’s but I only have one it keeps my drinks cold all day and it’s cute but I rlly like the cup don’t come at me bc I like Stanley’s bc there’s prolly gonna be ppl hating on me bc I wanna have a cute cup that keeps my drinks cold

[@hayleyboyd2513]

i cried yesterday because someone called out my friend for having a skincare rountine shes ten and im ten anyone is aloud to have a skincare routine so to that woman that called her out the other day you probally have wrinkles and dry ugly skin:)