A couple days ago, my husband sent me a link from a news site that warned parents about this Momo challenge. As alarming as it is, I shared it with as many people as I know to bring awareness to this horrible ....thing.
Some of the people told me they new about it from last summer, but this is not old news. It's come back, making its rounds and now one little girl has died from the dreadful so called hoax.
Well I have one question for you. If you think it is a hoax, what about this little girl that died in Argentina? If it is so fake, ask your kids, or kids that you know. This thing is well know amongst the children.
What is Momo you may ask?
It's one creepy Motherf**ker, is what that is.
A character with big eyes, a creepy smile and of all things... it has chicken feet. Might sound funny, till you look at it.
I want this post to be taken seriously. It needs to be for the sake of our children, so in the following, I will share some links to further explain everything.
Some sick and demented person or persons came up with a twisted idea to take a child's online video ro game and challenge them to doing harmful tasks. If they don't do the tasks, or if they tell their parents, something very bad will happen. So let's have a closer look at that.
Before diving into links, I want you to know that this Momo challenge takes effect all over the world. World Wide Web, world wide effect.
So this is from October 2018. They talk about what it is, what it does, even explains that it comes in waves. (That wave is back).
A woman in the video even says that it scares her and she is an adult. The thing that scares me the most about this challenge is what it is doing to our children. The video shortly talks about one suicide linked to the challenge, unfortunately. Link on that to come later.
I found this video earlier. A young man talking about the momo challenge actually shows some very important parts that I wanted to show in this post. It's all in this one video. It took me some time to find it as so many videos try to prove that it's a hoax. This one video shows the Peppa Pig video that it's in, shows that it is in the Minecraft game as well. It is worth watching this one. This man sends the proper message.
This link comes from a Britain media. (I am from Canada, so here is your proof that it is all over the world.)
Ok, a change of things here. I was talking with a good friend and realized shortly after what I was doing unintentionally. I will explain.
The more I dig in to this, the more I research, the more I feed in the fear and in the very systems that these things are created to do. I didn't realize that this is what I was doing, as I was doing the research to actually be more informed, more aware and to bring this awareness to light. Afterall, if I don't know about it, that could very well mean that there are others out there that may not know.
The thing is, I worried and worry what this Momo challenge is doing to our kids. That poor girl died from it. It's dead serious and scary. True. But the real issue lies behind what is actually happening and I fell for it.
I was naive thinking that what my kids are watching were safe videos. Never did I think that there would be an issue like this. Bad things being shown inside little kids videos.
The way to think about this, for myself, is there are bad things all over. Child abduction, child trafficking, disappearances and it is easy to forget some things because we are easily blinded by other things that occupy our minds. Like watching silly Fail videos, makeup videos, fashion, facebook, stupid trolling arguments, this and that while the truth remains hidden.
This challenge just made me away what I am actually not doing enough. I thought that I was keeping my kids safe by making sure of what they are watching online, that they dont play online games through xbox live, but not letting them have a facebook account and other chatting forums. The error in there is letting them go online. On the internet.
A Think that was created to be used as a tool, has grown massively bringing in more than we can think, including ways of violence, sex, abuse in every corner. And we are letting our so very young kids be a part of that.
So, I have informed you of what is going on. I have informed you to be aware of what is happening and I leave you the choice to decide how to react to this. I think it is important to talk to our children about these things, not in a manner of fear, but in a way that they can properly react to these things instead of hiding in fear. I cannot tell you to keep your kids away from the internet as it is become more and more impossible to do that while we are implanted in these systems. But I can say for myself that while they are home, they will be spending more time away from this leading event, away from this thing that leads are life.
You make the choice of how you live your life and raise your kids. Make it a life worth living and telling about. Make it less about the internet and the fears it brings. 馃挅
