Parents, please stop turning your kids into viral sensations

Internet wrong place for emotional breakdown

By Sonny Bunch, Special To The Washington Post

Published: December 27, 2017, 6:05am

Parents need to consider the emotional health and safety of their children when posting videos of them online. iStock

I realize that turning your kids into viral content can be a lucrative line of work. A family that films their child unboxing toys on YouTube pulled in $11 million last year; a far more insidious family that filmed their kids suffering emotional abuse in the form of “pranks” had more than 750,000 subscribers before their empire collapsed.

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