Shaytards, Daddyofive And The Danger Of Growing Up In Public

The couple has two sons, Oliver and Finley, and posts a vlogevery day. It is an exploitative child labor practice that needs to be controlled, or perhaps even stopped altogether, in the immediate future. Otherwise, we will be faced with a new generation of worn-out child celebrities who know the lens of a camera better than their parents’ faces.

Parents and owners of family vlog channels seem to neglect the more genuine aspect of home movie-making that existed before the social media revolution. The aim is not to have valuable private documentation of the good, the bad and the ugly to pull out at celebrations to reminisce. When parents then establish themselves as channel owners involving their children for monetary gain, the lines between parenting and business become blurred. Let’s begin with what is at the core of family channels— the children.

An example of this is Allison Irons, a YouTuber who took down all her videos which included her children after she realised that her videos had been shared to paedophile websites. I think this example clearly shows that children shouldn’t be growing up on YouTube, and family vloggers should take more proactive steps to protect their children if they are going to continue to film them. For the most part, family vloggers’ content is light-hearted and wholesome.

“Really disturbing things.” She never knew how seriously to take them. You never really know.” The Eh Bee parents don’t allow their kids to be online unless they are in the room with them. We have an obligation to change our culture and model consent to our own children. This starts by talking to the kids in our lives when we share a post about them or with their picture, and what that might mean for their online image and safety.

They have access to the videos family vloggers put out and so there is no excuse for not researching the channels they wish to work with. If every company had these kind of checks it would help to reduce the spread of toxic channels. The responsibility should be shared amongst parents, the law and social media platforms, as well as social media channel representatives and brands who reach out to family vloggers for advertisements. There is so much positive family content on the internet and social media is an excellent tool to connect parents by offering support and resources. But engaging children in such a public manner poses a risk to their privacy and emotional development.

Then Butler announced that he was struggling with alcoholism kids playing and needed to rehabilitate. “It’s been impossible to keep up this perfect ‘happiness is a choice’ mentality,” he wrote on Twitter. Claire enjoys finding sustainability in design and relating art to every day life. In her free time, she enjoys city and canyon drives listening to One Direction.