Fucking momo can do one

[NotSoThinLizzy]

Currently my DD 9 is having panic attacks over this stupid thing. Can't sleep and being horrible about it. I understand shes scared but it's getting frustrating now. She went to her friends house after school and had unsupervised access to the Internet (without my knowledge) and looked up pictures of this momo with her friend. Everyone is talking about it at school mostly the big kids winding up the little ones. I've told her it's fake even showed her the YouTube statement about it being fake. What else can I do? So annoyed at the whole thing not at DD.

When my DC have seen things they found scary, I’ve always tried to talk it through, like “wow, the people who made this film really wanted to make the audience scared. Didn’t they do a good job making those puppets/designing those costumes/drawing those cartoons? It worked too! You’re scared of them. They had to plan this all out...” etc etc. Like making it something human rather than something alien if that makes sense.

Yeah tried that when the whole pennywise killer clowns happened a while back. She dosent want to talk about it sets her off hyperventilating. I've tried sitting on her bed but no luck. Even said she can sleep in my bed but no.

DS will be awake wanting a feed soon too need her asleep before that

It’s not even momo I’m annoyed about, it’s the bloody media creating hysteria over a non-story, yet again.
Meanwhile world war 3 appears to be breaking out between India & Pakistan which I expect nobody has heard of.

Maybe show her some breathing exercises? At least calm the breathing down first. It’s hard when they also sort of enjoy the drama of being scared and it makes them feel part of something. Just try and stay super calm, model being cool-headed, try some relaxation techniques. Warm milk and white noise might help or my DS likes a radio on low on a classical music station to help him sleep - I think it calms his thoughts.

Yes there's a few people on my facebook who believe it and they keep sharing stuff and talking about it. If people didnt talk about it it wouldn't be so bad. She may be asleep now I'm lying at the end of her bed curled up and keep getting cramp going to try moving in a min 😂

I'm sure I read that from today all adverts in between childrens youtube videos are to be removed.
I may have dreamt it.

She's asleep woo hoo. She's going to be a handful getting her up in mornings

My 12yo came into bed with me at 2am because of this. Gonna be a loooooong day....

Have them read yesterday's BBC article 'the anatomy of a hoax'

Use it as a teaching aid on not believing everything that happens online.

"I'm sure I read that from today all adverts in between childrens youtube videos are to be removed.
I may have dreamt it."

Yes. I think you did. Momo is a hoax. YouTube does not make its advertising policies based on hoaxes. There is an ad policy for the kids channel, but that's been around for some years

This is great from Newsround https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47402709

I've had a bedfull all night because of this crap

"RomanyQueen1

I'm sure I read that from today all adverts in between childrens youtube videos are to be removed."
There was a story yesterday that no comments would be allowed on YouTube videos of children. Not sure if they were considering it or it was a done deal. Different issue though. That's probably what you're thinking of.

We had an email from school Monday saying they were going to talk to the kids about it so I took the opportunity to tell my dd8 about it instead. She scares easily so I had to be tactful.

We have already talked about internet safety and trolls in the past anyway. She is aloud to watch YouTube but I'm always at least in the same room as her when she is.

I told her that there was a story circulating and that's all it was was a story. I told her that it was a creepy image and if she ever saw anything that she wasn't sure of she should show me straight away.

Although she hasn't seen the image. In your case you could try showing her the actual sculpture and just tell her that this is the sculpture that stupid people who have nothing better to do had made it look like a scary image when in fact it isn't

My son came home from school yesterday in a state about this too. He has asd which means he finds its hard to understand what is real and what isn't which doesn't help.

He hasn't seen the image either but it's been described in detail to him.

He's been awake all night needing to talk about it not being a real person that's coming to get him, over and over again on repeat.

Momo can indeed do one.

I talked to a group about this yesterday and had a bit of success getting through (I think).
I compared it to playground rumours, that speculating that one teacher fancies another soon leads to people knowing for sure that they are married with twins! We had a good giggle, a good gossip about the teachers, and played The whisper game. Two of the children thought it was funny to keep sabotaging the game . We talked about the people who started Momo panic thinking it was funny.

The kids (7-9) all seemed much more cheerful.

My 7 year old doesn’t watch you tube and didn’t know anything about bloody momo. After school discussing it yesterday he is now stressing about it! Ffs

Disclaimer: I am a horrible parent

As this has been fuelled largely by internet hysteria can we not just tweak it so that Momo comes if your rooms a tip and you haven’t eaten your vegetables?

I ended up with 4 people in the bed last night. Hopefully tonight she'll be better but I'm not holding out hope. In need of coffee today. I don't know whether showing her the full picture will help or make her more scared. I'll ask her

So this morning she's now walking around like momo hands behand her back so I did it too and pecked her while kissing so hopefully she'll get it out her system by playing

She thinks it's funny how it's got boobs 😂

My kids are petrified that Momo is going to show up on their tablets.

My 6 year old jumped into bed with my last night because she was scared. She was telling me how she was hiding notes for Momo in class so see if Momo was real.

My 8 year old wouldn't even go to the loo himself when I was explaining Momo to him.

Yes seems to have captured the kids imagination something fierce