Older children frightening toddler with scary videos and talk of snakes

[Whiski]

Just banned a nice day out as I walked in to all my older children showing my 2 year old a scary Peppa Pig video with blood and gore and they were grinning like psychos wtf?

Already my toddler has this thing where if a hair is on the floor and on her clothes she would get scared and say snake. I had to tell her it’s mummy hair look she calmed down but still I have to move hairs in the carpet etc

The other day I heard one of my sons saying snakes snakes to her. I’ve told them in a proper discussion do not create feed in her. She is a blank slate why would you try are create possible life long phobias in a child why?

Ive told them that it is also causing me stress as she is screaming when she sees a hair on the floor or on her clothes.

And then today I leave the room for a few minutes and they got her watching that video.

How old are the older children? I guess they've had the consequence of the day out being called off, but do they properly understand it's because of them scaring their sister.

You need to remove whatever device they are accessing the videos on.

How old are they? I'd be removing all tech....this is really nasty and shows a complete lack of empathy.

Remove any devices from them, natural consequences.

It was on the sitting room tv and I walking in on them pausing it so I took the controller and watched it. They were trying to say she likes it.
They are 11,15,16.
Old enough to know better. I’ve had enough and told them to go away. The 15 year old was the one who put it on and the other two just sat there and said nothing.

How old are they and what are the consequences for this behaviour?

Consequence was no day out so no shopping no nice lunch outside and for my son who put it on he isn’t playing computer next weekend.

This is really nasty.

Do the older ones feel that their noses have been put out of joint by suddenly having a much younger sibling?

I'm not making excuses BTW because their behaviour was reprehensible, but the family dynamic will have changed a lot since the little one came along.

Are they always this horrible to their little sister?

15! I thought you were going to say seven or eight.
At 15 this is really cruel and quite worrying, it’s far too old for behaviour like this. is the 15 year old quite jealous of your toddler ?

is the 15 year old quite jealous of your toddler ?

That was my first thought as well.

A scary peppa pig video?? With blood and gore??

ccan you link to it, I’m amazed….

This is really worrying behaviour for children so old. Their devices would be locked down and removed for the foreseeable future. Definitely no access to YouTube anymore or wherever they are finding these things.

Wow at their ages that is really concerning. How horrible of them to do that to the baby of the house . I’d be disgusted and worried OP. Especially so if one of these siblings is a girl. You’d expect females to be more loving towards a baby for some reason. I’d punish them severely for this to be honest to nip it in the bud

They're fake peppa pig videos. There are thousands of them, and they are not suitable for children at all.

I cannot recommend this article highly enough for explaining the phenomenon.
medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2

Ah ok, sorry for some reason I didn’t consider a fake!

my memories of peppa pig are 10 years old ish but ‘blood and gore’ absolutely didn’t feature, hence the confusion! Miss Rabbit having 99 jobs was the worst it got in my experience 😂

OP, everyone else has given good advice so I’ll get my coat 💐

To be fair, why would the idea of fakes occur to any mentally well adult? If I didn't already know these videos existed on youtube, I would never dream anyone would produce violent knock-off videos of beloved children's TV characters. It's grotesque!

Your not being serious enough for them to learn from this they are not little they need an age appropriate punishment or they won’t learn tell them you changed your mind tomorrow when they are at school Remove all devices from all around the house no tv for them for at least a week tell them you are removing it with no decision of if they will get it back hide it in the loft so they can’t help themselves and absolutely don’t cave, change your phone password so they can’t get on it and change Wi-Fi Password total digital detox. They will suffer let them, if they have homework library computer and print it or homework clubs at school they can explain to teachers why and they need to apologise to everyone effected voluntarily, once they have give 1 item back needed for school tell them if you ever see it again you have found a school in Bangladeshi that needs devices you were going to send them phones games consoles tablets laptops everything get a package box with an addressed label ready and leave it on kitchen side for a school there 🤣 tell them you will send them there next time and not replace them ever.

I had toddlers and teenagers at same time yours are being nasty nobody did this to them when they were little it’s your absolute duty to stop them now before it’s excepted they will get away with abusing her for entertainment.

Make them understand how harmful this is to her if she has a nightmare turn on all lights and wake them all up - one that said snakes to her should hoover up all carpets to eliminate any hair twice a week because of his actions ect Real consequences.
Take her for a treat pepa pig world if she’s not too scared now make them come and stay in that bit of park all day as punishment for traumatising her mine would have hated that🤣 I’m really sorry your little girl had that happen to her that’s so horrible.

Going through the YouTube history this is the video

Im

It has some kind of filter on it to bypass YouTube screening you have ti actually watch it

Like a fake video in the thumbnail

I would be fuming op. I also would have removed his phone to stop it happening again. A consequence next week d seems a long time from the event. Ds sounds like he has issues behaving that way to a toddler. I would want to get to the bottom of it.

Honestly I'd be questioning what kinds of kids I'd raised and how tf it's come to this and if there's something wrong with them or me.