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Dear content creators, stop clout-chasing with your kids

It is one thing to create a brand built on controversy and it is another thing to introduce people who did not choose to be part of that brand to your messy online persona. Celebrities give birth to children and the next thing a child is a content creator at two months. It would be okay if we didn't exist in a judgmental society but that is where you are and it is pivotal for parents to move with that awareness.

I understand the capitalistic need to make money but there has to be some ethics to it. Before social media, parents raised their kids without turning them into content and money-making machines and they managed to make ends meet. No one needs a child to make money but social media influencers seem not to recognize that at all. There are brands that are safe for kids and as an influencer parent, you have to look at your brand keenly and determine if all that clout and controversy is the right environment to introduce your kid to in a world that does not have any scruples when it comes to trolling and bullying.

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