A child crimes investigator is going viral on TikTok for sharing the three things she’ll never let her kids do—and you may want to follow her lead
While social media and the internet have helped make the world a more connected place, they’ve also made it a lot scarier. We’re bombarded all the time with content that shows us all the terrifying things that can happen to our kids—and how is a parent supposed to separate the urban legends and freak accidents from actual danger that you should protect your kids from? Thank goodness for this child crimes investigator, who went viral on TikTok for sharing the three things that, based on what she sees through her work, she won’t allow her kids to do. Since she has the experience and evidence to back these claims up, you can feel comfortable following her lead and knowing that the things she points to are actual, real dangers that you can help your kids avoid.
TikTok user @emily.speed7 explains in the beginning of her video that she’s a Special Victims detective who investigates crimes against children. Then, she launches into the three things she says her kids will never have.
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Number one, as you may have guessed, is sleepovers.
“You never know’s gonna be there and that’s not just other adults. That’s also other kids and siblings,” she explains. “I’ve had a lot of cases involving things that happen at sleepovers.”
While this may be controversial, it’s an important discussion. Sleepovers have been at the center of a ton of debate, and according to @emily.speed7, they’re a no-go for her family.
Next up is Snapchat.
“It’s not a good app,” she says. “There’s a lot of predators on this app that try to find kids and teenagers and get them to send pictures and videos of themselves, so I’ve had a lot of cases involving this app with child exploitation, so my kids will never have this.”
The last thing that this child crimes investigator calls out is based on the fact that 90% of child sexual abuse victims know their abuser, and about 60% are abused by someone their family knows and trusts. @emily.speed7 says she won’t teach her kids about stranger danger “just because statistics show that people that perpetrate on kids are usually the ones that are closest to us, that we love and that we trust.” Instead, she says, “I’m gonna be teaching more like, good touch and bad touch.”
She adds that she teaches her kids, “They can always come to me if anything like this ever was to happen and they would never be in trouble. But I’m going to stay away from the scenario of the creepy old man in the van that’s going to snatch them off the street because that’s just not the reality.”
