{"id":25132,"date":"2025-04-01T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25132"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:23:52","slug":"tiktoks-cookie-challenge-tests-kids-and-their-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25132","title":{"rendered":"Tiktok\u2019s Cookie Challenge Tests Kids and Their Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do these kids know that sharing is caring? The viral challenge seeks to find out.<\/p>\n

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When Alissa Torrez, 24, saw TikTok videos of parents doing the viral \u201ccookie challenge\u201d with their toddlers, she immediately wanted to hop on the trend with her 3-year-old son, Oliver.<\/p>\n

In these<\/a> lighthearted<\/a> videos<\/a>, parents test their children\u2019s sharing skills through a simple exercise that goes something like this: They sit on either side of their toddler and present three covered plates, each with a \u201csurprise.\u201d (Hint: It\u2019s cookies.)<\/p>\n

On the count of three, each person reveals what\u2019s on their plate. One parent has a single cookie, the child has two and the other parent has nothing. The adults then wait to see if their child decides to give their extra cookie to the parent without one, who often pouts or sighs to express disappointment and nudge them in the right direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thinking to myself \u2018Oh, I have to do this with Oliver because he\u2019s such an empathetic little kid,\u2019\u201d Ms. Torrez said, adding that \u201cI was just like, \u2018I\u2019m sure he\u2019s going to do something really sweet.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And, indeed, Oliver gasped once he realized there was no M&M cookie under his mother\u2019s paper towel and immediately came to the rescue.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, it\u2019s OK!\u201d Oliver said in the video, which now has more than 48 million views<\/a>. He quickly gave his second cookie to his mother, and covered up each cookie with a paper towel so that everyone<\/em> could experience the grand reveal.<\/p>\n

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Do these kids know that sharing is caring? The viral challenge seeks to find out.When Alissa Torrez, 24, saw TikTok videos of parents doing the viral \u201ccookie challenge\u201d with their toddlers, she immediately wanted to hop on the trend with her 3-year-old son, Oliver.In these lighthearted videos, parents test their children\u2019s sharing skills through a simple exercise that goes something like this: They sit on either side of their toddler and present three covered plates, each with a \u201csurprise.\u201d (Hint: It\u2019s cookies.)On the count of three, each person reveals what\u2019s on their plate. One parent has a single cookie, the child has two and the other parent has nothing. The adults then wait to see if their child decides to give their extra cookie to the parent without one, who often pouts or sighs to express disappointment and nudge them in the right direction.\u201cI was thinking to myself \u2018Oh, I have to do this with Oliver because he\u2019s such an empathetic little kid,\u2019\u201d Ms. Torrez said, adding that \u201cI was just like, \u2018I\u2019m sure he\u2019s going to do something really sweet.\u2019\u201dAnd, indeed, Oliver gasped once he realized there was no M&M cookie under his mother\u2019s paper towel and immediately came to the rescue.\u201cHey, it\u2019s OK!\u201d Oliver said in the video, which now has more than 48 million views. He quickly gave his second cookie to his mother, and covered up each cookie with a paper towel so that everyone could experience the grand reveal.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25134,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25135,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132\/revisions\/25135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}