As a polytechnic lecturer now, I don’t want to leave online proof of my two left feet. Should my students find me in a TikTok dance challenge video, they might (actually, they will, who am I kidding?) be secretly laughing at me as I try to appear dignified in class. Teens are savage, I tell you.
3. MY SON REFUSES TO DO A TIKTOK DANCE WITH ME
In the name of research for this story, I conducted a social experiment. I asked my 15-year-old son if he’d do a TikTok dance video with me. But I could barely get the question out before he shut me down with a resolute, “No. CRINGEY!”
I take a little comfort in knowing that my kids of my other mum friends are also not on board. One asked her teenage girls, aged 17 and 14, and they questioned her suspiciously.
Daughter #1: “Mummy, are you okay?”
Daughter #2: “Why do you suddenly want to do a TikTok?”
Daughter #1 to Daughter #2: “Mummy is on TikTok?!”
But at least, they sweetly indulged her and asked her what song she’d like to dance to, even suggesting Fifty Fifty’s Cupid. (“Like I would know!” she laughed.)