{"id":38071,"date":"2014-09-23T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mcafee.com\/?p=38071"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:10:34","slug":"digital-dares-dumb-kids-smart-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/family-safety\/digital-dares-dumb-kids-smart-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Dares: Dumb Kids with Smart Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember the guy or girl in high school who always took things just a little too far? If there was a snowball fight, he was the one launching rockets that sent someone to the hospital. If a harmless prank was underway, he was the one who managed to elevate it to criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dangerous &#039;Fire Challenge&#039; trend spreads online\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yFI7zCBIeEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While technology has certainly improved our world in amazing ways, it has yet to offer an app that curbs human stupidity. There are still showoffs, daredevils, and jokesters that go too far\u2014only now they have smart phones, which creates a whole new threat level for others.<\/p>\n<p>A quick search of YouTube, Instagram\/Vine, or Google with the hashtag #challenge or #challengegonewrong and you will soon find teens (and adults) filming dangerous games that sometimes go terribly wrong. (Just don\u2019t click too many videos or you\u2019ll quickly be overwhelmed with explicit language and varying amounts of blood).<\/p>\n<p>Most recently the Fire Challenge (#FireChallenge) has people dousing themselves with flammable liquid such as nail polish remover, lighting themselves on fire, and trying to put out the flames before it burns the skin. This game has resulted in severe burns, several deaths, and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.msn.com\/crime-justice\/police-mom-helped-son-partake-in-fire-challenge\">the arrest of a parent<\/a> for helping film her son\u2019s Fire Challenge.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Other dangerous challenges that have made the digital rounds include: \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Cinnamon Challenge:<\/em> swallowing a spoonful of ground cinnamon in less than a minute without water. Danger: Gagging, vomiting, lung scarring, emphysema, lung collapse.<\/p>\n<p><em>Big Knife Challenge (aka Five Finger Fillet):<\/em> \u00a0Quickly stabbing a big knife between your fingers while one hand is open on the table. Sing more quickly each time without stabbing yourself. Danger: Severe injury, accidental amputation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Salt and Ice Challenge:<\/em> Pouring salt on your skin, placing an ice cube on top, and holding it there for as long as possible. Danger: Salt on ice drops its temperature far below freezing, which can cause third-degree burns and amputation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Condom Challenge:<\/em> Inserting a condom into a nostril, snorting it back into your throat, and pulling it out of your mouth. Danger: Choking, death.<\/p>\n<p><em>Neknomination Challenge (neck + nominate):<\/em> Consuming large amounts of alcohol in outlandish ways, then challenging friends to do the same.\u00a0Danger: At least<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/viral-neknominate-drinking-game-linked-deaths-article-1.1621186\">\u00a0five people have died <\/a>from alcohol poisoning while playing this game online.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Cold Water Challenge:\u00a0<\/em>Jumping into an icy lake, swimming back to shore, and nominating a friend to do the same. Danger:\u00a0Drowning and hypothermia. Earlier this year a\u00a016-year-old in Minnesota\u00a0died after swimming\u00a0out into a lake alone to complete the challenge.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Family Talking Points:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Don\u2019t assume your child won&#8217;t\u00a0try it.<\/strong> Peer pressure often masquerades as fun. These challenges propagate from the quest to one-up and compete\u2014emotions that can instantly commandeer the logic of even the most sensible teen in seconds.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Prompt\u00a0critical thinking. <\/strong>When you talk about these online games, simply ask your child \u201cwhat do you think could happen if you do this?\u201d You might be surprised if they really can\u2019t come up with anything. Be sure they can verbalize the risks.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Set clear boundaries.<\/strong> Make sure you communicate what is and isn&#8217;t okay. Remember, your teen has an underdeveloped frontal lobe (the part of the brain that manages impulse control); therefore, his or her definition of \u201cwhat\u2019s okay\u201d and your definition may not always line up.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 State (and restate) the obvious.<\/strong> It may be clear to you that snorting a condom up your nose or lighting yourself on fire is a bad idea but make no assumptions when it comes to your child\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ToniBirdsong_Headshot.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-32180\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ToniTwitterHS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ToniTwitterHS\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/ToniTwitterHS-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/ToniTwitterHS-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/ToniTwitterHS-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/ToniTwitterHS-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/ToniTwitterHS-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/>Toni Birdsong<\/a><\/em><em> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/author\/toni-birdsong\/\">Family Safety Evangelist<\/a> to <a title=\"McAfee\" href=\"https:\/\/home.mcafee.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McAfee<\/a>. You can find her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/safeeyes\">@SafeEyes<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember the guy or girl in high school who always took things just a little too far? 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