A new TikTok trend, dubbed ‘pink bag cover moments’ online, has users sharing awkward moments with their parents from childhood.
The trend started after a TikTok user named Jaycie shared a clip of herself crying, explaining that her mother yelled at her and demanded she put the ‘damn pink tops in my damn room.’
In the awkward clip, which was later deleted, Jaycie recounts the situation and says she was drying her hair after taking a shower in the bathroom when her mother started screaming and banging on the door.
She recounted, “So I was like, ‘What?'” and she says, “Do you want to have a fucking spa day?” Go to sleep! “I need help.”
The video was full of comments from concerned users.
Viewers then immediately began sharing their experiences with the ‘pink bag moms’, which ranged from disagreements and misunderstandings between parents to physical and emotional abuse.
Dozens of users have said that their childhood consisted entirely of “pink bag top moments.”
The moment was discussed by Whitney Goodman who is a licensed marriage family therapist and who said that these “pink-topped bag” moments are common in children seeking separation from their parents.
A new TikTok trend, which users have dubbed ‘pink bag moments’, has users sharing awkward moments with their parents from childhood.
“When I talk to adults who have been separated from their parents, they have no shortage of these ‘pink-lid moments,'” she shared in a video.
The therapist went on to say that they are, in fact, very “common.”
“In these moments where it’s like the parents are just unleashing their anger on the child, they have absolutely no ability to hold back when they’re frustrated,” he continued.
He went on to say that parents who are guilty of this often make their children feel “stupid,” and listed some of the most common ways they do it.
“(I have discovered) people are surprised when you talk to your child like this when they are a child, act this way around them, insult them, belittle them, attack them for making a small mistake or moment and then wonder why they didn’t “No I want to spend more time with you,” he shared.
“This is one of the most common topics I hear from these adults,” he explained.
“Hundreds of adults I talk to every month tell me, ‘My parents really acted like they didn’t like me, they acted like they didn’t want to be around me,'” she shared.
Whitney went on to say that it could get to the point where an individual is treated so “horribly” during truly harmless interactions that they end up being afraid of their parents.
Users immediately began sharing their experiences with ‘pink bag moms’, from parental disagreements to physical and emotional abuse.
“If you are a child or an adult who has experienced these moments with your parents, I want you to know that it makes sense for you to be upset about this,” he explained.
“We should not normalize this in our homes and in our families,” he concludes in the video.
According to a survey published by parenting experts BabyCenter, 32 percent of parents want to be more supportive than their parents when raising them.
The results found that today’s moms also feel that they are more informed and aware when it comes to raising their children than their fathers.