Parents of students in kindergartens and kindergartens were told that their children were exposed to scary and terrifying scenes while watching TV in classrooms. The daily program in preschools included watching TV for at least two hours under the pretext of teaching children to speak and helping them to speak properly. Abu Dhabi, received instructions from their nursery administrations to prevent YouTube Kids from running after warnings of the emergence of the "Momo Challenge" inside children's cartoons.
"My child told me he was afraid of the monster coming to him and when asked, it turned out that he had seen one of the scary scenes in a children's cartoon series during his nursery," said the mother of a three-year-old child, Salwa Hassan. "I checked the nursery and asked them not to show such things to the children.
Magda Ahmed, the mother of a three and a half-year-old child, said her son knew Momo's character "a girl with thick hair and two prominent eyes and a terrifying satanic smile" and told her that he had seen her beforehand in one of the cartoons. I was surprised that the offer is directly through the YouTube Kids application without any review or interference from the class parameter.
In addition, the students of Ahmed Salah, Maram Said, Ghada Islam and Eman Gamal called for the need to organize the programs in kindergartens and kindergartens and to supervise the preschools and schools by specifying the permitted programs and licensing them so as not to infiltrate wrong concepts for children. , Or endanger their psychological integrity, especially as their children daily watch the series of children "Carton" in the classroom, and are strongly affected and try to imitate them.
While the newspaper continued with the Department of Education and Knowledge, as the body responsible for nurseries in the emirate and asked about the mechanism of follow-up nurseries and kindergartens and ways to ascertain what is presented to children? Has there been any warning to kindergartens and schools in the recent period of the need to monitor the content presented to children and any of the matters that pose a danger to their psychological well-being and affect the formation of their personalities, and the Department said that it sends the compliance teams to visit the kindergartens on a regular basis, and each nursery receives a detailed report on the visit.
On the other hand, teachers in Abu Dhabi nurseries, who asked not to be named, confirmed that they were instructed by those in charge of nurseries not to play children's TV series on the Internet after watching inappropriate scenes in the soap operas and spreading warnings on the internet. Under the name "Momo Challenge", targeting young people and asking them to do things that are dangerous to them.
The teachers pointed out that the nurseries replaced the direct view, with pre-recorded cartoon series of the same characters beloved to children, but has been reviewed to ensure their positive educational content and free of any scenes that do not fit with children.
The Momo challenge is a figure of a girl with heavy hair, two eyes and a terrifying devilish smile, targeting young people and teenagers, and asking them to carry out dangerous challenges that would hurt themselves.