Parents face furious backlash over new TikTok ‘egg challenge’ that sees them cracking eggs on their children’s heads – with toddlers left confused, in pain and bursting into tears

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Parents were today facing a furious backlash over a new TikTok challenge that sees them cracking eggs on their children’s heads. 

Footage shows toddlers left confused, in pain or bursting into tears after the ‘egg crack challenge’ – which some have compared to child abuse. 

Other critics accused the parents of exploiting their children in order to gain social media followers. 

In some cases, the children appear to be older and are seen laughing after the egg is cracked on their head.  

Among those to criticise the trend was Sarah Adams, who campaigns against parental ‘oversharing’ online. 

In this case, the child screamed ‘mama’ and started crying after having the egg cracked on him

Meanwhile, this toddler appeared confused when her mother cracked an egg on her head during a cooking session 

She said: I’ve been tagged in a few of these videos and I’ve seen it go two ways. 

‘One, the kid gets the egg on the head and they’re kind of confused, thrown off, thinks it’s a little funny. 

‘Then they move on. Or, they get the egg cracked on the head and they’re really upset about it and they freak out,’ Sarah explained.

‘But when I see those videos I think, are we that bored as parents and desperate for content?’ 

Ms Adams continued by questioning the motivations of the parents involved, asking: ‘[Are we] needing to post on the internet so bad because it is so consuming to be a part of our world?

‘And the dopamine hit, and the likes and views, that we now in 2023 are cracking eggs on our children’s heads in hopes that they have an entertaining reaction that we can post publicly online to entertain strangers?’

It comes a week after ‘TikTok yobs’ were seen rampaging around Oxford Street as part of an ‘appalling’ new craze encouraging youngsters to rob shops. 

The Met Police were forced to divert officers on London’s biggest shopping street and put a dispersal order in place to combat the threat of law-breaking. 

Large numbers of officers then had to flock to retail areas in Southend and Bexleyheath in the following days to prevent copycat attacks.

It comes a week after ‘TikTok yobs’ were seen rampaging around Oxford Street as part of an ‘appalling’ new craze encouraging youngsters to rob shops 

In response, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned anyone taking part would feel ‘the full force of the law’.  

He said: ‘Criminal damage, criminal behaviour is unacceptable. I fully support the police in bringing those people to justice.

‘I want anyone watching who is thinking about this, who sees something like this, to know that they will be met with the full force of the law.

‘Because that type of behaviour is simply unacceptable in our society.’

In June, a mother raised the alarm about another game spreading on social media called the ‘tap out challenge’. 

This involves being put into a chokehold to the point of passing out.

In June, a mother raised the alarm about another game spreading on social media called the ‘tap out challenge’ 

Katy Spence, a mother-of-two from Boston, Lincolnshire, was taking her son to the park when she spotted a group of schoolchildren goading each other to do the lethal challenge, Lincolnshire Live reported.

She said: ‘There was a group of around eight of them and they were being loud… I usually would never say something to someone else’s child, but when I heard them say that, I had to intervene.

‘I said to them that they shouldn’t play that game, but they didn’t care what I had to say and said ‘are you going to stop us?’

‘They just had no regard for the danger they were putting themselves in, when I told them that they could end up in a wheelchair they just didn’t care.’

And last month, it emerged young women were risking organ damage by following another craze that promotes drinking a toxic cleaning product to relieve joint pain, fight infections and aid weight loss.

Hundreds of clips posted to social media app TikTok show advocates of the worrying trend mixing a US multi-purpose cleaner called Borax with water and drinking it daily. 

And on Facebook, users recommend that soaking in a bath containing it can ease joint and muscle pain.

 But Borax, which contains the mineral boron, is toxic, even in amounts as small as a quarter of a teaspoon.

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