In recent years, as students have spent more and more of their time in online spaces, trending content such as challenges and hoaxes that spread misinformation through social media have become increasingly prevalent. Challenges on the internet become trending when individual internet or app users record themselves participating in a challenge and then share that recording on internet platforms with the intention of other users copying their actions (Ortega-Barón et al., 2022). Viral hoaxes are similar to internet challenges in encouraging users to adopt or share misinformation to propagate their acceptance (Alonso-López et al., 2021). While some viral challenges and internet hoaxes are harmless, some encourage dangerous behavior or ideology. This article offers tips for parents and educators in response to harmful social media trends.