The latest TikTok trend: A Christmas wish list PowerPoint deck, from your kids

Members of Gen Z—and Gen Alpha—have an inventive new way of telling parents what they want for the holidays, and they mean business.

Last Christmas, my teenage daughter didn’t write out her Christmas list like I kept asking her to do. Instead, she sent me an adorable and quirky video containing photos of the items she wanted, accompanied by notes revealing the specifics (“these in pink, but if they’re out of pink, black is cool”) and video clips of herself. She included a “thank you for stopping by my Christmas list” slide, too, and I was instructed to text the video to her grandparents, aunt, and anyone else who might be getting her a gift.

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