I’m a mom of four. This is why myself and thousands of other moms are protesting against Josh Peck

So has anyone heard about Josh Peck? He used to be a popular kid actor and I don’t know why but he is back on the scene and has over 9 million Instagram followers. He has millions of views on his YouTube videos and he has been getting lots of brands reaching out to him. He is a dad of two and his family seems to appear very wholesome and happy. And that’s fine, I don’t mind that he’s getting lots of content and being sent things from brands. <br><br>It was unlucky for him when he started having problems with his kids. His five year old daughter would get temper meltdowns and he would document them and post them on Instagram. I didn’t see anything wrong with this in and of itself until I noticed that he would essentially use psychological warfare on his daughter to make her do what he wanted. He wanted her to be able to put herself to sleep so he locked her in a room alone and wouldn’t let her out until she agreed to go to bed by herself from that night forward and so on. He posted videos of himself threatening, guilt-tripping and manipulating his daughter into doing what he wanted until she would finally agree just to stop being interrogated. He also was rough and physically abusive with his son. He admitted to purposefully scaring him to make him behave and he would push him, smack him, slam doors on him and more. <br><br>So when I and other moms first saw these videos, we all posted on our Instagram stories and talked about how inappropriate this kind of behavior was. I was like “wow he’s a psychopath”. I didn’t think much of it until I realized that this wasn’t a one time occurrence. He would post these videos all the time and sometimes he’d post the happy results afterwards. Like, “thankful that Piper is sleeping through the night NOW!”. And he would always act so smug and like it was no big deal that he was admittedly being abusive to his children. I was shocked that Instagram wasn’t removing his videos. <br><br>Also, he constantly talks about how his daughter is difficult. He says “I’m not your personal therapist, I’m your dad” and “I don’t know how to reach you”. He even said that he doesn’t picture himself as a “therapist type of dad”. <br><br>So once I realized that this wasn’t a one time thing, I decided to stop posting on my stories and just report his videos and accounts myself. I reported them all and nothing happened. I realized that 10 reports doesn’t do much, so I did a post on my Instagram asking people to report the videos showing him being abusive and his Instagram account. Josh Peck saw the post and wrote “so you want to have me banned off Instagram”, and I was like.. yeah. I don’t think this is okay and I don’t want to see him continue to post this garbage.