Kids Use a Different Hand Gesture to Pretend They're on the Phone

By Anna Blake

July 9, 2020

A new TikTok video is going viral . . . and it shows that kids today make a different hand gesture than adults to pretend they're on a phone call. While adults stick out their thumb and pinky to mimic a phone handset . . . kids hold their palm up flat to their face to mimic a smartphone

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