--- title: I'm Just A Kid TikTok Challenge Gives New Life to Old Pics description: The I'm Just a Kid TikTok challenge is a socially-distanced trip down memory lane and the results are highly amusing. canonical: https://time.com/5821238/im-just-a-kid-challenge-explained/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-04-15T15:02:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:26.176Z og:title: Families Travel Back in Time With Childhood Photos for the 'I’m Just a Kid' Challenge og:description: It's a socially-distanced trip down memory lane og:url: https://time.com/5821238/im-just-a-kid-challenge-explained/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Families Travel Back in Time With Childhood Photos for the 'I’m Just a Kid' Challenge twitter:description: It's a socially-distanced trip down memory lane twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Families Travel Back in Time With Childhood Photos for the 'I’m Just a Kid' Challenge by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 15, 2020 3:02 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 15, 2020 3:02 PM UTC As people around the world stay home to prevent the further spread of [coronavirus](https://time.com/5819965/coronavirus-treatments-research/), many are spending a lot of time with their families. And it looks like a new TikTok challenge is helping people wile away the hours with a modern twist on a trip down memory lane. The “I’m Just A Kid” challenge is simple: re-create a childhood photo with your parents or siblings as adults and share the result on [TikTok](https://time.com/5583700/china-tech-tiktok-app/) with Simple Plan’s “I’m Just A Kid” song as the soundtrack to the looping video. The results tend to be hilarious with adults cuddling on their parents’ laps, teens re-creating awkward family photos with their adult siblings, and dads giving piggyback rides to their enormous sons. Some of the historical reenactments require a little help from technology and the directors use green screen tech to add some realism to the recreation. As the challenge goes viral, their efforts are appreciated by people staying home and looking for a little distraction right now, and perhaps, their own families. See some of the participants in action with the “I’m Just a Kid” challenge below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5821238/im-just-a-kid-challenge-explained/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5821238/im-just-a-kid-challenge-explained/"},"headline":"Families Travel Back in Time With Childhood Photos for the 'I’m Just a Kid' Challenge","datePublished":"2020-04-15T15:02:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:26.176Z","description":"It's a socially-distanced trip down memory lane","url":"https://time.com/5821238/im-just-a-kid-challenge-explained/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Brief","clickmonsters","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5821238/im-just-a-kid-challenge-explained/","name":"Families Travel Back in Time With Childhood Photos for the 'I’m Just a Kid' Challenge"}}]}] ```