Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Language is always evolving - and for Generation Alpha, who are growing up fully immersed in digital culture, slang is more than just words. It's a way of connecting, creating identity, and signalling belonging online and offline.
From TikTok trends to schoolyard lingo, Gen Alpha has a whole vocabulary that might leave older generations scratching their heads - and sometimes even Gen Z a little confused!

In this week's episode, our host, Ashley Fell, sits down with two of McCrindle's Gen Z team members, Holly Schaaf and Luke Davies, to help decode this generation and their slang.

Download the Parenting Gen Alpha infographic here:
https://mccrindle.com.au/resource/infographic/parenting-generation-alpha-infographic/