Effective YouTube Kids: Quality Content in Small Doses
Parents face challenges navigating YouTube content for kids. YouTube Kids app offers curated, controlled viewing. Guide on setup, sharing individual videos, educational channels emphasized. Parental involvement crucial for managing online content.
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The article discusses the challenges parents face in navigating YouTube content for their children and introduces the YouTube Kids app as a solution. The app allows parents to curate and control the content their kids watch, offering a safer and more tailored viewing experience. The author provides a guide on how to set up and configure the app to ensure children access appropriate videos. They recommend sharing individual videos rather than entire channels to have better control over the content. The article also highlights some recommended educational and entertaining channels for children on YouTube. Overall, the piece emphasizes the importance of parental involvement in managing children's online content consumption and offers practical tips for utilizing the YouTube Kids app effectively.
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9 commentsThis way he can still view a selected range of Minecraft videos without getting stuck in the cesspool of '100 days as a chicken' playlists.
Admittedly I think it'll be hard for youtube (and similar sites) to build proper child filters and habits. Not because they're bad people or anything, just because it's too opposed to their incentives
I have enjoyed exploring the intersection between technology and parenting. It can be difficult to find great applications and tools to use with my kids. But, there are things out there that are awesome and aren't exploitive.
I have found that one of my principles while parenting young children in this digital age is trying to teach my kids that they can use technology but we need to make active choices on how to use it. The defaults aren't necessarily the best. In that vein I also put together a list of mobile apps too: https://abparenting.substack.com/p/mobile-games-for-playing-...
I would love to hear other creative uses and configurations people have for technology with their kids.
Its addictive and stuffed full of advertising. I'm lucky that I have BBC and netflix to choose from, sure its annoying them watching shit on repeat, but at least they are not one click away from something nasty, or downright bullshit.
If there is something good, we watch it together. But there is no way they are allowed it on their own