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I have a 4 year old, and I let her have some limited video time. I am familiar with most of the videos mentioned, but this is the first time I have heard of vi
by tmaly 9y ago
I have a 4 year old, and I let her have some limited video time. I am familiar with most of the videos mentioned, but this is the first time I have heard of violent version.
I pre-screen what she can watch, and I limit it to about 20 minutes max. YouTube is not on the list, but I will occasionally play music videos as she likes to sing.
Amazon has a number of kids based learning shows Creative Galaxy, Tumble Leaf, and Luna. I wish they would expand out to more seasons as these have been very well thought out. I have not found any issues with these.
The real solution in my opinion is to screen stuff before you let you kids watch it. Leaving a screen open to a site like YouTube is asking for trouble as your not sure what is going to be suggested in the sidebar that they might click on.
- flashman 9y agoWe used to let our kids have semi-supervised YouTube Kids time on our iPad, but they were getting into content that wasn't age appropriate through recommended videos. (The app now lets you turn off search and recommended videos, so the majority of content is from vetted, more family-friendly producers like Disney, Nickolodeon and Dreamworks.) But even if we selected good videos only, we came to realise that (along with video games) we were abdicating parenting to a screen so that we could ignore our children for a while. This is to some extent a useful stress relief strategy – we all need a break sometimes – but without being anti-technology about it, there are better things children can be doing with their time.