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> ... and not give just blindly give them laptops and phones The problem is there's no "give them laptops and phones in a non-blind way". It's either "don't g

> ... and not give just blindly give them laptops and phones The problem is there's no "give them laptops and phones in a non-blind way". It's either "don't give them neither a phone nor a laptop" or needing some safeguards to be in place. My 7 years daughter can only watch, under my watch, Netflix / Disney / etc. (not that these don't have their own issues / political agenda). The other day I went to pick her at a friend's place: they were watching a video on YouTube, elsa-gate style, where one blonde was making another blonde binge-drink a 2 liters bottle of coke in one go. What the heck? Videos upon videos on YouTube of people ingesting insane amount of sugary drinks and sweets. And, surely enough, her friend she's already obese. I don't know who makes these videos. I don't know why they "auto play" to kids in YouTube. I don't know why nothing is done about it. But this is evil in its purest form, messing up kids for life. It's under a different form but the Elsagate is alive and well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate

juanani 5y ago
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joshcanhelp 5y ago
We’ll put and thank you for this. We have the same situation here. Thankfully (luckily) they have picked friends with mindful parents but that could change on a whim. Our goal, and I’m sure yours as well, is to try and give them tools and information so they can, hopefully, make good decisions when we’re not around.
- sharken 5y ago
  So much this, give the children tools and information and hope for the best is more or less all you can do. Yes, you can monitor/supervise the child but it will have the opposite effect before you know it. Being a parent is never going to be easy.
johnnyanmac 5y ago
kids are a massive, easily swayed demographic so there will always be some company somewhere trying to market to them. That's why there are so many restrictions when it comes to making kid-focused content. COPPA tried to get Youtube to comply but as you see, it just becomes about pushing the envelope as close as it can without getting fined. given the copious amounts of media in the past that had the obligatory "sugar is bad for you" message, there probably wouldn't be much that the FCC or whoever can do for content like that. I imagine it ended like "and then she puked. see? Sugar is bad for you!". So they get "good morals" and even get to put in the gross-out humor to engage kids.

juanani 5y ago

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joshcanhelp 5y ago

We’ll put and thank you for this. We have the same situation here. Thankfully (luckily) they have picked friends with mindful parents but that could change on a whim. Our goal, and I’m sure yours as well, is to try and give them tools and information so they can, hopefully, make good decisions when we’re not around.

sharken 5y ago
So much this, give the children tools and information and hope for the best is more or less all you can do. Yes, you can monitor/supervise the child but it will have the opposite effect before you know it. Being a parent is never going to be easy.

johnnyanmac 5y ago

kids are a massive, easily swayed demographic so there will always be some company somewhere trying to market to them. That's why there are so many restrictions when it comes to making kid-focused content. COPPA tried to get Youtube to comply but as you see, it just becomes about pushing the envelope as close as it can without getting fined. given the copious amounts of media in the past that had the obligatory "sugar is bad for you" message, there probably wouldn't be much that the FCC or whoever can do for content like that. I imagine it ended like "and then she puked. see? Sugar is bad for you!". So they get "good morals" and even get to put in the gross-out humor to engage kids.