a few pro tips from me with two kids now 12F and 14M. Subscribe to youtube premium. you do NOT want those adverts on your kids devices. get them an account eac

a few pro tips from me with two kids now 12F and 14M. Subscribe to youtube premium. you do NOT want those adverts on your kids devices. get them an account each (lie about what their ages are), periodically log in to your kids accounts and look at their watch history and deal with as desired. But more importantly subscribe to the channels you feel they should be seeing and unsubscribe what they should not. You can do this quietly for years and they wont have any idea... its helpful to guide their viewing. one issue here is youtube shorts.. its viral trash like tiktok and gods dammit I wish I could ban my daughter from it. there is just no way to block it. Keep computers in the "family area" not in their bedrooms. keep phones and tablets etc in the family area not in bedrooms put a pihole in your home network, its free, and very simple to setup on a rPi or synology nas or pretty much anything. Setup a minecraft server for kids old enough for it. host it yourself and if you can let their friends play on it. Teach them to lie on the internet. they should not be using their real names and addresses. teach them to use a PW manager. Dont allow consoles. Consoles are zombie inducing machines. They want to play games then its computers all the way because computers are multifaceted tools not just dedicated gaming machines. you never know what they will self educate themselves on a computer. on a console they only have one choice... play games. My son has taught himself C# programing in Unity just by watching youtube videos and self exploration. its a marvel to see him accelerate his learning way past what the school can teach him at the moment. He and his sister are also teaching themselves modelling in blender