For a while, I followed the Holderness family on YouTube. They are an amusing North Carolina family of four who had a breakout hit when they dressed in matching

For a while, I followed the Holderness family on YouTube. They are an amusing North Carolina family of four who had a breakout hit when they dressed in matching pajamas and sang a Christmas song. For a long time, their two young children were featured in all their videos, acting, engaging and interacting as a family. Perhaps a year ago, first their daughter and then their son vanished from the videos, without much explanation. And I think that it sort of dawned on them that people may have viewed it as exploitative or unwholesome that their children had become, essentially, employees without much of a choice in the matter. So while I miss their witty presence in the videos, I do commend the family on doing the right thing and letting their children be kids, off-camera, and perhaps when they come to adulthood, they can make a free choice to rejoin the comedy skits and music videos.