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My 8-9 year old niece can't speak because of this. Our language has gendered nouns and she can't differentiate between them. She would say Mister to a woman or

My 8-9 year old niece can't speak because of this. Our language has gendered nouns and she can't differentiate between them. She would say Mister to a woman or Mrs to a guy. Or call a guy a she, but this isn't just the only problem, but the conjugations as well. The problem of course lay with the parents. Not to mention they let her use a regular YT account, well her fathers to be exact and I found out my niece had bookmarked 18+ videos on YT...which I promptly deleted and installed YT kids only for her father to revert to regular YT...on which I then activated child mode or whatever it is.

huhWell 3y ago
My 8 and 10 year old are on normal YouTube a lot and screen in general and they’re excelling in elementary school. But before school ages I socialized with them constantly. Built Legos, showed them SnapCircuits, read books, danced to music and used basic instruments, helped them with basic cooking like measure of ingredients. It has nothing to do with screen and YouTube and everything to do with hands on practice across contexts. Non-verbal, inept kids who did not get hands on mentorship have existed forever. There are more ignorant, inept parents in the world than geniuses. In the US only 14% of the public has more than a bachelors while polls suggest public believes it’s closer to 45%-50% Like much of the world the majority in the US just aren’t that intelligent.
Tarq0n 3y ago
You're not going to get anywhere trying to apply technical solutions to a social problem. Maybe see if the parents would be willing to get a cheap device just for your niece so they don't have to share?
PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
why are you trying to override her fathers wishes on a device he owns? and don't tell me it's for the good of the child, if you really and truly believed that you'd call CPS. This feels like a 1-sided story from the perspective of a karen.

huhWell 3y ago

My 8 and 10 year old are on normal YouTube a lot and screen in general and they’re excelling in elementary school. But before school ages I socialized with them constantly. Built Legos, showed them SnapCircuits, read books, danced to music and used basic instruments, helped them with basic cooking like measure of ingredients. It has nothing to do with screen and YouTube and everything to do with hands on practice across contexts. Non-verbal, inept kids who did not get hands on mentorship have existed forever. There are more ignorant, inept parents in the world than geniuses. In the US only 14% of the public has more than a bachelors while polls suggest public believes it’s closer to 45%-50% Like much of the world the majority in the US just aren’t that intelligent.

Tarq0n 3y ago

You're not going to get anywhere trying to apply technical solutions to a social problem. Maybe see if the parents would be willing to get a cheap device just for your niece so they don't have to share?

PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago

why are you trying to override her fathers wishes on a device he owns? and don't tell me it's for the good of the child, if you really and truly believed that you'd call CPS. This feels like a 1-sided story from the perspective of a karen.