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Part of me really wants to believe this is a joke. But given how often toddlers are "taken care of" by planting them in front of youtube :|

jvanderbot 3y ago
Which is crazy because there's plenty of good content for kids on Youtube (if you really need a break!). Blippy, Meekah, Seasame Street, even that mind-numbing drivel Cocomelon (which at least got my girls talking/singing really early).
- realfeel78 3y ago
  There's actually no such thing as good "content" for kids, sorry.
  - jvanderbot 3y ago
    I get the sentiment, but when reality hits unrealistic parental expectations, things get messy. If you have to put a show on TV to give some songs to sing along to or to distract them while you're making lunch, I'm not judging you, and I think it's best to put this content on a gradient rather than black and white.
    - 9991 3y ago
      For all of human history until 70 years ago, no baby watched TV. Reconsider what you "have to" do.
      - devbent 3y ago
        People had extended family around, now days they don't. Parenting is easier if you have 5 family members in walking distance and they also have similarly ages kids who can all play together.
      - jvanderbot 3y ago
        Neither did they have vaccines, bikes, gymnastics classes, dozens of books, a constant supply of fruit and veggies, family vacations, tractor rides, swing sets, family movie nights, planetarium projectors for a few bucks, zoos, kids museums, and in general a conflict free peaceful and disease free existence Focusing on such a tiny thing and blowing it up into a huge negative out of context of their rich, busy, and safe lives is really out of hand.
  - IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
    If you are trying to get kids to be fluent in a 2nd or 3rd language, there certainly is
- TeMPOraL 3y ago
  Sure, and most of it starts with a jingle and ends up with begging block. I used to cut all those things to shape with youtube-dl and Audacity; we have a library of a good hundred+ of sanitized songs to play, but with modern world hating files and anything offline, it turned out to be quite a hassle to keep the practice up.
TeMPOraL 3y ago
It's not. Kids overhear what parents watch, their ears are like little recorders. Meanwhile, kids videos near-universally end with either a like&subscribe admonition, or some crap like "ask parents to download our tablet app". Even the quality videos, they all do that. Even if you don't show children videos, but want to play some music, YouTube is still the least-hassle, least-bullshit music stream player (arguably still it's main use for adults, too). Ain't anyone got time to deal with Spotify's ever more broken app. And this is the limit of technical skill of almost all parents. They can't exactly run SponsorBlock in YouTube's mobile app (and paid YouTube doesn't help here either, surprise surprise). Not making excuses (though I'm not really blaming parents for this) - just saying how things actually are.
fennecbutt 3y ago
Which has been done for generations. And before TV it was leaving the door wide open for them to free roam whether they suffered or prospered from it.

jvanderbot 3y ago

Which is crazy because there's plenty of good content for kids on Youtube (if you really need a break!). Blippy, Meekah, Seasame Street, even that mind-numbing drivel Cocomelon (which at least got my girls talking/singing really early).

realfeel78 3y ago
There's actually no such thing as good "content" for kids, sorry.
- jvanderbot 3y ago
  I get the sentiment, but when reality hits unrealistic parental expectations, things get messy. If you have to put a show on TV to give some songs to sing along to or to distract them while you're making lunch, I'm not judging you, and I think it's best to put this content on a gradient rather than black and white.
  - 9991 3y ago
    For all of human history until 70 years ago, no baby watched TV. Reconsider what you "have to" do.
    - devbent 3y ago
      People had extended family around, now days they don't. Parenting is easier if you have 5 family members in walking distance and they also have similarly ages kids who can all play together.
    - jvanderbot 3y ago
      Neither did they have vaccines, bikes, gymnastics classes, dozens of books, a constant supply of fruit and veggies, family vacations, tractor rides, swing sets, family movie nights, planetarium projectors for a few bucks, zoos, kids museums, and in general a conflict free peaceful and disease free existence Focusing on such a tiny thing and blowing it up into a huge negative out of context of their rich, busy, and safe lives is really out of hand.
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
  If you are trying to get kids to be fluent in a 2nd or 3rd language, there certainly is
TeMPOraL 3y ago
Sure, and most of it starts with a jingle and ends up with begging block. I used to cut all those things to shape with youtube-dl and Audacity; we have a library of a good hundred+ of sanitized songs to play, but with modern world hating files and anything offline, it turned out to be quite a hassle to keep the practice up.

TeMPOraL 3y ago

It's not. Kids overhear what parents watch, their ears are like little recorders. Meanwhile, kids videos near-universally end with either a like&subscribe admonition, or some crap like "ask parents to download our tablet app". Even the quality videos, they all do that. Even if you don't show children videos, but want to play some music, YouTube is still the least-hassle, least-bullshit music stream player (arguably still it's main use for adults, too). Ain't anyone got time to deal with Spotify's ever more broken app. And this is the limit of technical skill of almost all parents. They can't exactly run SponsorBlock in YouTube's mobile app (and paid YouTube doesn't help here either, surprise surprise). Not making excuses (though I'm not really blaming parents for this) - just saying how things actually are.

fennecbutt 3y ago

Which has been done for generations. And before TV it was leaving the door wide open for them to free roam whether they suffered or prospered from it.