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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

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.

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.