I don’t understand why YT a kids isn’t a completely parent controlled thing. I’d like to be able to simply choose the channels that my kids can watch any time, and let’s leave it at that.
Why does this not exist?
Why does this not exist?
If myspace gave us the canvas and an unlimited selection of paint colors, Facebook gave us a color by numbers coloring book and four pre-approved shades of blue, along with a small static shock whenever a color went over the line.
And you know what? As a guy with no kids If it takes parents getting mad at YouTube to finally get some sort of critical mass on giving more control to the end user how they interact with the platform (aside from obvious outliers like malicious/offensive/illegal content), I'm all about it.
I wish platforms would realize this. We're glad to use the platforms, just stop trying to herd us into doing it the way you want.
Maybe I'm looking at too rosy of an ideal, here though.
I see one YouTube Whitelist app on the Play store already but it's got in-app purchases and just generally doesn't look that great.
You just have to do it "the old fashioned way", aka, spending the time with your kids.
Besides, have you ever had a bad day and wanted to finish dinner while your child decided to be a bit bratty? It’s not the best choice to put kids in front of screens and I do it very minimally, but this shaming tactic isn’t helpful
* The few I have met who say these things have full-time live-in nannies so they're not exactly models of "spending time with their kids" either...
This is not a corporation's job. Multiple streaming services have kid sections, downloading actual files that are the ones you want your child to see, etc.
Curating content for your children has never been faster or easier, so...how'd our parents do it?
Have you seen what kind of bait and switch content is on youtube? It can look like a children's show, but turn out to be something really creepy.
If you think it's the job of parents to curate content, that's also fine, but youtube should allow for a feature that lets you whitelist content.
It sounds like you had lovely parents, though. Congratulations.