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Curiosity Stream might be worth a look. I have a 6 year old, and her youtube history isn't what I'd hoped. I have to look through things with her though. Space stuff, dinosaurs and animals help. It still loses her attention though.

Reading to her is much better. That one on one attention is a drug.

And "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" kicks ass. Have the "Princess Bride", "Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nihm" and "Rascal" lined up.

Roblox and Minecraft are great too, if you just want a time sink with a little creativity. Can teach them to build their own game with Roblox. My 6 year old is a little too young yet, didn't go well when I tried. She likes to play though.

Best of luck....

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Be mindful of Roblox

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY

Those videos seemed a bit over-alarming to be honest.

It's about kids spending their bought ingame-currency for ingame things... which is the whole point of buying it. If you don't like it just don't buy the ingame currency for your kids.

And then it's about kids being used as unpaid game developpers because they had fun creating games.

My first kid had a real problem with wanting Robux, it’s all he cared about, I dreaded even hearing the name Roblox and never played with him. 10,000 arguments later and he was over it. He introduced our younger kid and stressed to him that “Robux are a scam” on the first day, and it’s now one of my favorite games to play with him and he started on Roblox Studio a few weeks ago. The older one doesn’t play much anymore but he’ll join us occasionally. it’s sad I missed out on all the fun with him because of the obsession with Robux and my inability to distract him from it. I think if I had just played with him, he might have not have cared so much, but my hate for it from all the fights stopped me from even installing it.

How are they a scam though? If you can buy ingame things that bring you joy it's not wasted money. You just have to set reasonable limits so you don't end up spending 100s on silly things.

Yeah if someone can't handle it in Roblox, they're going to have similar problems almost everywhere.

Good time to learn a lesson.

Scam's not the right word but you start to run out of accurate words when you can't get your point across after having entire days ruined arguing with a screaming kid about a R$10,000 Golden Dominus that would cost $100 USD to obtain.

My kids play Roblox. It has been a great experience for them.

I've seen a lot of critical articles. I find them to describe a completely different experience than we have had.

The fact that it is hard to get attention for your games is just a good life lesson, when the kids grow up and decide to be youtubers they will learn it then too. That's not a bad thing.

Meanwhile they get very creative games for free (more creative / fun than the traditional video games out there), a free development environment to play and learn on.

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