What Should Your Kids Be Watching?
A guide to the complicated world of childrens movies and television.
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At this point,it seems like theres just no avoiding YouTube as a parent.
In optimal prefs, the platform offers hundreds of thousands of hours of videos to entertain your child.
In less-than-optimal parameters, your child might be watchingPeppa Pigone minute and untold horrors the next.
Below, some best practices on limiting YouTube to the genuinely kid-friendly.
For Regular YouTube:
1.
Turn on Restricted Mode, which hides potentially mature videos.
By doing this, youre also showing YouTubes algorithm the kinds of content you want to be shown.
(Your Premium subscription also removes ads from YouTube Kids.)
(Downloads remain as long as your gear connects to the internet once every 30 days.)
Think of it as the YouTube version of popping in a VHS tape in 1995.
You know exactly what your kids are going to get and how long itll run.
Think of it as curating a video library for your kids.
YouTube offers content tweaks by age bracket, but notes not all videos have been manually reviewed.
Which is code for Were not liable if Momo shows up and terrorizes your 5-year-old son.
you’re able to have up to eight kids per parent account.
Opt to change it to a four-digit code instead.
(And then dont tell your child the code.
Meaning you probably shouldnt just use the one that unlocks your phone.)
