This is really helpful, thank you! My 5 and 8 yo are both PDAers, and board games cause huge upset, even as we are a family of board gamers...! Both kids are vvv into their iPads/laptops/TV (they get the first 2 through school funds bc we homeschool in the US). It’s a constant struggle for me and my husband bc it always feels too much! And we struggle with content limitation too: they hate YouTube kids and our TV has regular YouTube that we can’t remove, so it’s been a back and forth on that. The algorithm (and they love scrolling through a feed of videos!) puts more and more teenage stuff in front of their eyes...
We’ve had huge screaming meltdowns about trying to enforce YouTube kids only--we really can’t enforce it, either. How do you do content moderation?
She also plays Roblox and I’ve no idea how to prevent her playing certain games on there, and some of them aren’t suitable either. It makes me said that my 5 yo has working knowledge of stuff far too old for him!
I feel for you on this - I think we were lucky because our daughter didn't really 'find' YouTube when she was that young, she mostly watched DVDs on repeat and used the ipad for more creative games such as Toca World. And she's pretty sensible and restricts herself in terms of what she watched so we haven't needed to limit or restrict access. But it's the way the world has moved on and so many young children now have access to content that parents would rather they didn't :( I can imagine we would have found it difficult too. I guess I'd advice trying to introduce Minecraft as a great gaming experience that lots of children can learn from - I know not all will like it though of course. Maybe there's others that can be suggested - I'll ask on my Facebook page!
Oh yes, she loves Minecraft! It’s actually been through her watching Minecraft videos on YouTube that her feed has become more and more teenage content--lots of scary stuff, weapons, older social dynamics, all from gamer videos 😭 so tricky!
This is really helpful, thank you! My 5 and 8 yo are both PDAers, and board games cause huge upset, even as we are a family of board gamers...! Both kids are vvv into their iPads/laptops/TV (they get the first 2 through school funds bc we homeschool in the US). It’s a constant struggle for me and my husband bc it always feels too much! And we struggle with content limitation too: they hate YouTube kids and our TV has regular YouTube that we can’t remove, so it’s been a back and forth on that. The algorithm (and they love scrolling through a feed of videos!) puts more and more teenage stuff in front of their eyes...
We’ve had huge screaming meltdowns about trying to enforce YouTube kids only--we really can’t enforce it, either. How do you do content moderation?
She also plays Roblox and I’ve no idea how to prevent her playing certain games on there, and some of them aren’t suitable either. It makes me said that my 5 yo has working knowledge of stuff far too old for him!
I feel for you on this - I think we were lucky because our daughter didn't really 'find' YouTube when she was that young, she mostly watched DVDs on repeat and used the ipad for more creative games such as Toca World. And she's pretty sensible and restricts herself in terms of what she watched so we haven't needed to limit or restrict access. But it's the way the world has moved on and so many young children now have access to content that parents would rather they didn't :( I can imagine we would have found it difficult too. I guess I'd advice trying to introduce Minecraft as a great gaming experience that lots of children can learn from - I know not all will like it though of course. Maybe there's others that can be suggested - I'll ask on my Facebook page!
Oh yes, she loves Minecraft! It’s actually been through her watching Minecraft videos on YouTube that her feed has become more and more teenage content--lots of scary stuff, weapons, older social dynamics, all from gamer videos 😭 so tricky!