We also have a paid Youtube subscription and the Youtube kids Ipad application. And these options that you mentioned does not exist, in any other country than US I guess, are you in US?

Plus other things that I mentioned like that "you can not filter or sort or limit based on your subscriptions" is still the same I guess.

Yep I am in the US. The "whitelisting" option wasn't exactly easy to find. You have to login to the kids app as an adult, setup a special kid profile, activate that profile, THEN whitelist.

I remember getting pretty frustrated at how complicated it was, but I eventually got it.

Thanks for this! I didn’t even know it existed. I’ve been frustrated that I can’t add my kids to YT premium since their emails are at my custom domain hosted by g-suite. This feature is worth the hassle of setting up gmail accounts and figuring out whitelisting. They have just been sticking to “approved” channels on the honor system which works pretty well, but it’s not perfect.

you've the right to be frustrated, as it's also shame that they made it complicated and this hard to find for the US version of the app.

Same here. We are pretty liberal with our child and YouTube yet keep tabs on what he watches. We use YouTube kids and the restrictions on normal paid YouTube and haven't had a problem yet.

edit: I see, we're in the U.S.