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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by jmathai on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:58AM (#35454315)
Agree all kids are different. Our daughter is less affected than our son.

But in both cases, they are happier and more creative (as kids should be) when we remove devices altogether.

I’m not sure what curation you’re talking about. YouTube kids is just ads, for example. It’s not violent, but it’s also not … not ads.

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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by lucumo on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:17AM (#35455666)
YT Kids (the app at least) has a setting where only videos and channels are allowed that are whitelisted by the parent. We used to limit it to stuff from BBC Cbeebies, Numberblocks & Alphablocks, Sesame Street, Disney, and similar stuff in their own language and in English.

I think nowadays we just limit it to the age restrictions (<=4, 5-8, 9-12), so they don't see stuff that gives them nightmares. Everything else can be taken care of with the time limit.

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