They watch Minecraft building channels.
Then from your main account, go to a channel, click three dots -> Share with children -> Share. Can do the same with a single video too.
It can be a painful process though. If you want to unshare, you have to find that video and repeat the process. Or unshare it in the youtube kids android app by logging in as a parent first.
Would have been nice if i could share a play list. That way I would only have to modify that play list to add/remove a video.
The main problem is when children get older and YouTube Kids is simply not a good fit anymore (my children refer to it as "Baby Youtube"). The way I remember it, I would consider the content to be applicable for children up to maybe 6 or 7 years? Until that age, I did at least casually monitor what my children watched anyway and didn't just leave them alone with a tablet.
The regular Youtube has a "content setting" for parents with categories like "9+" and "13+", but when I actually tried this, these categories were an absolute joke and still contained a ton of adult content, especially all the influencer gaming grifts, the right-wing "manosphere" bullshit, and so on. It is obvious that some AI does the filtering here, and we all know how well that works.
How do you set up YouTube in a way that only an explicit list of channels can be watched, without the possibility to trivially circumvent this by simply opening a browser and going to youtube.com directly without being logged in?
Freetube allows me to
- set up a list of channels that are OK
- disable the search box
- set up a PIN so that the configuration cannot be changed.
The installed browser is simply using a different filtered DNS and will not be able to connect to youtube.com directly.
This also has the advantage that I don't even need a Google account for anything.
Process is still somewhat ass though. But its better than giving full search and recommendations access.