Wish this worked with regular Youtube and a child account. Youtube kids literally cuts-off access to 99% of the legit educational content on Youtube. Most of what remains accessible is near-Caillou-level garbage, which is honestly the stuff I wish I could keep my youngest away from the most.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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Oh I agree. I wish it was just a standard youtube feature. My kids are young enough still that the educational content on youtube kids is engaging for them, though
This has been my issue trying to get bilingual channels registered, for some reason a lot of channels for one country aren't allowed in YouTube kids in another.
It really is bad, I agree completely! The few good things are usually available elsewhere anyway.
I knew this and let my child have YT kids for a while with only content I allowed, but even with that... I noticed a real difference in her behaviour when she had more use of it than ABC Kids. There's something about the way it is designed that is problematic to young brains. Maybe it's the same for adults using regular YT though!!
I got rid of YT kids after she had a rare meltdown, and I think she is much happier overall. If I want any content from YT for her that I think is ok, I use YTDLnis and store a local copy - that's better anyway as it's there even if the internet isn't available.
We definitely still need to be careful about the overall time and stuff they spend online. I'm just annoyed at all the videos and posts and comments I keep coming across on various sites that say letting your kids use youtube kids at all is dangerous because they'll find inappropriate videos.
Absolutely!
The whitelist didn't work how I wanted on the pixel tablet, as in it ignored it. On the Chromecast, it works great though. I'm so glad that tablet died.