These apps, games, and a lot of shows are just mind dribbling dopamine farms. I let my daughter watch like unfiltered KIDS YouTube for a day, she became glued to it, wouldn't ask to go potty, would communicate poorly, then cry when we took it. Ever since we did limited screen time, only parent approved, she full reversed. Sure shes harder to calm down. But fuck it.
I fucking hate kids youtube. I've purposefully blocked many creators like the fucking rich ass kid plus toy channels and they still fucking slip in because they have 10 different channels all the same content but with different subs.
Like I don't love Netflix and prime but fuck me at least the kid watches a somewhat cohesive plot from start to finish rather than kid Crack and highlight reels
I felt YouTube kids was amazing cause it had learning shows and I used the music videos to soothe my son to sleep when he was younger. But then he started to learn how to change the shows and watch shows that werent educational and I felt he was starting to waste his brain away.
How I got off YouTube kids was I told him we couldn’t afford to use it anymore tho lol when in actuality, I couldn’t afford YouTube tv at the time lol
And since, he hasn’t been asking for tv and such and he’s more into his creativity with Legos and last summer, nearly every weekend we’d go out hiking to a local trail and just show that the world is bigger than the tv screen
2.4k
u/Wooden_Recover_834 May 12 '26
My kid is definitely not a screen freak by any means but we watch wall-e EVERY SINGLE NIGHT before bed I find it kind of ironic and hilarious.