Timeline for My 10 year old daughter watches Youtube shorts all day - what can I do about this?
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| Feb 16 at 4:15 | comment | added | Nelson | AFAIK a 10 year old can't make money to buy a smartphone and get a data plan. It may mean the adults don't get it either, but that is called leading by example. | |
| Dec 14, 2023 at 14:21 | comment | added | Zayde in NY | It might help a little if if you explained the finances of the videos on the web. The video makers are not paid for telling the truth or for producing videos that promote the health and well being of kids. They are making videos to make money. Not everything that makes money for the video makers is healthy for kids to consume. This might help the child evaluate and, hopefully, self censor their viewing. | |
| Dec 3, 2023 at 13:39 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak | Though it's a couple months later, I just wanted to observe that the sense of the below answers depends on understanding that your daughter is not making a choice but being manipulated by psychological reward patterns engineered by brilliant people primarily to make advertising profit. In other words, she's caught in a trap. Hence it's not like saying "My kid bikes all day" or "My kid does nothing but read." If the below answers were applied to that kind of interest they would indeed be draconian, but this case is not like those. She isn't choosing (or is barely doing so at this point). | |
| Nov 29, 2023 at 19:44 | answer | added | Kai Qing | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 5:51 | comment | added | user21820 | You need to read this and start acting responsibly as a parent, as explained by A.bakker and Pastychomper and mikem. | |
| Aug 30, 2023 at 9:16 | answer | added | Pastychomper thanks Monica | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 24, 2023 at 12:44 | comment | added | Nicolas Formichella | It has never been easier for parents, to set up screen time limitation (Screen Time on iOS and Family Link on Android), set a hard/soft limit for Youtube/TikTok... and you have resolved part of the problem | |
| Aug 24, 2023 at 10:53 | answer | added | user44905 | timeline score: -3 | |
| Aug 15, 2023 at 18:59 | comment | added | Tolga Ozses | @Cornman what I meant by "not things you can learn from" is "videos that kill your brain cells". Sorry I should have been clearer or phrased that bit better. | |
| Aug 15, 2023 at 5:40 | answer | added | mikem | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 14, 2023 at 20:20 | comment | added | Cornman | with a professional. | |
| Aug 14, 2023 at 20:20 | comment | added | Cornman | I think that a child should not have a smartphone at that age. Also you seem to have the misconception that a child of 10 years old can learn anything from using the smartphone by watching videos. I am not an expert on this. A german psychologist and neurobiologist hast written two books on that subject. There are some fun and educating videos of him (Prof. Dr. Dr Manfred Spitzer) on youtube. Unfortunatly not with english subtitles. Do not want to give any parenting tips, but in my opinion you should take her smartphone away, and if your daughter shows symptoms of addiction, you should talk .. | |
| Aug 14, 2023 at 12:09 | answer | added | A.bakker | timeline score: 14 | |
| Aug 14, 2023 at 11:17 | history | edited | Tolga Ozses | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2023 at 10:28 | history | asked | Tolga Ozses | CC BY-SA 4.0 |