Cocomelon and Paw Patrol are just not allowed in our house. 🤷
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2025
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I would gladly take either over whatever dribble on YouTube captures my kids attention this week.
Our kids only look at YouTube with us on our own devices. They don't have devices they call their own and though I have an iPad I rarely use it.
I have a feeling that once they get the idea that the device is theirs or that they can have control over the device the interest level and attachment changes dramatically.
So I have very little interest in letting them get the idea these devices are theirs to use at all. I also know that once my oldest moves up to kindergarten she's going to be getting a lot more 1 on 1 time with an iPad.
The whole screentime issue has been one of the most challenging things in our household. Bro in the video is right - you can literally just turn on a screen and they finally just shut up and you get some peace and quiet. But obviously relying on that too much will wreak havoc on their behaviour. It's a hard needle to thread, especially since the second you turn off the screen they start driving you crazy again and won't stop talking ad nauseam.
We finally settled on a 2 hour screen time limit on weekends, and a 1 hour educational-only limit during the weekdays. She's old enough now that we have her in extra-curriculars that keep her busy and engaged with other non-screen things. Plus we make sure she's got all the books she could possibly want to read.
Good luck out there 
I don't worry too much about it as long as it's not AI slop or obviously just unsupervised YouTube algorithm
Thinking back on when we were kids, we watched so much more TV. Its funny we have this big screen time debate now but back in the 90s we were putting down 4 or 5 hours a day of TV easy
we were putting down 4 or 5 hours a day of TV easy
That's true. I don't mean to sound like a "back in my day" boomer or whatever, but there's got to be something qualitatively different with interactive tablets, modern video games, and youtube and whatnot though. Kids behave like fucking lunatics when they get too much screen time now. No ability to control their emotions, constant break downs, crying and screaming. I have experienced it firsthand, and limiting my kid's screen time fixed that pretty much instantly.
I don't recall that ever being an issue when I was younger (although I'd have to ask my folks to confirm this)
It's just more addictive now. Even just having content serialized means there's no natural break like there used to be. So you would have the show you wanted to watch, and make sure you caught it, the episode is 30 minutes interrupted constantly by ads, then it changes to something different that maybe you don't like as much
So the content couldn't quite get its hooks into you like it can now. Binge watching wasn't really a thing.
Yeah that is a very good point. Kids these days 
will never understand what it was like to miss an episode of your favourite show and then never, ever being able to see it again for the rest of your life.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: