Does Your Baby Like Watching YouTube? As Parents, You Must Do These Things

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YOGYAKARTA - Since it was first launched in 2005, YouTube has become one of the giant platforms. Users can use it for various needs. Starting from streaming, watching music videos, movie trailers, getting news or gossip, and much more.

Because of the variety of content that YouTube has to offer, the platform founded by the trio of Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, is the second most visited site in the world. Under Google, and successfully beat Facebook.

In 2020 alone, more than 100 billion hours of video were streamed by users on the YouTube platform. Content with a total duration of 500 hours is uploaded every minute. And more than billions of hours of video are watched every day.

With such a large scale, it is natural to make children – even toddlers – feel comfortable consuming the content that YouTube has to offer. Unfortunately, as is well known, not all YouTube content is suitable for children to watch.

Luckily, there are several things parents can do to help their children explore this platform safely. For more details, see the descriptions that have been summarized by VOI team from the following sources.

Prioritize Discussion

The first and best step you can take is to accompany your child while exploring content on YouTube. Also, don't be afraid to talk about the types of content your child likes.

Also, know what kind of content and whose creation is being shared. In fact, if your child's comments have been replied to by other netizens, you also need to know.

Then, when your baby wants to taste more interactive features, you can give understanding. As we know, Google only allows children aged at least 13 years to have an account. As for children aged 13 to 17 years, they are allowed to create an account but with parental permission.

Take Advantage of Parental Control Features

Google also understands that a child's digital activities can lead to dangerous territory that can lead them to know something that should not be known. Or meet people who have bad intentions.

Therefore, Google has added a number of Parental Control features. The features available in the Family Link service allow parents to manage and supervise their children via digital platforms.

What children open, watch, and the information they are looking for can be found easily. Also, in Family Link, Google has also added a content restriction feature. By activating this feature, the content displayed on a child's device is also age-appropriate.