Worried about Kids and You Tube? Four questions parents can ask primary aged children about what they watch online
/UK based research group Child Wise conducted research last year showed that children are watching an average of 3 hours a day watching youtube videos. Most commonly, they are watching music videos, gaming videos, “funny” real life content, videos showing pets and animals, “how to” videos and sport.
This raises the question of how appropriate these videos are for children. It's hard to tell. None of this content is “rated” as G, PG, M etc in the same way that commercially produced television has been in the past. And with more than 300 hours of video being uploaded to youtube every minute, my guess is that external ratings guides like this are going the way of the dinosaur.
This means that as a society and as parents we are going to have to find new ways of monitoring, discussing and - when appropriate - restricting video content for children. Here are four questions for parents and carers to ask children to help start that process.
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