Kids and YouTube

Last year, UK based research group Child Wise conducted research that showed children are watching YouTube videos for an average of 3 hours a day. 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. None of this content is ‘rated’ in the same way that commercial television programming is. 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. The following link has four questions that parents should ask their children about what they watch online: http://developingminds.net.au/blog/2017/4/13/worried-about-kids-and-you-tube-four-questions-parents-should-ask-primary-aged-children-about-what-they-watch-online.

Ms Annie Williams, College Counsellor