[panglott]

YouTube has tons of great videos that are awesome for watching with children. My 8-year-old loves the PBS Digital Studios series like Eons and It's Okay to Be Smart, and Crash Course.

Even I like some of the better nursery rhyme videos in foreign languages, for my target language. I hadn't understood that even the good channels repackage their materials into different compilations for the ad views. But for us YouTube is something that is on the TV in the living room and we can all see and agree on the videos we watch. Still it's hard to filter out the filthy language, weirdness, and pointless cruelty.

The problem the author identified exists in other parts of the kid Internet. With Web-based games, sites are aggregating weird and disturbing games with the OK or just junky ones, and kids are sharing these sites with each other.