[code_duck]

The impression I get from the article is that parents are helpless but to allow their children to watch TV and YouTube constantly, and thus be exposed to whatever happens to be popular. I guess that is how parenting and life in general works for a lot of people. Personally, I don’t watch any sort of video for entertainment, ever, and I wouldn’t assume that if I had children, they would be watching videos all the time.

One does have the option of finding higher quality video entertainment for children. Another option would be to find them something useful or interesting to do that doesn’t involve being a stationary recipient of an audio-video feed.

[andai]

There's two disturbing aspects to this: one where parenting is replaced with TV, and one where it's impeded by TV — a woman was watching something on her phone, and didn't notice her toddler running onto the road.