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Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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ABC kids Australia launched the Wiggles, Bluey the dog, and has a lot of educational content. On the downside it's geo restricted, may require mad proxy skillz, and could possibly turn your children into leftist socialist communists that want a country with democracy, equality and long term consistent economic returns. https://www.abc.net.au/abckids/

Bluey is on disney+ outside of Australia (although minus the toilet jokes)

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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post #16

CBeebies/CBBC? Not sure what access is like outside the UK.

I'd be a bit careful with that: https://www.wsj.com/articles/peppa-pig-a-pandemic-favorite-h...

It seems rather odd to be upset that a television programme might teach one’s children to enunciate properly?

One is genuinely rather confused as to exactly what it is with which you take umbrage.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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CBeebies/CBBC? Not sure what access is like outside the UK.

Seconded.

Have been really impressed with the CBeebies family of apps.

Also worth a look: Khan Academy Kids, but it doesn’t seem to hold the attention quite as long.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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post #14

ABC kids Australia launched the Wiggles, Bluey the dog, and has a lot of educational content. On the downside it's geo restricted, may require mad proxy skillz, and could possibly turn your children into leftist socialist communists that want a country with democracy, equality and long term consistent economic returns. https://www.abc.net.au/abckids/

ABC Kids is awesome. Such a great service and every single show in there is either educational or ridiculously cute.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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post #11

I just put on YouTube kids and let the algorithm take the wheel. What could go wrong?

If using on google tv, and you have Yt premium, Yt kids still show ads...(when Yt non kids does not show any ads). Plus my daughter found the most annoying whiny crybaby shows in her feed in Yt kids. Yt kids has now been removed from all devices. Regular YouTube with certain subscriptions/playlists are better

> Yt kids still show ads

Isn't that illegal in many areas? In the EU you basically can't target ads towards kids.

That being say: YouTube Kids is generally terrible and there's little reason to prefer it over the regular YouTube.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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post #16

CBeebies/CBBC? Not sure what access is like outside the UK.

I'd be a bit careful with that: https://www.wsj.com/articles/peppa-pig-a-pandemic-favorite-h...

I've noticed that a lot of my daughters friends put on American accents when they're playing; we're in the UK, so presumably they just watch a lot of american tv. I don't think it's particularly alarming though, I wouldn't think to warn someone to 'be careful' of letting their kids watch My Little Pony because they might imitate the accents

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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post #16

CBeebies/CBBC? Not sure what access is like outside the UK.

I'd be a bit careful with that: https://www.wsj.com/articles/peppa-pig-a-pandemic-favorite-h...

That article makes it out to have a positive effect so I'm not sure what you're trying to be careful about. Perhaps you want your child to say "thank you" and "please" less?

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

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dunno.... this might be an unpopular opinion but set up jellyfish/emby/plex at home, download all the stuff your kids "might" watch and let them be. you would be in control of what they can and cannot watch, there wont be any ads, your kids wont be exposed to "stuff" which overall is a nice thing. i remember doing this back in 2015 when i had a bunch of kids at home and internet was scarce. Now, there are no kids in…

That's a great idea. How do you find appropriate and engaging content? I can go back in time to find copies of classics but I'm sure there are attractive modern options as well. This is one of the pluses of PBS, where you could let your kid loose with whatever they're showing and be comfortable with it.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?

#30

Cbeebies is good for a mix of very safe content, mix of education and entertainment stuff. There's some annoying stuff in the schedule (teletubbies, ugh) but most of it is decent enough for square nanny content that doesn't need input from an adult.

And crucially, no adverts
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