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Ask HN: What YouTube channels do you watch with your kids?

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Parents of HN... What do you kids like to watch on YouTube? What do they like to watch that you also like to watch? Looking for a collection of interesting, educational, or just generally entertaining channels that will help me battle the kids toy and gamer influencer channels that they're hooked on.

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#3
Mark Rober has many great and some good science and engineering videos that my kids love:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg

He get's my vote for the current best communicator of science, on par at times with Carl Sagan. This video explains neural nets/machine learning and had my kids riveted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmlRbfSavbI

We've gone down some deep lego rabbit holes, such as the great ball contraption:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmwskpxyCg

These are pretty light but entertaining:

https://www.youtube.com/@howridiculous

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGzXtNdhjPxvCNWFme1bG0g

The latter is a guy that builds fresh water aquariums. The fact that he can do this full time for a living (via YouTube) is one of the most amazing and unlikely results of the internet (IMO).

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#5
My son is 2 years old. This is what I watch with him.

Ms. Rachel: https://www.youtube.com/@msrachel Curious George: https://www.youtube.com/@CuriousGeorge

And yes I do watch along with him. There is a sort of learning experience for me too. Because I teach spreadsheets I want to get better at teaching.

So I look for and watch educational videos about speaking/talking/Writing.

Simple things so I can see what it's like for an absolute beginner. And how the learning process takes shape over many different days and weeks.

But also Curious George show is a lot of fun.

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#6
I’ll be honest, not much different than adults.

I usually just find videos that interest me and share them with them. We watch them together. Lately it has been coral reefs and free diving. This sparks their interests. My kids will search for these topics too and get information and share with me. If it’s something weird or misinformation we can chat about it and talk about how everything online isn’t true

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post #5

My son is 2 years old. This is what I watch with him. Ms. Rachel: https://www.youtube.com/@msrachel Curious George: https://www.youtube.com/@CuriousGeorge And yes I do watch along with him. There is a sort of learning experience for me too. Because I teach spreadsheets I want to get better at teaching. So I look for and watch educational videos about speaking/talking/Writing. Simple things so I can see what it's like…

My son is also two. Approved channels are:

Curious George, Ms. Rachel, Catie’s classroom, Mooseclumps, Monica Sutton, Bedtime Story Co, PBS kids, StoryTime PlayTime, Blippi, Blippi buddies: Meekah, Nat Geo kids, Free School

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