We’ve entered a new age of parenting. As everyone on Nostr knows - if you create scarcity, you create value and desire. I don’t think banning your kids from screens or YouTube is the right strategy (I’m not saying you’re suggesting this).
Personally I take an interest in what my kids are watching and we talk about it openly.
I read a paper many years ago just before I became a parent, it suggested that to keep your kids safe online, it’s important to teach them about risk and expose them to it in the real world. Eg let them climb trees, take them on adventures, and challenge them physically. The theory being that risk management is a learned skill - and what is learned IRL, transfers directly to the digital world. It’s worked so far for us.
There’s some dark shit out there, and I see it as my job to arm my kids to navigate and deal with it. And for a bonus points, do it without breaching your kids privacy and constantly spying on them remotely. We’re inadvertently creating a generation of people where 24/7 surveillance is normalised and accepted.
