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.
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:
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).
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
Bluey. I know it was big last year, and I didn’t catch onto it then, but it is a delightful show and there are lots of clips & episodes on YouTube that are very easy to sit down with.
Also Brio wood trains, which my kid loves - there are lots on YT - just some hand driving a train around a track.
We have a Slack channel with like 200+ founders who are parents in it. I just did a quick search and here are two of the channels they recommend in there:
Him and I like to bike together. In general, given a sport they're into, there's probably an entertaining goofball doing interesting things with it on youtube.
Current favorites are Geo History and History Scope. Although we've almost exhausted both.
Lately he's been on a kick about camping, so lots of videos on how to build and maintain fires, survival shelters, how to manufacture tents(in a factory), etc.
Last night was on the design and construction of the Abrahms and the Blackhawk pavelow.
Tonight will be videos on CFCs and how they combine with Ozone, since he's been asking questions about that. (And I have no idea what the end molecules are, so I guess we'll both find out tonight).
Highly curated YouTube to strictly educational content is all he is allowed on YouTube. His attitude during/after watching game streamers resulted in a ban about two years ago. We give him an experimental day where he can watch streamers every six months or so, always regret it when we do.
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).