Protect Your Kids: What to do About Dangerous Messages Embedded in YouTube Kids and Other digital Content

I sit here struggling to know how to find the way to express my profound concern for the content our kids are consuming in flood-like fashion every day and night of their lives. I, too, am a mom, and my kids are also consumers of digital content (including, at one point, YouTube Kids). I have seen hundreds of kids across campuses in the US respond to a call of, ‘Have you ever contemplated suicide?” I see the pain on their faces and feel the hurt in their hearts. Though so much of the pain of this generation relates to many other contributors, I am certain that negative and harmful (x-rated, cyberbullying, etc.) digital content is leading our kids to a darker headspace that some have not been able to get out of.

“We are in the midst of an uncontrolled experiment on the next Generation of children”. -Dr. Chrestokes (Seattle Children’s Hospital).

I don’t want my kids to be an experiment, I want them to thrive. We can’t passively sit back and wait for the results of an experiment to come back. Studies have already shown that suicide is up 200% in girls since the beginning of smartphones. I want to get on the offense and change the direction of this derailed train.

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