In case you wonder where I came up with that crazy metric, it is the approximate height of my little princess. And She loves YouTube even before here second birthday!
Sometimes, as parents we do stuff with our kids, usually to get them off our backs for a while, and it backfires BIG-TIME. This one's a classic example of it.
Here's my story: Whenever I used to open my laptop to check email or to catchup on my feed reader or some other stuff, my kiddo would come running up to me and start banging at random keys on the keyboard. More than once, she has pressed the power button, when I am right in the middle of doing something important. So I thought, let me just show her something interesting and then she can get back to play and I can get back to doing what I am doing.
And that I think was BIG Mistake ;-)
I opened YouTube, and searched for nursery rhymes (never expected so many videos to show up) and showed her one. She was over herself with joy (in fact, that "moment" when my little one squeals with happiness, is what parenting is all about), and then she actually asked for another rhyme that she knows. I searched, found it played it. And then came another......
It has led to a situation where, this laptop is now 'hers' and I get to work on it once in a while, when the rest of the household is asleep (like right now). And she watches her playlist (yes I made her a play list of about 19 odd poems), two times a day, breakfast and dinner time.
You tube sure has a vast resource of fun education. But at the same time, as parents, both my wife and myself are cautious about not letting her watch it more than 3o minutes at a time. Initially we were unable to figure out how to get her OFF it. But now we simply tell her that the poems have gone to sleep, and the little darling happily lets go of the laptop :).
Here's a little video of her antics with the laptop.
If you are not able to see the video, then click here.
Sometimes, as parents we do stuff with our kids, usually to get them off our backs for a while, and it backfires BIG-TIME. This one's a classic example of it.
Here's my story: Whenever I used to open my laptop to check email or to catchup on my feed reader or some other stuff, my kiddo would come running up to me and start banging at random keys on the keyboard. More than once, she has pressed the power button, when I am right in the middle of doing something important. So I thought, let me just show her something interesting and then she can get back to play and I can get back to doing what I am doing.
And that I think was BIG Mistake ;-)
I opened YouTube, and searched for nursery rhymes (never expected so many videos to show up) and showed her one. She was over herself with joy (in fact, that "moment" when my little one squeals with happiness, is what parenting is all about), and then she actually asked for another rhyme that she knows. I searched, found it played it. And then came another......
It has led to a situation where, this laptop is now 'hers' and I get to work on it once in a while, when the rest of the household is asleep (like right now). And she watches her playlist (yes I made her a play list of about 19 odd poems), two times a day, breakfast and dinner time.You tube sure has a vast resource of fun education. But at the same time, as parents, both my wife and myself are cautious about not letting her watch it more than 3o minutes at a time. Initially we were unable to figure out how to get her OFF it. But now we simply tell her that the poems have gone to sleep, and the little darling happily lets go of the laptop :).
Here's a little video of her antics with the laptop.
If you are not able to see the video, then click here.
