Children Should See These Videos
The excess screen time is now largely given. We all do our best to work from home and help our kids complete online learning assignments and connect with their friends and family across all our devices. But even after we do all this, all the hours that were previously consumed by games, sports and other activities remain in the day. At least some of that time is probably now being spent on screens.
It would be great if some of that screen time was less tedious and more educational. But most of us also don’t have the mental capacity to compile such a list ourselves. Of course, the amount of free educational videos and other resources that now exist exceeded “useful” and became “overwhelming” sometime at the end of the First Week of Isolation. However, there is a website that has already done the hard work for us.
We’ve already written about The Child Who Must See It , but this website has never been more in demand or more desirable than it is now. Parent Rion Nakaya launched the site in 2011, and now, with the help of her 12- and 9-year-olds, she adds 10 to 15 new videos every week on topics ranging from science, technology and space to music, art, and more. D. food.
The videos, Nakaya told Offspring , weren’t even necessarily made for kids; While they are appropriate and fun for children, many lack the over-the-top sound effects or oversimplification of topics that can make instructional videos unpleasant to listen to:
As a child, Nakaya recalled how fascinated he was with Jacques Cousteau’s special programs and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s ballet performances on television, programs not especially for children. She watched tons of videos about her work and very often she came across something that left her fascinated, inspired and eager to learn more. The child needs to see this , she thought, adding the clip to her bookmarks. She collected NASA videos, wildlife footage, and old TV scenes that she loved. She once showed her son a video in which Ella Fitzgerald sketted on stage in 1969, and he skated all week. She would like more kids to be able to experience these internet gems, but most parents would never have found them if they hadn’t searched.
For example, this LEGO pizza frame-by-frame animation is wild, it will become your child’s new target in a pandemic:
In order to further improve the already selected ones, here are other fun videos highlighted on the site that I liked and that you and your children may also like:
- The octopus blanket unfolds the spider web
- Why do dogs lick people?
- 2.5-minute galaxy tour
- These ten simple scientific experiments
- World champion whistle
- How to draw a 3D city
- Domino cats
Of course, you can also just give your kids the freedom to navigate the site in the knowledge that all the content has been hand-picked by Nakaya and her kids age-appropriate, quirky, interesting and fun.