Kideo Bumper

As a seasoned web designer and creative directoand as a parent of two young boys under the age of 2, I try to keep my family engaged with what is happening online, including interacting with, sharing and viewing of safe content. Having sat down to try and find this safe content with my boys a couple of times now, I can tell you it is not easy to locate. If you search long enough for YouTube content that is appropriate, it always returns search results with wonderful gems to share, but, they are usually sitting right next to something questionable - if not - down right offensive.

I was amazed to see how little has been done to help curate they sea of online video content in a way that makes it easy, interesting, and fun for parents and kids to experience together. Online video and simple interactivity can be a great source of entertainment and learning for the whole family. Someone just needs to care enough to make it so.

It is my goal to source, identify and curate the safest, most educational (and most FUN) YouTube videos and serve them up in an creative and interactive little "web" package that I can share with my boys. I call this package "KideoPlayer."

And since I'm doing this online (and the web is as social as social can be) you get the benefit of all my hard work. Yay!

As parents, it is up to us to be informed about what and how our children play and to make appropriate choices on their behalf. Fortunately, there are many tools and resources that we as parents can utilize to be better parents in the information age. Perhaps someday, this will be one of them.

In the meantime, enjoy! Oh, and slap the spacebar for the next clip!

Love,

Tom and your friends at POKE

Category:

Entertainment

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• kids
• video
• family entertainment
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• baby
• learning video
• phonics
• sign language
• creativity
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• children
• play
• kideo
• kideoplayer
• kideovision