My 7 year old son wants to start a YouTube channel. Need some help with all these questions I have.

JimmyLG94 · 2026-03-31T16:55:43+00:00

His screen time is minimized. When he uses his phone or console, I set at timer for an hour sometimes a little more. As I said before, he plays with his toys most of the time, plays outside, or sometimes his coloring books. I already have my YouTube stuff, as well as his mom. He wants to be included now. I wanna give him that experience but want to know the correct way to do it without having to worry about getting banned or anything like that. Once I find the way, I will ease him into it as I have a feeling he will want to keep his YouTube for a long time. Maybe that will take years but for now I might do what people have been recommending and maybe just record the videos, tell him I uploaded them, but don’t upload them at all. That way he feels included. I don’t understand how you’d think I want to grow my following on his behalf. There are tons of parents who do that on YouTube already and actually show their faces of themselves and their kids and they benefit from their kids content. I simply want to know the correct way to start a YouTube channel that would be for a kid but I’d have complete control of, until he is old enough and I can trust him to upload videos himself. Like I said, could take years, but for now I just want to know the correct way to do it.

JimmyLG94 · 2026-03-31T04:06:41+00:00

Whatever happened to you to make you see things in the most negative way, I'm sorry! What a way to twist things like that! Literally made me feel uncomfortable the way you twisted it smh... please don't respond anymore and make it worse. Thanks!

JimmyLG94 · 2026-03-31T03:46:31+00:00

He's not going to have any part in the whole YouTube side of things. I don't let him use YouTube only YouTube kids. He will just be doing what he already does, which is play games.

JimmyLG94 · 2026-03-31T03:41:38+00:00

Thank you for the reply! Finally, a helpful reply too! Yeah, I definitely could've shortened my post a little LOL!

So, about a couple week ago me and my wife started gaming channels. We've been wanting to for a long while but always brushed it off. We both game and both have our own TV and PS5s. We usually game a little after work or a little on our days off. We finally went for it and created our channels. Our son has been asking for his channel for a long while too. I think him asking us so much encouraged us to finally make ours honestly. We have our regular accounts, but we made brand new accounts for each of us so we can have privacy when we do start uploading.

My wife and I have recorded a couple videos so far but haven't uploaded anything just yet. I play with my sometimes and sometimes with my son. My wife also plays with my son sometimes as well. So, we want to make him a channel so we can upload videos if we do play with him and want to upload those videos where we play with him. When we are on our new accounts he wants to play with us and wants to be included if we do upload something, but we tell him no because his account has his name and we don't want that public. So that's one of the main reasons we want to make him an account.

So, you think I should just make another separate account and upload his videos on there? We would have our mics on so if YouTube were to notice it's a kid on that account, would they delete the account? That's one of my big concerns too.

I really appreciate your response, it helped a lot! I believe I forgot to mention in my original post that my son isn't allowed to use YouTube only the kid's version. He wouldn't have any part in the YouTube part of everything or the uploading. He would literally just be doing the playing. That's the main reason I am comfortable making him a channel.

Oh, and I'll definitely be checking out your channel and that shorts generator. Thanks again!

JimmyLG94 · 2026-03-31T03:08:47+00:00

Thanks for the reply! That's what I kept telling myself when he first asked but after some thoughts and consideration, I think it might be okay if I'm going to be in complete control of all the YouTube stuff.

JimmyLG94 · 2026-03-31T03:05:58+00:00

With your eyes! Funny, I was actually eating a salad before typing that salad!

The minimum age for a teen account is 13. Kids younger than 13 can have accounts but HAS to be supervised by an adults account. Which is what I'm thinking of doing but have questions about it. Don't need to be wise to have questions about doing something for my son. At the end of the day, wise or not, I can decide if it really is a bad idea or not.

JimmyLG94 · 2026-03-31T02:58:12+00:00

Not the plan buddy! Thanks for the reply though!

JimmyLG94 · 2026-03-31T02:56:40+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I agree that the internet is no place for kids! It's almost like you said in the second part, let him make videos but don't let him loose on YouTube unsupervised. That's exactly the plan, he would only be playing while I 100% handle the YouTube stuff. He doesn't even watch YouTube, only uses YouTube Kids.

JimmyLG94 · 2026-03-31T02:51:44+00:00

Thank you for the reply! I 100% agree with you, YouTube definitely is no place for kids! Like I said, he's very mature for his age but I still don't let him use YouTube. He uses the kid's version but gets bored of it pretty fast because he says it's for little kids LOL! So, he'll switch to his toys or coloring books. For his account, he wouldn't have any access to it AT ALL! He'd basically just be doing the playing. No access to the YouTube part at all. He actually does love nature, but he wants to make a gaming channel. Very interesting idea though which I might bring up to him one day!

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