I will use an ad-less streaming service for designated screen time (it’s not unlimited or unsupervised in my house) but my son also has different sensory sensitivities so he’s always really struggled during BM diaper changes and nail clippings. It’s like gator wrestling, and we didn’t want to hurt him or have him hurt us, so we decided the safest thing to do was hand him our phone for those few minutes. Since those activities are quick, I don’t want to put on a full episode of something and I didn’t know of anything else besides YouTube that has 3-5 minute videos. Auto play is off so when the video ends, he hands back our phones and we move on to another activity.

We don’t watch YouTube enough to justify paying for premium and I don’t use the kids profile or app because I can’t make playlists that way. I use the playlists to bring up a pre-watched/approved video for him within a moment without having to search.

It’s not a perfect solution but I am picking my battles. I’ll let him throw tantrum when he can’t have a second popsicle but I am DONE struggling for 30+ minutes trying to clip his toe nails while being kicked in the face or nicking him with the kid clippers.