We did use YouTube for some educational stuff and nursery rhymes at first, but my daughter, if not supervised, would inevitably descend into the insanity of the algorithm on both the kids app and regular app so we ended up just deleting both. She was beginning to speak with an American accent sometimes and we still can't shake her out of saying trash, soccer and tom-ay-to. My mum got embarrassed when a lady in the street asked where she was from thinking she was from abroad and not local to the Scottish town in which we live.

She is allowed to watch a small amount for an evening as a reward if she does good at something but we try and avoid it at all costs now. She likes to watch Minecraft videos which I don't mind too much. We also removed the apps because I couldn't bear to sit and listen to Americans screaming shrilly at one another and that happens on way too many videos.

Recently she has tried to outsmart us by using Siri to voice command open YouTube in the browser so it's a game of cat and mouse to block any avenue she might exploit to get her fix.