AIBU to think parents will break the social media rules for summerborn children’s GCSE revision?

Mother of DC who got A*AA here. DC found videos extremely good for revision.

I would imagine the videos would just be posted to YouTube Kids instead

Put it on the TV?

It’s literally an online version of traditional media age ratings.

If you really want to buy your 9 year old grand theft auto you can, the same obviously applies to this.
What on earth does you not having an iPad have to do with social media not being for under 16s??

@BananaPeels what are you using to post on MN?

Also just to add my children play musical instruments and you tube is essential. It has all the tunes played perfectly which they use to play along to. They also use it to learn new chords and videos which break down songs. Many of the songs they play are learnt from watching you tube.

What can happen is that parents can give limited access to their kids when revising. What this ban will hopefully stop is kids being able to look at it for hours at a time. What it will hopefully lead to, and it might take some time and probably relate to younger children that social media will not consume their lives. Who knows. As schools have found banning phones in school has led to children actually talking to each other, playing games like cards. It is broadening their lives in different ways. Yes some will flout the ban, but hopefully younger generation will see there are other ways to spend some of their leisure time

How? I don’t have an iPad to give them to use it. The whole issue of the ban was supposed to be that in order to use any social media we have to do an Id check. So I’m going to have to do that on their phone logged in as me? In which case they have unfettered access anyway. What am I missing if it is as simple to get around the ban as that?

Parents can clearly let their children use YouTube if they want though. People moaning that their child will miss out educationally because they’re 15 during exam season? I mean come on, some people need to engage their brain a bit here.

It is a brilliant educational resource.

No one is talking about x. The content is on you tube and that is covered by the ban

I'm pleased with the ban. Also, revising on X? REALLY?

How? Pretty much thing is on you tube? Unless, as people seem to saying, this isn’t actually a ban in any way as kids can just ignore it.

And that’s why it won’t work. If you can’t keep your kids off SM now, you will probably delight in giving them access after the ban starts.

I think the social media ban is great but any chance it can apply somehow to those in year 10 below (ie must be 15 on 31 August 2026). Just feels divisive given how much educational stuff is on social media and there will some on Snapchat etc and others not, all in the same year.

Are there really this many dense people in the uk?
Your teen will be able to use revision resources online. FGS!

Some of the best maths and science content is on YouTube. Teachers explaining concepts in simple straightforward ways. Most importantly, they may be explaining it using a different method than the classroom teacher and that might be the explanation that clicks for the student.

@ToffeeCrabApple I'd say school refusal and poor MH in the ND community is because of a lack of appropriate teaching, environment etc.

What a load of old rubbish.
You have no idea what the kids are doing when no looking at a maths video!

No one is going to stop you playing youtube videos for your kid 😂

Not really ground breaking. Those of us who were caring for children during Covid and the taping off of playgrounds didn't make sense, broke the rules, by just climbing over the railings etc. The government doesn't always get things right.

Yes and its been quite bad for their brains.

These young people have terrible rates of screen addiction, school refusal and mental health issues. The fact that they like revising via videos does not make access good for them in the long term.

WhatsApp and signal are apparently not included in the ban.

This is about limiting young people's exposure to constant doomscrolling through addictive short videos, algorithms pushing ever more intense content etc.

Not about stopping 15 year olds watching educational videos or texting mates.

It won't disadvantage kids. The opposite. It will improve their attention spans, mental health and wellbeing.

My 14 year old doesn’t have (or want) Snapchat, Instagram or TikTok.
He does use YouTube to revise to great effect though. The maths videos on there are better than the ones sparx maths uses to explain concepts he doesn’t understand and there are some great science and history videos that he enjoys watching.
I’ve reassured him that he’ll still be able to watch these and if they introduce some sort of age verification I’ll sign in for him.

I think the ban is a good idea in principle but really it should be on the companies to stop it being so addictive and to clean up content