Mummy vloggers - are there any safeguards in place to prevent exploitation of their children?

[MB90]

Hi,

I’m wondering about ‘mummy vloggers’. Well, more specifically, wondering about their children.

I’m thinking about one vlogger in particular - I really don’t want to name and potentially shame her because I don’t think she’s a bad person at all - she’s Canadian and is a mum to 3 boys.

I’ve watched her videos for a long while and found a lot of her older content refreshing and helpful. However I’m become increasingly uncomfortable with how much she seems to be exposing her children. Every little bit of their lives is being put on YouTube for the world to see. She has also started featuring them more often in her ‘ads’. Do children need to have any sort of permits to be essentially put to work like this? Are there any safeguards in place for them?

Perhaps I was naïve before but I think the tone of the content of the videos she puts out has definitely changed and it’s all become a lot more contrived and feels a little bit sinister?

What are everyone else’s thoughts on this? Is anyone else concerned?

How do you feel about 'daddy vloggers'?

I haven’t seen any daddy vlogger videos. I’d feel the same way though if the content was much the same.

Lifestyle vloggers, Male of Female, work on selling you the idea of something and that it is attainable, especially with these sponsored products that make life soooo much easier.

I've never been a fan of it, or putting kids online in any capacity. But then I grew up in the good old days of the Internet where anonymity was key.

Is it good for the kids? Only they can answer that, and Im sure some will when they get old enough and pull down the veil to reveal what that kind of life was like for them behind the scenes.