to tell them Youtube is broken

[fruitstick]

I usually love to let my children do what they want in the holidays.

They are 10 and 7

This year, they are doing sports camps while I'm working (9 to 4 everyday) which is more or less a school day.

Every other spare minute they want to watch chuffing Youtube videos of some numpties playing video games. I would prefer them to play the chuffing things.

They don't want to do anything else. No playing, no reading, no cooking, no drawing, no boardgames ... NOTHING

If I turn it of DS1 immediately moans he's bored.

I wouldn't mind if they were watching a film or something but its just so mindless I'm concerned it's actually rotting their brains.

We are about to go camping for a fortnight and they will have no Wifi.

Should I just leave them to it or insist they do something else.

[BrieAndChilli]

To be fair I had been moaning for days about how I really needed to get on and clean the house so he was doing me a favour, I do tend to waste hours on mumsnet!!

[fruitstick]

Brie your husband is an evil genius.

[HoneyDragon]

Go out and catch Pokemon with them.

[BrieAndChilli]

You can block individual websites as DH once blocked mumsnet and when I tried to go to the site it came up with a message saying 'stop wasting time on mumsnet and clean the house!!'

[GreaseIsNotTheWord]

Is it bloody Stampy? I fucking hate that man.

Mine are 6 and 8 and love watching YT videos of others playing games too. Mental. They have a strict time limit though, or else they'd be happy to sit watching for hours.

[paxillin]

Well done. Tonight will be cold turkey mayhem.

[fruitstick]

I've put my foot down. (Gently).

YouTube only allowed on the morning before sports club (8:50).

When they come home they're allowed to play on Xbox if they want but no Squid and Stampy

[maninawomansworld01]

I don't think a 10 or even a 7 year old would fall for 'YouTube is broken'c

Personally I'd go with ' you've had enough time on the tech now go and play outside or something' while taking the tech off them and putting it away in a high shelf.

Take charge for gods sake you're the boss in your own home. You,don't have to trick them or negotiate with them, they're children!

[GloGirl]

Did you know that when the Olympics starts CBeebies is going to turn off for the whole Olympics because it's so special?

Amazing isn't it

My son is 3 and stupid so that should work fine for me!

I suggest you block you tube as suggested above. A change is as good as a rest they say. Even if just for a couple of weeks

[EveOnline2016]

Only a week in the summer holidays and already sick of cookie world z and blind bag opening.

[FearsomeNasalHairs]

I just snorted and spat tea all over my phone reading that!

[Farfromtheusual]

Can you no just disconnect the wifi for a couple of hours and say there's a fault. My parents used to do it to me back in the day when you didn't get 1000000GB of internet as standard lol

[tattoosandteadresses]

I never knew you could block youtube. I might do that. I have one obsessed with watching other people play video games and one with people opening up toys and making lipglosses.

[paxillin]

you can usually log into your account with your network provider and block certain webpages. We used to stop skype at night so the 15yo didn't wake up from his friends' moping about being awake..

[bumsexatthebingo]

Why not just tell them that they're on it too much and the Ipads/phones/laptops whatever are going away for now. Boredom is good for kids - forces them to use their imaginations.

[fruitstick]

Mwah ha ha ha haaaaa

[JinRamen]

Log into the router and block it there :)

[fruitstick]

They watch YouTube via the Xbox.

They'd clock if i uninstalled it.

[JinRamen]

Just block YouTube on the browser/s. My ds was convinced YouTube has gone down (as the rest of the Internet worked) and he was happy for it to wait to fix itself. Until he discovered it worked on the other browsers! Don't make the same mistake as me! 😂

[GrimmauldPlace]

I get the joy of seeing DanTDM in the flesh on Saturday and have paid for the privilege. I wonder if his laugh is as annoying IRL

[BankWadger]

(I'm imagining that in real life Squid, Stampy and DanTDM (or whatever his name is) are all out playing Pokemon Go and blinking in the sunlight,*

I've already been subjected to DanTeDiuM playing Pokemon go on YouTube. I bought the firestick for ME damn it, not my children.

[paxillin]

10 year old is bored? Bored gets a job in this house. The room needs tidying, he didn't do so well last year with his times tables, could he pop to the shops for some milk, stack the dishwasher and hang out the towels, please? Watch him rediscover his Lego immediately.

[BeautyGoesToBenidorm]

DH watched an action figure being unboxed on YouTube the other day. Do I win?

[MovingOnUpMovingOnOut]

Be careful if you allow them to make their own videos. We had the mummy getting out of the shower horror film and the documentary This is my sister's bum hole

We have withdrawn the camera and deleted any videos that would have us arrested if they made their way onto the web...

[MovingOnUpMovingOnOut]

I have no idea. He has a beard I think?

I'm hoping the volume of videos will slow down soon. I'm imagining that in real life Squid, Stampy and DanTDM (or whatever his name is) are all out playing Pokemon Go and blinking in the sunlight, their pale bodies unaccustomed to sunlight and they recoil at the sight of actual live, human women as other than their mums they rarely meet them.

We might be lucky and they get lost :)