My baby has fallen victim to North Korean propaganda!

[sunnyinthevalley]

I left my 17 month old baby at my mother's home when I went to a afternoon party with DH, and left DD17mo with my tablet, opened on the youtube app.

I come home, and some strange music is playing, and DD is clapping along happily and swaying a bit, and my mother is smiling, swaying along + cooking a casserole.

I peer at what's playing on the tablet, and it's this:

My current guess is that it appeared as a recommended video and DD tapped it (she's good with these things - even laptops!)

DM was singing 'key shown oon' along (she's not really in touch with current affairs/news, had no idea this was a dictator, and thought it was some sort of ad DD had looped.)

Then I was scrolling the BBC on my laptop, with DD beside me, and she sees Kim, and starts smiling and giggling.

I'm not sure if I should be irritated or amused

Unless the OP's infant daughter is fluent in Korean, I doubt she is going to grow up thinking Mr Kim is her 'friendly father' 😂

Still not sure what balonz are!

I think they ripped off the woman dancing round the silver birch trunks from Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music

YouTube kids works well if you take the time to use it properly. It would have blocked out North Korea propaganda for one.

I leave my small child in front of the TV when I knew what they're watching and they don't have the power to change it to something inappropriate. So I might leave them with cbeebies but not BBC News. It's irresponsible to just leave your a baby to click on whatever she wants as she can still end up viewing stuff before you mum gets to her.

Someone once pretended they were considering it as a baby name on the Baby Names board.

Oh yeah I see that now too!

Oh, makes much more sense now, thanks!

What the North Koreans can do with a potato makes puts the Mumsnet Chicken to shame

I’m not really one for over concern on kids watching tele. All mine have done. But a 17 month old who's ‘good with these things - even laptops’ is really fucking sad. She’s a toddler, give her some toys instead.

No child that age needs to be using a phone or tablet or laptop, it fucks up their eyesight for a start, she will be more likely to need glasses. Our optician mentioned that more kids are being prescribed glasses these days due to screens. And there’s also evidence suggesting that the blue light from phones/tablets causes early onset puberty. Just stop using them and she will learn to entertain herself, or if you need her distracted for a short while just use the tv instead.

I'm quite happy it showed her what it did, cause otherwise I wouldn't had a laugh

Ok, I just wanted to mention YouTube kids and that you can control the content because many parents don't seem to know. They come on Mumsnet and complain that their kids have unfettered access to YouTube, and you can actually block all of it including ads if you want. Anyway I'll bow out now. Bye.

'lost count at 30' is pretty much me when someone asks my age

You shouldn’t do that either

I'm not complaining at all

guys guys I get it!! Op thought it would be hil-air-ious to suggest her baby was watching North Korean propaganda for the however many hours she was away. In reality we all know that this doesn’t just appear on YT and also horrified that she thought it was normal for a baby to be on YT for hours.

but op! What! That’s so funny!! Fascist dictator. Lolz

But I do, and I never asked anyone's opinion!

I'm not flipping SuperMum!

*communist dictator

I'm not flipping SuperMum

Stating the obvious.

You seem fun

How has she "fallen victim"? Unlike the actual Koreans, she seems to have benefitted so far, with the smiling and laughing and all. Does your mum have access to RT and Sputnik?

You'd think OP had announced she was packing her bags to emigrate to NK from some of these posts.

I doubt OP's baby and her mum are going to start referring to Kim Jong Un as "Our Great Leader" after listening to this song.

The title is a joke.

And nah, my mum's not a fan of political things. She doesn't even look at the bbc, just the local paper's website.

@Sethera
No you wouldn’t. But how anyone can derive any amusement about the horror people living in North Korea have to deal with is beyond me.