I know some of you have found good videos for your kids to watch on YouTube. What are your favorites? How do you choose? My priorities are for the videos to be educational in some way, and for the content to be slower (not flashing through 2 screens a second, like movie previews).
Children’s Videos on YouTube
simply serina 
I never “search” for videos on YouTube, or at least almost never. I am referred to them from various sources, blogs, facebook, etc. One family we know only allows their family to watch videos on YouTube that they have been explicitly sent links to, and never click on the related videos once the video is finished.
Seeing the homepage of youtube is enough to make me never go there.
I do occasionally click around after watching a video, but occasionally the thumbnails of “related” content are things I don’t want to see. It’d be nice if there was a way to take any youtube video and have it show on a screen with nothing else on it, including the comments (which are often horrible as well).
Jonathan had a question about bugs or something one time, and I did search around to find some videos for us to watch, but I didn’t let him watch while I surfed.
that’s what i want to avoid, jon. mind numbing surfing of youtube, weeding through the junk, while looking for stuff for my daughter to watch. it’s hard for me to find time to search while she’s not peeking over my shoulder, too.
Whenever I find videos I think are worth posting on my blog I cringe a bit because while it can be played without seeing the comments, anyone who clicks through to YouTube itself may be exposed to some really trashy comments. I have found a lot of good stuff through the related sites, though.
As for YouTube itself, as long as I can ignore the trash, I find it very helpful. For one thing, that’s where I learned to make great soft pretzels. 🙂 Recently I bought some video editing software with a steep learning curve, and was getting quite frustrated trying to do something that I thought was very basic, but for which their manual and even their tutorials were no help. Even my first line of defense in such situations, a Google search, helped with lots of problems I wasn’t having, but not with the one I was. Then I thought to try YouTube, and bingo! Just what I needed in the first hit.