While I’m not particularly happy about the change it’s not password sharing being banned that will eventually get me off Netflix. For now what keeps the sub going is their good and varied kids show selection with a lot of edutainment. Something I feel the others desperately lack. And any parent who has ever tried sailing the seas instead of paying knows how much of a pain in the ass it is to find good kids content and enough of it to guarantee you have something available when it’s desperately needed to make the day work. Especially when your mother tongue isn’t English. And YouTube is mind cancer for kids in my firm opinion; if you don’t sit and watch with your kids which defeats the purpose of screens as a tool for when you need to cook, clean and work.
The people who shared our sub were mostly family that when we started sharing were students without the means to reasonably pay for it themselves but now they have jobs and some even kids so our family has gone from 1 sub to 3 that I know of.
that’s awesome mate, I will be saving this for later for sure.
Clicked through and saw the Thomas show- absolutely loved that one as a kid. Will say, the narrator that replaced Ringo, Carlin, and Baldwin has one of the most irritating voices I have ever heard. It’s still soothing, but annoying in a weird way that I don’t know how to describe
i totally agree that YouTube is mind cancer for kids.
it is like cigarettes it’s damaging to the brain and kids should not consume it until they are older and even then one shall not consume it at all from the start for his own good
Same here. My children, mainly my daughter, use Netflix MUCH more than my wife and I. So the “just pirate the stuff” doesn´t really apply. If I want to see a specific movie or series, sure. But my kids don´t even watch with the intention of finishing a series or whatever. They browse and watch what catches their eye. That can´t be easily done with pirated stuff. And for me and my wife, it´s kinda similar. We don´t have the time or interrest to watch that many movies. Most of the time, we have like an hour to spare, we plop down on the couch, browse through what new cooking or duocumentaries there are and just watch something.
Now, at the moment, we still use a friends account. Seems like the “Kids” profile still works and on mobile everything still works fine. But as soon as that´s over, I can´t promise that I won´t have to get my own account…as much as it saddens me.
I’m on the same boat but worse. I only let my kids watch shows in Spanish. Its impossible to find Latin American Spanish kids shows on the seven seas so I’m stuck with Netflix because they actually have good translations.
Sure for just the content aspect absolutely. But it won’t help them be up to date on the current Pokemon season etc. which will make it harder to be part of the schoolyard small talk.
why don’t you just teach your kids to be pretentious hipsters from a young age and let them look down upon other kids for being part of the mainstream?
TV? Like IPTV you mean? Haven’t had regular TV since moving out two decades ago. I could but naturally my kids have all already experienced the “select what you want to watch” era already so putting that genie back is just unnecessary conflict and borderline cruel. And IPTV services also cost money unless you go the free piracy route but then reliability goes out the window in my experience.
Of course they do that as well, but a day is long and I live far out in the woods, nearest friend is at least 5 min by car and they’re too young to bike there alone.
Plus what do you think kids these days talk about with their friend? Hell even I that grew up with cable TV spent most time with my friends talking about and playing out our favorite shows. At that age.
Wdym the nearest friend is far, the bugs on the trees are literally right there! They’re friends too.
Tho good point on the last part. Indeed even as a kid if we weren’t strategizing about how to best drown some ants we were talking about Dragonball Z or Gormiti.
I’m in the same boat. I pay for a couple streaming services just because they have the shows my kid enjoys. It’s so hard to find good sources for kid’s shows that are actually quality and not either ancient or abandoned. Even popular/new shows can be hard to find, whereas every throwaway netflix original has seasons available from multiple different release groups.
Kid’s shows are really the weakspot of piracy for me. Thrift store DVDs help a lot, but it’s always older stuff and never whole seasons of shows.
While I’m not particularly happy about the change it’s not password sharing being banned that will eventually get me off Netflix. For now what keeps the sub going is their good and varied kids show selection with a lot of edutainment. Something I feel the others desperately lack. And any parent who has ever tried sailing the seas instead of paying knows how much of a pain in the ass it is to find good kids content and enough of it to guarantee you have something available when it’s desperately needed to make the day work. Especially when your mother tongue isn’t English. And YouTube is mind cancer for kids in my firm opinion; if you don’t sit and watch with your kids which defeats the purpose of screens as a tool for when you need to cook, clean and work.
The people who shared our sub were mostly family that when we started sharing were students without the means to reasonably pay for it themselves but now they have jobs and some even kids so our family has gone from 1 sub to 3 that I know of.
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that’s awesome mate, I will be saving this for later for sure.
Clicked through and saw the Thomas show- absolutely loved that one as a kid. Will say, the narrator that replaced Ringo, Carlin, and Baldwin has one of the most irritating voices I have ever heard. It’s still soothing, but annoying in a weird way that I don’t know how to describe
i totally agree that YouTube is mind cancer for kids. it is like cigarettes it’s damaging to the brain and kids should not consume it until they are older and even then one shall not consume it at all from the start for his own good
Same here. My children, mainly my daughter, use Netflix MUCH more than my wife and I. So the “just pirate the stuff” doesn´t really apply. If I want to see a specific movie or series, sure. But my kids don´t even watch with the intention of finishing a series or whatever. They browse and watch what catches their eye. That can´t be easily done with pirated stuff. And for me and my wife, it´s kinda similar. We don´t have the time or interrest to watch that many movies. Most of the time, we have like an hour to spare, we plop down on the couch, browse through what new cooking or duocumentaries there are and just watch something.
Now, at the moment, we still use a friends account. Seems like the “Kids” profile still works and on mobile everything still works fine. But as soon as that´s over, I can´t promise that I won´t have to get my own account…as much as it saddens me.
I’m on the same boat but worse. I only let my kids watch shows in Spanish. Its impossible to find Latin American Spanish kids shows on the seven seas so I’m stuck with Netflix because they actually have good translations.
why don’t you teach them english? Legit question. I went through the same thing when I was a child and eventually learn english by the age of ~7/8
I live in an English speaking country. Spanish is the foreign language for them. Spanish at home is part of the effoet for them to be bilingual.
Second-hand and charity shop DVDs are your friends here
Sure for just the content aspect absolutely. But it won’t help them be up to date on the current Pokemon season etc. which will make it harder to be part of the schoolyard small talk.
why don’t you just teach your kids to be pretentious hipsters from a young age and let them look down upon other kids for being part of the mainstream?
Finally someone proposing a real solution! I’ll get right on that, the world desperately needs more pretentious hipsters!
Why not put some kids cartoon channels on the TV?
TV? Like IPTV you mean? Haven’t had regular TV since moving out two decades ago. I could but naturally my kids have all already experienced the “select what you want to watch” era already so putting that genie back is just unnecessary conflict and borderline cruel. And IPTV services also cost money unless you go the free piracy route but then reliability goes out the window in my experience.
I’d just let my kids play with bugs/friends outside then tbh over paying for netflix
Of course they do that as well, but a day is long and I live far out in the woods, nearest friend is at least 5 min by car and they’re too young to bike there alone.
Plus what do you think kids these days talk about with their friend? Hell even I that grew up with cable TV spent most time with my friends talking about and playing out our favorite shows. At that age.
Wdym the nearest friend is far, the bugs on the trees are literally right there! They’re friends too.
Tho good point on the last part. Indeed even as a kid if we weren’t strategizing about how to best drown some ants we were talking about Dragonball Z or Gormiti.
On TV? What TV? Cable TV? Where do you think you are lol
I’m in the same boat. I pay for a couple streaming services just because they have the shows my kid enjoys. It’s so hard to find good sources for kid’s shows that are actually quality and not either ancient or abandoned. Even popular/new shows can be hard to find, whereas every throwaway netflix original has seasons available from multiple different release groups.
Kid’s shows are really the weakspot of piracy for me. Thrift store DVDs help a lot, but it’s always older stuff and never whole seasons of shows.