Screen time on a sick day: quiet watching on the sofa
A poorly child on the sofa watches more than usual, and that's fine. How to keep the day calm: what to put on, how much, and when the screen goes off.
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YouTube Kids alternatives: what exists, and which problem each one solves
There is no single best. There is a best for your problem — ad-free, a time limit, approving every channel yourself, or something that just works in a browser. Compared honestly, including where we are not it.
Read moreHow much screen time should a child have? The Dutch 2025 guideline
No screen under two, half an hour to four, an hour to eight. The numbers in full — and the part of the guidance that is not a number.
Read moreIs YouTube safe for children?
Not on its own. It depends how a child gets there and what happens next — what goes wrong, what YouTube Kids does and does not fix, and what we do differently.
Read moreWhy the next episode starts by itself
Yes, KidsTube plays on. What it does and does not do, why we built it that way, and the thing that is missing: a button that makes it stop.
Read moreWatching together, and why every guideline lands on it
The advice that recurs most and gets followed least. What it is actually worth, why it matters so much for young children, and when you can skip it.
Read moreWhat to put on for a two-year-old
A two-year-old does not follow a story. Repetition, a slow pace and pictures that explain themselves are what works — here is what we hold that is built that way.
Read moreWhat to put on for a three-year-old
Three is when a story starts to land — and when the same episode gets asked for twenty days running. That repetition is the point, not a rut.
Read moreWhat to put on for a four-year-old
Four is when the question arrives — did that really happen? — and when the gap between exciting and frightening starts to matter.
Read moreWhat to put on for a five- or six-year-old
Around five a child wants what the class is watching. Here is what we hold for that age — and where a curated site honestly starts to run out.
Read moreChristmas videos for kids, and where they actually are
Close to forty Christmas episodes and songs, sitting inside the shows your child already watches rather than in a section of their own.
Read moreScreen time when the evenings draw in
Darker evenings mean more screen time. How to give it a fixed place in an autumn evening, with shows that actually end.
Read moreABCkidTV: alphabet songs and nursery rhymes from the channel that became Cocomelon
ABCkidTV, the channel that became Cocomelon: its alphabet songs, phonics, Finger Family and nursery rhymes on KidsTube, and what parents should know.
Read moreThe best YouTube channels and shows for kids in 2026
Eleven channels and shows already checked and on KidsTube — what each is good for, the age it suits, and where the honest caveats are.
Read moreThe Bucket List Family: travel and wildlife for older children
A family travel channel with real snorkelling, safaris and wildlife — and the caveats worth knowing before you put it on.
Read moreRyan's World: what parents should know
The biggest children's channel we carry, and the most commercial. What is actually in our selection, and how to watch it well.
Read moreKids Diana Show: pretend play, in a lot of languages
One of the most-watched children's channels in the world. What our selection contains — including the many episodes that are not in English.
Read moreHooplaKidz: nursery rhymes for babies and toddlers
Classic nursery rhymes sung straight through, with nothing to follow and nothing to startle. Good from about one.
Read moreChuChu TV: nursery rhymes with the words on screen
A dozen animated nursery rhymes with the lyrics on screen — the ones children sing along to most on KidsTube.
Read moreNijntje (Miffy): the calmest thing we carry
A hundred episodes of Dick Bruna's rabbit — short, quiet, and almost free of incident. Our largest collection of any single show.
Read moreBuurman en Buurman (Pat & Mat): funny in any language
Ninety-five episodes of Czech stop-motion about two handymen making things steadily worse. Almost wordless, so the language never matters.
Read moreBob de Bouwer (Bob the Builder): how things get made
Eighty Dutch episodes about finishing the job, for three- to five-year-olds who want to know how things are built.
Read morePJ Masks: superheroes at bedtime, for four to six
Seventy-four Dutch Disney Channel episodes. Faster and louder than most of our catalogue, with a villain an episode.
Read morePeppa Big (Peppa Pig): five minutes at a time
Sixty-two Dutch episodes of small domestic disasters, and one of the few shows a child will watch one of and then stop.
Read moreSesamstraat (Sesame Street): still the benchmark
Forty Dutch episodes with Pino, Tommie, Ieniemienie and Bert & Ernie — children's television made with researchers in the room.
Read moreA kid-friendly alternative to YouTube launches its new website
Children end up on YouTube for entertainment and learning — and see plenty that isn't meant for them. Here's why we built something narrower.
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