My 3 years old kid plays games and visits YouTube for kids app on the mobile phone frequently. After some time some effort must be made to remove it from her. It seems like she is addicted to the phone.   Apart from the personal experience, people around me also complain that using phone to play games and watch videos affects kids' mental health.   What are the mental consequences using a mobile phone or tab to teach kids using video games or YouTube videos?
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Somehow, my wife and I have made it through 27 months of virtually no screen time for our daughter.  We thought we were doing what's best for her, but we're starting to fear it's going to come back and bite us.  To elaborate...  My question is spurred by the fact that recently I let her use my phone on a video chat with Grandma and I had it locked completely down so she couldn't do anything.  This was the first time we had tried this, and after the call ended she carried my phone around for a half an hour refusing to part with it.  When I finally insisted on getting it back, it was the ultimate meltdown of her young life.  Both my wife and I were stunned.  It was not her first video chat, but the first chat where she got to hold the device solely herself. She could not manipulate the phone so to speak as all the controls were off, including the touchscreen.  She sees her parents, other adults, and some kids with electronics that she is not allowed to see or hold, though she desperately wants to.  By keeping screens from her so stringently, is she more likely to be obsessed with screen time later?  Would she be better off now if they had been a small part of her daily life from the get go?
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I have been wanting to create a mobile game based on some of my favorite anime.  I want to know if using character images and names from those anime (even after giving full copyright credits and disclaimer) infringes any copyrights?  Would this come under "fair use" in the DMCA (I mean there are already so many not-so-legal sites using this "fair use" to continue running).  What are the possible things I can do for making this game? I have seen many online browser games based on anime which use images and elements from that anime, while I have also seen many games advertise themselves based on a anime but just use diffrent names for characters of that anime (sometimes modifying the character images, too).
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I try and keep an eye on my cell data so I don't use too much. From what I've noticed from my own usage the apps that eat up the most data are the ones that stream music and videos like Pandora and Youtube, so I turned off cell data for these apps. Just yesterday I got a notification from Pandora saying "New music has been added to so-and-so station". I wasn't on wifi and after double checking the cell settings data was still disabled for it.   Whats going on?
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My child just entered third grade, and the homework load is much higher this year, with a lot of writing and math drills. It is all work that she can do easily, but it's causing the whole family a lot of pain, because she's have a really hard time just sitting down and doing it — asking many questions about things she clearly actually knows, and getting distracted by the smallest thing going on around her. (Setting up a special quiet area isn't helping, because the distractions could be her pencil or a sudden burst of word association based on something in the lesson.)  So, a page of writing and a couple of pages of math which could be done in fifteen minutes total is taking an hour and a half. She can easily explain the reasoning behind the math problems, but when it comes to writing down what she just said, it's like pulling teeth. She'll slowly write a word, sounding it out in slow motion as she writes each word. And she'll say that she doesn't understand a question, but when she actually gets her mind pointed at it, she can write a great answer. And she's clearly picking up the concepts in class; I have no doubt that she actually understands, which is part of our frustration.  My wife feels like she's just wanting attention, but I think it's more about our daughter's own ability to focus. We both feel that sitting down and working painfully through each question isn't really helping her. That works, but my wife feels like it's just rewarding the behavior, and I feel like it's not really helping her learn any better focus on her own, which, you know, she'll need in actual life. And, we're happy to spend child with our kid, this pretty much the opposite of quality time.  Neither rewards or consequences seem to have any effect, and nor do charts. All of those things basically just seem to add another layer of complication, distraction, and misery. What else can we do?
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Has a Stack Overflow YouTube channel or a stackoverflow.tv site ever been contemplated, in doing so taking advantage of a medium where the Stack Overflow experience could be expanded and extended beyond reading material and the (nonetheless proven) Q&amp;A format?  EDIT: I'm not talking about  or that  that has the one video, I'm talking full-fledged  style but a lot wider in terms of technologies.  Beyond the (undoubtedly enormous) challenges, there are also enormous potential rewards.  I'm convinced this has, at least at some point, been on the table and would be interested to hear what made it an unsuitable medium to further explore.  To clarify the question, I can easily imagine that:   digging into the audio-visual market would be easy for a site that has already reached a certain standard, status and reputation there are a lot of very smart people on Stack Overflow who are not only celebrated authors but also experienced public speakers who, given the chance / asked / coerced could bring a wide range of topics in their respective fields of expertise to a wide audience this might be a cash cow in terms of ad revenue (I could be way off here, I have no idea how that "world" works...) there could be a standard in terms of audio-video quality and content that I sometimes miss on YouTube ...
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I just had that rare case of a newbie who barges in with off-topic content, it gets closed, and instead of starting to spew invective, politely asks &quot;what are the rules&quot;. Currently, his or her  is on Cooking meta. The question text mentioned a curious thing:  Admittedly I only use the app so maybe that is where I am going wrong but I can't seem to find any rules about what can be asked, what sort of answers are allowed and what format it all has to be in.  The whole network already has a problem with getting new users to accept our high-moderation and strict-rules culture, especially when their expectations are set by general discussion forums which don't restrict themselves to objective non-poll questions. I think that the rules might be even harder for the users of sites outside of the trilogy, because the interested population is not made up of geeks who automatically value the information-content-aspect of information  above the other aspects. Even for users who have easy access to the help center, there is lots of friction to get accustomed to our rules (and many leave in anger instead). So, for the people who are willing to RTFM, I think that we should make the access easy. I admit that I hadn't expected somebody who hasn't used the site to start using the app, but now we have observed it happening. So, I think that it is important to include a link to the help center in an easily accessible place in the app. Even if at the beginning, it cannot be brought into the app format and has to be a link which opens in the mobile browser, it will be useful for the poor confused new users.
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Although I am not a parent, I am interning in social work.  I am currently working with a student in an elementary school who does not speak. The parents have explained that she does speak at home (I also witnessed her speaking to her mother outside of the school), but she has not said a word since she began school in August.  I work with her individually and in a group, and she still refrains from speaking in both settings.  We wonder if the cause is anxiety because she's not speaking at school but she is at home.  Have any of you experienced something similar with your children? What can we do as school staff to create an environment that is more comfortable/less anxiety-inducing for her?
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I'm using YouTube offline feature on my Android device, so that I can playback the offline videos within the YouTube app even there is no internet connection. When I searched for any of the video files, I can't find them on device/SD card memory. Are they encrypting the file so that it can be played only with YouTube app? Does anyone know the specific folder for offline video data?
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Since ads are almost inevitable on official YouTube app on Android device, I was wondering if those can be skipped automatically?  This post is only about those ads which can be skipped, lets ignore ads which can not be skipped.  For example: When YouTube video starts, for some ads, there is an option to "Skip this ad in 5 sec".   Once "Skip ad" label is enabled, we can click on it to move to video. Of course this is all manual, and as a user you need to focus on EXACT timing to HIT the skip button. And it becomes worse if the video is having multiple Ads(few of which will be shown in future time), where when Ad plays, user need to again click manually to skip it.  Can this be AUTOMATED, meaning when there is an Ad which can be "Skipped", then just let the YouTube skip it without user's intervention.   This will be specially useful for those videos which has multiple Ads spanned across the video length and few of them can be skipped.  Looking for a solution on non-rooted device.  Update: It seems like Google is introducing new ad format called .  Bumpers, which are unskippable 6-second shorts placed in front of videos.      So, soon we may not see an ad which can be skipped, forget about   skipping it via automation!
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I have an 18-month-old daughter. She loved having a bath from birth, and now all of a sudden she screams her head off when I mention bath or give her a bath. It's really stressing me out. I don't know what to do.
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I'm trying to figure out how to conduct a usability test upon a handset device (smartphone).  it seems there aren't many methods for screen video capturing of a user making use of an app.  Do you know of such methods? or alternatively how to conduct such usability test?
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It seems everybody and his cat has a smartphone today. (I'm guilty too.) My son will probably demand his own phone somewhere between the age of 7 and 12. I know I can't compare to when I was a kid because the world is completely different today. So how can I decide?     When should kids get their own cellphone? What factors are relevant for the decision? Smartphone, or plain cellphone? Why?
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I was trying to watch some video in YouTube today. I am not able to listen to what they are speaking. But whenever some music come up I am able to hear it. Why is this?  (I am using Firefox if it’s relevant.)
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I am trying to encourage my 5 1/2 year old son to try different activities but he often simply rejects them out of hand before trying them.  Recently I saw a groupon for ten Taekwondo lessons.  He did not participate in the first 3 lessons and said he didn't like it and wanted to stop.  I told him he had to do the 10 lessons because I paid for them.  After another few lessons he started liking it and now loves going to class and is doing well.  So by forcing him to go he found that he actually did like the activity.  I have been less forceful with regard to other activities because I don't want to be an overbearing father.  I bought him a soccer ball, basketball, bicycle, scooter, motorcycle, baseball and glove, ukelele, piano etc.  He says he doesn't want to do them.  Maybe he would like them if he tried them a few more times like his Taekwondo.  I want to expose him to as many things as I can and want him to find his passion (if he has one) but it seems he just doesn't want to try new things.  I see many other boys his age advancing in these activities while he wanders aimlessly.  He is a very active boy who runs a lot and is generally happy and I don't want to squash that demeanor.  I too took a long time to 'find myself' so I don't want to be too forceful but at the same time if I give up too early he might not find something he truly enjoys and might excel at.  I realize this is a somewhat open ended question with possibly no 'correct' answers but I would be happy to hear other parent's perspectives.
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I encounter problems when I play videos downloaded from Youtube. I've downloaded 5 videos. Those videos are added to disk. The downloads were all completed successfully, but when I try to play them, it says     There was a problem while playing. Touch to retry   May I know the reason and how to fix it?
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I did one of the following and can't play PewDiePie's Tuber simulator with the progress linked to my account:   I logged out and can't login I logged out and tried to login in another device I tried to login on a second device without logging out My device broke and I can't login from another one I restarted my device / reinstalled the game and my progress didn't save   And possibly even:   I don't know how to login I forgot my login name and password   How can I fix each of these problems, and can I prevent them somehow?
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My 4-years-old daughter still sucks her thumb while sleeping.  How can help her stopping this habit?  I have tried to give her a pacifier, but she refuses it. She does not have this habit during the day and is also upset in the morning when she sees her nails are flaky and her thumb hurts.