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[quote=Anonymous]You don't, unless they want to.    If I run across things that my kids might find interesting, I share them. And they watch if they want to. My space nerd DD and I were watching a Cassini finale video together this afternoon. Because she is a space nerd and has Cassini's death dive marked on her calendar, and not because I GAF about Cassini (although I do now. RIP Cassini.  It's actually kind of sad). If it were a video about hydroponics, I wouldn't even try.

You can force a kid to sit there while the video plays.  But if they don't care about what they are watching, it's pointless. And bigger battles.

So what does you kid care about? There are interesting videos that are semieducational on pretty much everything.  If your kid loves tennis, somewhere there are interesting videos of how to improve your tennis serve that incidentially teach some physics or of the Williams sisters that pull in AA history. Plus, you learn things that you can talk to your kid about.

But also-  can't anything you watch with your kids be a topic of conversation and educational?  You watch The American with them, and it's history (to them).  And about how our relationship with Russia has changed.  Or has it?  And how D.C. has changed since the 80s with gentrification. Even GOT can be an interesting discussion about whether the sex and violence is a good thing. [/quote]

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