[Grandpa's Grumbles] I just can't help but nag!
Congratulations on the 7th anniversary of Note. This is my 21st day of learning as a beginner.
My granddaughter has become a third grader in elementary school.
When I was in the third grade, I was obsessed with anime on TV."Star of the Giants," "Tiger Mask," "Secret Akko-chan," "Hakushon Daimaoh"...
When my granddaughter was two, I bought a tablet and showed her YouTube, and she showed a lot of interest. What did I show her? It was the anime I watched when I was a kid. Because I didn't know what was popular these days.
The first thing my granddaughter really got into was "Sally the Witch" and that was that. Maybe the song was easy to remember, because "Sally, Sally, Sally-chan" was fine, but no matter what else I showed her, she didn't really take to Showa-era anime. "Ambassador Magma" was out of the question; she wouldn't even give it the time of day.
Eventually, when I arrived at Keropons' "Ebi Kani Ex", seeing her dance with all her might made me think, "Yes! I've found something amazing," and I relied on Keropons for a while.
By the time she was three, she was already using the tablet on her own. She was looking for YouTube channels she liked. Of course, she couldn't search by keyword, so there were times when she needed me, saying, "Grandpa, write 'Kou-kun Nemi-chan'," but even without relying on me, her channel subscriptions kept increasing from the recommended video candidates.her channel subscriptions kept increasing.
As a doting, foolish grandpa, I thought, "This child might be a genius. Even at this age, she's scrolling with her finger to find YouTube channels she likes." But when I think about it, it's probably the tablet's usability, which even a three-year-old can operate intuitively, and YouTube itself that are amazing.
My YouTube channel subscriptions are filled with a huge number of children's channels. I'm sure everyone with elementary school-aged children knows popular channels like "Kou-kun Nemi-chan Kids Line" and "Princess Hime TV," but the other day, I organized my subscriptions and deleted the channels my granddaughter had subscribed to.
With Korean characters and English, the variety of content my granddaughter finds and her ability to find popular content with over a million views to subscribe to—I am just impressed by a child's curiosity.
When I was in the third grade, my mother would scold me, saying, "Stop watching this trashy TV and change the channel," and the show I wanted to watch but wasn't allowed to was "Kyosen x Maetake, Geba Geba 90 Minutes!" It seems a parent's instinct to not want their children to watch that kind of program was at work.
The doting, foolish grandpa who was so happy to hand his granddaughter a tablet and think, "This child is a genius," now joins Grandma in nagging, "How long are you going to watch YouTube? If you watch YouTube all the time, your eyes will get bad. What about your school homework?" and ends up saying, "Go study."
If I make her think that studying is something you have to do just to watch fun YouTube videos, it will become "something I hate," so I want to teach her the joy of learning... but I don't know how to teach her, and my worries as a grandpa never end.