What is YouTube good for, anyway?
Well, let me share why it’s good for ME!
Music!
There are more artists found on YouTube than I can count, and a plethora of songs in different formats! Lyrics, videos, slide shows, and more! All accompanied by our favorite songs!
It’s a wonderful distraction when I am cleaning, writing, doing other work, and even when I am in the shower.
When I am working in the house or in the yard, all I need is my earbuds, a fully charged phone, and YouTube! Music to motivate me through my day!
Even better, the meditation and sleep music that is available over thousands of choices, to play through the night to help the babies sleep peacefully, and Mommy too!
What else is it good for?
Kid Distraction!
Millions of videos are available here! From funny to educational to ridiculous yet entertaining.
My kids love watching the Five-Minute Craft channel, funny hand puppets, talking animals, funny fail videos, and some of their favorite video gamers who livestream their favorite online games can be found on YouTube.
If I allowed it, my kids would live on YouTube day and night!
You know what I get out of it? LONG SHOWERS! (Gosh, I wish I had a bathtub!)
The channels that I am still working on getting the kids interested in more are the “How To” channels. So many things are on this site! It’s like the encyclopedia of crafting, writing, video-making, vlogging, podcasting, building, recycling, planting, cooking, baking, and so many other things!
I recently stumbled upon some crochet and knitting channels that I now follow! And that excites me!
I have subscribed to so many channels I think I lost count!
Whoever invented this wonderful tool was blessed with genius!
Another perk of YouTube is the parental controls! Lord knows there are things there that children should NOT see! Things that I will never unsee have crossed my computer and phone screens! Ha!
YouTube is basically a search engine for almost anything under the sun. It’s the video Google of the internet. Just type something in the search bar, and a drop list of selections opens before your eyes!
For instance, the day my dad used YouTube to work on my Denali! Yes, he did!
Now, my children have tried to convince me to start my own YouTube channel.
So, I will ask my readers…
Is this something you would see me doing? Now? In the future?
I am simply a single mother with a basketball team of kids, and a few animals that hang around outside my house, living in the countryside next to my adorable grandparents and their chickens.
What would my channel be about?
Would I do video blogging? Reading my own blogs, and the blogs of my favorites in front of a camera? Reading books? Kids books? Chapter books? Telling stories? Showing off the Scentsy products I independently sell? Simply recording the antics of my children as they run wild in and out of my house? Some of you know exactly what I’m talking about with that one!
While I appreciate that my children are just trying to help me make money with my passion, my blog, and so on, I am not sure at all what I would do with a video channel on this amazing YouTube I sing praises of! Although, I must admit, it would be quite the adventure!
It is tempting…
