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Think of tablets. Children use it for learning to read or to count; finding where
“Wally” is; watching funny videos on streaming websites. And for TVs, Video-
On-Demand (VOD) services such as Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime Instant, allow
them to watch all sorts of video content, including not only “educational” content, but
also—and children of course are not aware of it—content which is harmful for them.
Parents can always try to track these “unwanted” contents. But sometimes, when they
are out of home, they have to rely on babysitters for taking care of their children.
Occasionally, Clara works as a babysitter. A conscientious one! Not the sort of
babysitter who would put a child in front of the TV or in front of an iPad and focus
on talking for hours on the phone with her friends until the parents finally come back
and pay her.
Today, Saturday, Clara is babysitting Ben, the 9-year-old child of her neighbors
David and Rose. These are celebrating the promotion which Rose just obtained, so
they invited many guests in a restaurant, where the parents of Clara are also present.
The dinner is over. “Hey, what would you like to do, Ben?”, asks Clara. Ben is
not very talkative. He points to the TV with his finger. “Aha, so you want to watch
TV, huh? Okay.” adds Clara. Ben noticed that the famous 1990 movie
Home Alone
which he heard of recently, is aired on the VOD service. This is a well-known children
comedy movie starring child Hollywood star Macaulay Culkin.
Clara then says: “Hey buddy, I know that movie very well, you know! I agree to
watch it with you, but only if we skip the bad scenes, the scenes which are not good
for a cute child like you!” She remembers that some scenes are very funny but also
very violent. Especially, the scenes where the burglars first attempt to enter the house.
They got badly shot by a toy rifle. Then, one of them gets his scalp burned…Or inside
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