Tips & resources for parents of teens on YouTube

We understand that parents and guardians sometimes have questions about their teen's behavior and wellbeing online. We’ve put together some tools and resources to help you manage their experience on YouTube.

Resources for parents

To support parents and families, we’ve created a Family Guide to teen content creation in partnership with Common Sense Networks, an affiliate of Common Sense Media.

For quick tips and advice, check out these Tips for Parents or watch these videos from our Family Guide:

You can also share these resources with your teen to help them get started:

Age requirements for teens

To sign in to YouTube, your teen must have a Google Account that meets the minimum age requirements in your country or region.

If your child is under the required age, learn more about what experiences are available for them in our YouTube For Families Help Center.

Privacy & safety tools

Supervised experiences

For additional safety, you can set up a supervised experience and link with your teen’s account. When linked, you can get insight into your teen’s YouTube activity. These insights may spark in-the-moment learning opportunities and conversations about how to safely create on YouTube. Learn more about supervised experiences for teens.

Support wellbeing

  • Take a break reminders: This feature is automatically turned on for teens and reminds them to take a break while browsing or watching videos or YouTube Shorts.
  • Bedtime reminders: This feature is automatically turned on for teens and appears when it’s time for them to stop watching YouTube and go to bed.
  • Autoplay turned off: This feature is automatically turned off for teens. While off, videos won’t continuously play for your teen and they’ll have to select the next video they want to watch.
  • Safety features for video recommendations: YouTube has video recommendation safety features that provide more responsible recommendations for teens. This system automatically minimizes exposure to content that could negatively impact their self-image or behaviors. Learn more about how we build content recommendations to meet the unique needs of teens.

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