Talk To Us

Join our Facebook Group to connect, stay informed and discuss all things children’s media safety with us. If you have specific questions or concerns, this group is an effective platform to voice those.

Additionally, you can reach out to us anytime via our website, Facebook page and Instagram. We welcome and value your input and feedback!

Where Should Parents Watch MGC?

It’s important for parents to feel they have control over the platform their child is using. For this reason, we’re proud to have expanded our content library across a number of different platforms, in order to give parents the freedom of choice to enjoy Mother Goose Club in an environment they are comfortable in.

• Watch Mother Goose Club on Netflix
• Watch Mother Goose Club on Amazon
• Get the Mother Goose Club App
• Use our website for videos, songs and parenting resources

For parents who primarily use YouTube for Mother Goose Club content, we recommend browsing our tips for safely navigating YouTube.

What’s In the Works?

We’re working to build upon our Show Me How series by developing more content for you – the parents, teachers and caregivers. Last year, we released our blog with the goal of empowering families with resources and tips that will inspire joyful learning.

We’ll continue building upon these resources and lines of communication in order to be as accessible, informative and engaged as possible with our fans. So stay tuned for more candid videos and blogs, and don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

Taking a Stand

On July 30, Harry and Sona took an official stance on this topic with a letter to the FTC voicing support for important changes the FTC wishes to implement, as well as concerns with their plan to get us there. You can read the full letter here. Harry and Sona strongly support privacy and believe that kids should, under no circumstances, be tracked. At the same time, there is a vibrant community of children’s creators supported by advertising revenue, so wholly removing advertising on kids’ content could have repercussions as well.

Additionally, on October 7, Harry participated in an important public workshop at the FTC in Washington, D.C. where he expressed these same thoughts and concerns. You can watch a full playback of the workshop here (Harry’s panel begins at 3:14:30).

Join the Conversation

We hope you’ll join us in this important conversation by sharing your own opinions and questions. On our end, we’ll continue striving to make your experiences with Mother Goose Club as safe and enriching as possible. Our ultimate goal is to inspire joyful learning for families around the world, and we’re grateful for your trust and support.

The press is reporting that the FTC is planning to take action against YouTube and Google due to the exploitative risks on their platform for children under 13 – data collection, privacy, ads and inappropriate content to name a few. These are important regulatory actions and we welcome their attention to this problem. As parents, former educators and a leading digital creator for children, we’ve always felt a responsibility to share our observations and concerns with the industry so as to improve our audience’s online experience (especially on YouTube) and to make it as safe as possible – this moment is no different.

We completely agree with the need for better regulatory oversight of kids content on YouTube and hope you do too. The abuses on YouTube that have been reported in the media speak for themselves. However, while we agree with the spirit of the FTC’s policy proposals we have seen in the press, we are concerned that implementing such proposals would have some serious unintended consequences.

One of our biggest fears is that instead of improving the content available to children by moving kids content to YouTube Kids exclusively, families (most of whom still do not use the kids app, though widely available) would remain on YouTube with the remainder – a surplus of low-quality, and inappropriate options. We also worry about the proposals around advertising. We strongly support privacy and don’t think kids should be tracked. However, we don’t agree with those who want to remove all advertising against kids content. We believe, instead, that advertising to parents, which isn’t new and something we’ve seen for years on broadcast television, should (and can) be better regulated. We are confident this approach can be easily implemented with existing tools on YouTube and that a solution like this, to improve the ad environment for kids – but not eliminate it – is the one that best serves kids and creators.

We’ll be the first to say that we have an interest here. We are passionate about our work and believe in the media that we’ve created for kids globally. We rely on advertising to continue creating and ultimately stay in business. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to meet the demand from parents for new videos, or requests for more resources from teachers. Of course, we’d love to be able to distribute our content without ads everywhere. For this reason, we’ve worked hard to provide fans who want an ad-free experience several options.

First, all our videos are available for free, ad-free, on our website, or with a subscription to our app. Further, we’ve partnered with various subscription services, like Netflix and Amazon Prime, who provide an ad-free experience.

We think offering Mother Goose Club content wherever we can, for families to access however they can is paramount. Many parents and teachers discover us because we are where they are, and that includes the ad-supported YouTube platform. We know from emails and comments on social media our audience cares about our being discoverable and available to them there and it’s also important to us.

We believe we’re all trying to get to the same place here: a safe place, grounded in sensible rules that make YouTube a platform that provides children with opportunities to engage with quality content, without being exploited. We therefore urge the FTC to focus its reform efforts on

(1) curation efforts designed to elevate good content and weed out bad actors,

(2) improving how, and what, ads are being shown, and

(3) educating parents on the ways YouTube Kids, an app which has been designed exclusively for kids content, offers a better experience for children than regular YouTube.

We believe these changes, rather than eliminating all ads, will be more effective in creating an enriching space for children on YouTube, while allowing for creators of good quality content to thrive and innovate.

We hope the FTC can engage with more of the digital community, including creators, while figuring out the right regulatory response. On July 30, we took a more official stance as content creators and parents by sending a letter to the FTC expressing our views. The letter explains our support for the important changes they wish to implement, as well as our concerns with their current plan to get us there. You can read the full letter here.

We know many of you are looking for more information on this topic and are seeking better experiences for your children. We hope you’ll join us in this important conversation by reading our letter and sharing your own opinions and questions. We deeply appreciate receiving this type of feedback from you and hope to continue the conversation – we’re all in this together.

Happy New Year! If you’re reading this, your family probably spends a lot of time with us… so we want to start by saying thank you! We appreciate your trust in us and engagement with our content more than ever. This year, you helped us realize so many new Mother Goose Club experiences. We’ve launched plush, books, t-shirts and even a new blog for parents!

Exciting things are in store for 2019. We are working on new, interactive YouTube livestream programming that will engage your kids in learning through music and movement. We’re also developing a live theater show, so your child can finally meet Mother Goose Club. More board books are on the way, including “Dinosaur Stomp” and “Ice Cream Song”, not to mention more music and videos!

As we continue to grow, we know that the most important part of Mother Goose Club is you! Have ideas for how Mother Goose Club can better serve your family? Share your thoughts over Facebook, Instagram or email. We value your feedback and are so thankful to share your valuable family time.

Here’s to a great year of joyful learning!

-Harry and Sona