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Last fall, I had a chance to babysit my young grandson for a full 16-hour day alone. Before my son left, he introduced me to Miss Rachel on Youtube. She is the hip new thing for kids these days. She is to them what Barney was for my son 30 years ago. She’s entertaining and fun and packs lots of education into her colorful videos. And because she is on Youtube, there is no need to subscribe to a streaming service or wait for the local t.v. station to schedule her show. Parents can just find her and play on their televisions, phones or other devices.

When my grandson hears Miss Rachel’s voice, he is immediately mesmerized and gives the screen his complete attention. This gives my son or daughter-in-law a little time to do important things, like clear the table, or wash the baby bottles. They can get little things done while Miss Rachel keeps the young one’s attention.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, here is a sample of a Miss Rachel video.

With almost 10 million subscribers, Miss Rachel is a big deal.

Going Woke

Unfortunately, Miss Rachel couldn’t keep her comments to early childhood education and teaching toddlers. She had to make a comment about Pride Month.

Problematic

It’s bad enough when stuff comes on the t.v. that I have to explain to my 10-year-old granddaughter. At least she has some maturity and reasoning skills. We can talk about things if there is something problematic. But Pride stuff for a baby and toddler is much worse. It’s putting impressions and ideas into their young minds as normal and baseline before they have a chance to develop. . Miss Rachel already has an androgynous character in her videos. But now that her Pride views are public, how long will it be before we start seeing two dads, two moms, transsexuals and drag queens inserted discretely in her videos.

There’s a word for putting these images innocuously into this type of media – GROOMING.

It’s too bad

I don’t understand why brands that have nothing to do with sex or sexuality can’t just stick to their brand. I’m guessing Budweiser wished it had .

Miss Rachel says she doesn’t care about clicks, likes, or subscribers, but that might not be the case when this starts affecting her income. I don’t think she’ll come back from this. If parents have to watch her videos like a hawk to make sure there’s nothing objectionable, then they aren’t going to get the brief time reprieve that the videos offered them. And that will be the end of it.

When I mentioned this to my son I could hear the stress in his voice. It’s going to be hard to give up Miss Rachel.

Unfortunately, by being loud on her views and going off brand, she hasn’t given Catholic parents much choice.

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