What this is, and what it is not
How much is too much
The World Health Organization's guidance for children aged two to four is no more than one hour of screen time a day, and less is better. For children under two, it recommends none at all.
The American Academy of Pediatrics puts the same age group at up to an hour of high-quality programming, and stresses co-viewing — an adult watching along, talking about what is happening.
We would rather tell you this than have you find it somewhere else and wonder why we did not.
What we try to do
Slow pacing. Few cuts. Repeating lines a child can predict and join in with. Stories that end where they began, which is the shape that helps this age feel a story has finished.
What we do not claim
These are not therapy, not a curriculum, and not a substitute for talking with your child. No study has tested our videos. If someone tells you a video will teach your toddler to speak, be careful — including if that someone is us.
Money and ads
The videos are free. We do not run our own advertising in them, and there is nothing to buy here. YouTube may place its own ads around any video; that part is theirs, not ours, and a YouTube Premium account or the YouTube Kids app changes what you see.
This website collects nothing
No cookies. No analytics. No fonts, scripts, or images loaded from other companies. We do not embed the YouTube player, because an embedded player sends your address to Google as soon as the page opens — even in its privacy-enhanced mode. Instead the pictures here are ours, and the links take you to YouTube only when you choose.
Who makes this
Leo Channel is made by Indra, in Indonesia. One person writes the songs and the stories, decides what gets made, and decides what is good enough to publish.
I have two small children of my own.
This started with a question I kept asking as a parent and never answered well: what would I actually be happy to hand them? I wanted something slower. Something that did not have to shout to keep their attention. Something they could grow alongside rather than simply be kept quiet by.
So everything here is made the way I would want it made for my own two. That is not a credential — I am not a teacher, a paediatrician, or a speech therapist, and nothing here should be read as advice from one. It is just the only standard I know how to hold honestly.
What I can tell you is exactly how the videos are made, and what gets checked before they go out.
How the videos are made
The illustrations, the music and the narration are made with the help of AI tools. A person writes every word, chooses every scene, and looks at every single page before anything is published — not a sample of pages. Every one.
That check is not a formality. The most recent picture book passed every automated test we run — layout, contrast, motion, audio levels, all clean — and looking at the pages one at a time still found the main character drawn as a different child on page six, and a second copy of another character on page fourteen. Both pages were remade before it was published.
We mention this because you would find out eventually, and it seems better that you hear it here. If a video ever looks wrong to you, it is worth telling us — a machine checking its own work is exactly the thing that misses this.
Watching together
If you only take one thing from this page: say the words out loud with them. Name the bus. Count the bubbles. Ask what happens next before it happens. The video is the excuse; the talking is the part that does the work.