Family-Friendly ROKU! Warning, some will appeal to 20 year olds!

I had one of them, a kid, only she's a young adult now.  It wasn't that long ago where I had to pick and choose programming and you can choose which channels to put on your TV, as opposed to setting up parental controls and hoping they don't watch something confusing across the street.  I can only make recommendations of channels I have limited knowledge of, it is up to you to test the waters and if you don't like a channel, go to the asterisk on the remote, press it, and follow the prompts to remove it!  Movies on any of the channels may have material you don't choose, but it seems most or all of pornographic channels are private channels you in fact have to search to locate.  For my mini tour of Roku, see my first video blog at: http://tvwithoutcable.blogspot.com/2012/03/roku-mini-tour-tv-addiction.html

Firstly, look in the channel store.  There is a row of channels called "Kids & Family," but be prepared some of this entertainment will make twenty-somethings smile or the little kid in all of us.  First the freebies.  Disney has a video channel, with clips from TV shows, Kidlet has free TV episodes most or all of which are cartoon shows (limited time offer), Khan Academy has subject teaching videos, The Bazillions with animated music videos and live performances.  Now you know your kids are grown up and you are getting old when you don't recognize the next best entertainment for kids.  I had to "google" The Bazillions.  Iggy.tv described as family-friendly and not embarrassing to adults, blip.tv independent "home" content, Party Rockers reality tween scene dance shows from Delaware, and Kid Paint (reminds me of Mario Paint)!!  At minimal cost:  Sudoku Art, Nature Window TV, Superman Classics  (1940s cartoons), Baby FirstTV (higher end at $4.99/mo.), Timeless Toons (24/7 live from FlickStream from 30s to 90s), Pets.TV, Ameba, some of the "Science and Technology" choices, Netflix at $7.99/month as a channel has Anime and Children & Family movies categories with Phineas & Ferb, Teen Spirit, cartoon movies, Lemonade Mouth, Iron Giant (good for all ages), and more, plus Netflix has some ABC Family movies mixed in.  Nowhere TV has a Kids and Family area with podcasts from DragonflyTV, Cartoon Network, BabyShiz, Sprout, Sesame Street, Kid Videos, Inside the Magic:Disney, EarthTouch and more.  If memory serves, I think PlayOn had some kid friendly offerings, see my blog http://tvwithoutcable.blogspot.com/2012/03/more-roku-channels.html  Also, Spiritclips has the ultimate in family entertainment with many Hallmark Hall of Fame films for about $3.00 a month.  See you soon for more hints on how to have inexpensive or free TV and movies and cartoons!