If you want a kids tablet without YouTube, the real question is simple:
What do you want the tablet to be for?
If it is for everything, it will become everything.
Videos.
Games.
Random browsing.
One more click.
One more episode.
But if the tablet is for reading, then the setup has to match that.
For Muslim families, that means the tablet should not just be “less bad.” It should have something good ready to open.
The Mayous library helps with this because free Mayous eBook library members can log in, open each Islamic story once while connected to Wi-Fi, and let it load. Then parents can turn off internet access, and the child can keep reading on the same tablet and browser.
That changes the whole tablet session.
Instead of saying, “Don’t open YouTube,” the parent can make YouTube unavailable.
Open the stories.
Let them load.
Turn off Wi-Fi or mobile data.
Then hand over the tablet.
Some parents also want extra settings or apps. Internet Matters provides parental-control guides for devices, apps, and platforms. Protect Young Eyes shares step-by-step parental-control guides for popular devices. And if you are still figuring out the family rules, Child Mind Institute offers practical advice on setting screen-time limits for children.
But do not make this more complicated than it needs to be.
If the goal is Islamic reading, prepare the reading first.
Then remove the internet.