Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Amazon's FreeTime is required to run the thousands of apps, books, and websites supposedly safe for your children, but DO NOT trust the safety of the content in spite of the repeated assurances on FreeTime that everything has been carefully selected and parent approved. Yes, there are supposed age controls, but they don't help since the content is shockingly mature. For instance, I entered my child's age as 8 and then scanned the book list. About one third of the books were about ghosts, zombies, witchcraft, and warfare - with graphic, scary book covers. About one quarter of the books were teen novels that might be appropriate by age 13 (if ever) but why do they appear on an 8 year old reading list? There were also numerous books promoting world religions and religious holidays, but sadly not a single title was about Christmas or Easter. There were also several titles promoting evolution but none promoting creation. Overall, there were few books that qualify as decent literature so my recommendation is to turn off the books and the web browsing feature since Amazon's parental controls are terrible. The game apps so far seem age appropriate, so that is good. But Amazon, you have this whole parenting thing backwards. We are the parents and you are not. As the parent, I would like to be provided with options for books, apps, websites that I look through and choose for my child. I do not want my children choosing media based on Amazon's inappropriate recommendations. Can you please reverse this whole thing to give parents complete control? Instead of a parent having to block 500 inappropriate books one by one, I would prefer to choose books that I like for my child. Thank you for listening.