Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

UPDATE: please read earlier review down below... so this thing continues to be a total liability. I only allow my kids to use their echo dots for 1 hour a day with supervision. That being said, my 6 year old daughter was trying to play songs by Barbie and a parody came on that sounded like Barbie having sex with Ken and was talking about having a love child. What the?!?! The filters are seriously the worst. Parents beware and only allow use under supervision or just don't get one at all. First of all, we've had this echo dot for kids for several months now so I have a pretty good feeling for the interface. While it does have fun games and things for kids to do it has Amazon Music as a hard app (not removable) which is the reason for the 1 star. There is a child filter that is sorely lacking. You can set the age range for your child (I have a 3 and 6 year old) but some of the songs that come through have the occasional bad word... I wasn't thrilled about that but whatever, I just tell them not to play it again. HOWEVER today my 6 year old daughter was listening to music on her dot and then became very quiet. A few minutes later she came out of her room sobbing. I asked her what was wrong and she said when she asked Alexa to play a song called "daddy" (she loves playing cutie songs about moms and dads) A SONG ABOUT A DAD RAPING HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER AND HOW SHE SCREAMS BUT NO ONE HEARS CAME ON THE KID'S ECHO! Look up the lyrics. "Daddy" by Badflower. It's horrifying. She couldn't stop crying and although I don't think she knew the more nuanced and sinister parts of the song, OH MY GOODNESS it caused her a lot of unnecessary emotional turmoil! Parents please beware and know that while this can be a neat tool the child filter algorithm is flawed and your kids could potentially find horrible things through it. It didn't take much for my 6 year old to find something very damaging.