(NEW) Echo Dot (4th Gen, 2020 release) Kids

Got this at Prime Day deals. Thought wow it can help my son explore and educate with facts. It came with AmazonKids+. It could read him audibles and play interactive stories. Each day I use AmazonKids+ on the thing I walk away frustrated. I'm go to my parent dashboard turn something on like a book or a skill or Alexa to use and get told "I can't do that". Amazonkids needs to be turned on verbally each time but yet have the ability for the device to access the platform interfers with skills Alexa can do. So in order to hear a sleepy rain sound or read a book about Scooby Doo, I'd have to uninable AmazonKids. The platform for anything child or appropriate for a certain age should be seemless. Also the same Amazonkids skills get mentioned each time, the same story, the same jokes, etc. When I as the parent try to locate something specific, Alexa or rather Amazonkids talks over me. I turned on the extended listening for Alexa or Kid+ to pick up additional questions, only to have it not pick them up or talk over me. I'm trying to teach my son manners. So I instruct him to use please and thank you. Sometime his Echo picks those up but most times it does not. At the same time I bought an Echo for the master bedroom. We don't have nearly the problems. She picks up the manners and responds. She hardly talks over. Now because it's in the master bedroom, I don't listen to books or play games but other skill requests she'll do whereas my childs doesn't. I've had this thing a month or so now. I like it plays sounds like ocean or rain but the nighttime music is not the best. I like it answers facts for my son's curious mind. He's 5 so looking something up on the web is a bit challenging for him yet. I like it'll tell him jokes and occasionally when I find a book or game it'll work for him. I don't like that I have to stumble onto a blog site with parents questions hosted here on Amazon and not simply be told it exists. I don't like that I have to be very proficient in techy stuff to figure out a game or book my son can hear on an echo. That I still don't know how to effectively work the abilities of this echo for my son after a month. It shouldn't be soooo difficult. The parentboard doesn't all me to deny a game or show or whatever. If Amazon deems it appropriate for a certain age range, then my child can see or view it or hear it, if I could access it on echo. What we do play is on his tablet, Amazon Kids+. He plays games. But he has to constantly go through the same ones to find new ones. I have to tell him and trust which ones I don't want to play or watch. Just yesterday he was searching through Star Wars games. A whole slew of them. My kid isn't interested and in my opinion not ready for many of them. He showed me what he was doing and asked for help. So would I buy again, no. Will I continue to try to get more out of this thing, yes. We got a year of AmazonKids+ to determine if it's worth it for our family. I'll continue to do that research as well.