Parental Controls Imbedded Youtube Vidoes Causes and Error

I am using the "Only Allow these websites" parental controls on my iMac (Mountain Lion 10.8.4).
However there is a website that has imbedded youtube videos (Rainbowloom.com). There are a imbedded youtube websites for the various lessons and I added them one by one (there are about 20).
The issue is that when attempting to play these videos MOST of the time, the video appears then goes to the end. Whether it is a 15 moin vidoe, 5 min video, (as shown on the imbeded video) the video shows "1 second" AFTER clicking and goes to the end (where it pompts you to play other vidoes). It also reports that an "error has occurred"
If I use the less restrictive parental contronls the video plays (let the Safari decide).
Anybody have a solution to this.
Thanks

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