Sesame Street, bad for my child?
In today's world...
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I was amazed to hear the news reporter quip "there's a warning about Sesame Street, it might not be good for your child", then went to commercial! Don't you just love it when they do that?! Then you hang on til they come back and read the story at the end of the next half hour!
It's not really the current episodes of Sesame Street that are bad for your children, it's the versions from 40 or so years ago. There are now Volumes I & II out on DVD that features story-lines, or skits that might not be suitable for your child to see because it might let them do or believe the wrong thing! So the producers have put a warning lable on them.
One of the scenes on the DVD is a stranger met little "Sally" (not the right name) on the road and took her home to meet his wife. While Sally did not go inside their house, she stayed outside, and the couple were very friendly and nice, then the wife invited Sally to come back to visit with them again. Do you see what's wrong with that picture? Yep, 'stranger danger" the warnings that we now give our children, back in 1969, that was not necessary to do! In today's world it is!
There is a scene of Cookie Monster gobbling up, quite greedily, some cookies; the children might get the wrong impression and think that being obsessed with sweet, sugary cookies is a good thing! In today's world it's not! Childhood obesity is a very big (pardon the pun) and ugly problem these days!
Oscar the Grouch is very depressed and quite angry in one scene. You remember how Oscar is right? The grouchy, curmudgeonly character that we used to get a laugh from because of his grumpy antics? Not cute and funny anymore! In today's world, Oscar is considered manic depressive and that is not a good thing for children to see! We don't want them to know that people do have good and bad days!
Back in the day, when my siblings and I used to sit down and watch with avid adoration those little muppets and puppets and people on that beloved show, we didn't worry about stuff like that! It wasn't necessary then, but it is now, in today's world!
It's a sad state of affairs indeed!"
It's not really the current episodes of Sesame Street that are bad for your children, it's the versions from 40 or so years ago. There are now Volumes I & II out on DVD that features story-lines, or skits that might not be suitable for your child to see because it might let them do or believe the wrong thing! So the producers have put a warning lable on them.
One of the scenes on the DVD is a stranger met little "Sally" (not the right name) on the road and took her home to meet his wife. While Sally did not go inside their house, she stayed outside, and the couple were very friendly and nice, then the wife invited Sally to come back to visit with them again. Do you see what's wrong with that picture? Yep, 'stranger danger" the warnings that we now give our children, back in 1969, that was not necessary to do! In today's world it is!
There is a scene of Cookie Monster gobbling up, quite greedily, some cookies; the children might get the wrong impression and think that being obsessed with sweet, sugary cookies is a good thing! In today's world it's not! Childhood obesity is a very big (pardon the pun) and ugly problem these days!
Oscar the Grouch is very depressed and quite angry in one scene. You remember how Oscar is right? The grouchy, curmudgeonly character that we used to get a laugh from because of his grumpy antics? Not cute and funny anymore! In today's world, Oscar is considered manic depressive and that is not a good thing for children to see! We don't want them to know that people do have good and bad days!
Back in the day, when my siblings and I used to sit down and watch with avid adoration those little muppets and puppets and people on that beloved show, we didn't worry about stuff like that! It wasn't necessary then, but it is now, in today's world!
It's a sad state of affairs indeed!"
