Please take a moment to watch this. It's powerful and well-worth the few minutes it will take:
Fred Rogers testifying about the need for children's programming on PBS.
"Because there's no person in the world who's like you and you are special just the way you are."
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It's nice to see the younger Fred Rogers. I met him twice, once when I watched him film a segment about elevators. He treated every member of the crew as a friendly member of the neighborhood and pitched in to fetch, carry, and clean up.
I realized suddenly that I no longer have any knowledge of children's television. My daughter is in high school and I can't think of any relatives or close family friends under twelve. Well, almost. We have been known occasionally to watch Arthur and reruns of Wishbone.
I _love_ Wishbone and Arthur and Bill Nye! Just the other day my kids admitted to me that they no longer identify with Arthur and DW. For so many years they felt that show was about them--the strong-willed younger sister, the older bro w/glasses (except C plays the cello and not the piano). One of our fav CDs is still an Arthur music CD. We can all belt out the songs together! Magic SchoolBus was also a big fav at our house--I bought almost every episode on VHS and we watched them repeatedly.
Nowadays I've heard that Dora the Explorer is the hot PBS show. I've never seen it but I think it's cool that it has a female protag.
I really wish I had met Mr Rogers (we call him 'Frogers' at our house--a remnant from the era when C started all of his words with 'f'). As a young girl I was convinced that Frogers lived down the street from us--in a house set a ways back from the street on a hill. I don't know why I thought that--the house looked nothing like his TV set. But perhaps I was just sure that Mr. Rogers was a part of my neighborhood, too.
Our daughter read Henry IV part one this year in school. I was sitting in the living room with her, alternately reading the Sunday paper and helping her with the text, when she suddenly brightened and began to smile. I asked her why. She said that she had just realized that she had seen it before... on Wishbone!
Zoom was another favorite in our house, particularly because it was locally produced.
I am proud to live where PBS and NPR thrive.
-Gray
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