I almost sat down and laughted myself to tears and so did my husband when we read The Post's article about the older Seseme Street episodes being too adult for the kids today. At first I was hoping it was all tongue in cheek, but after a while we thought maybe in this whole PC world that they were being serious. I find it amusing that something we watched as children is considered too adult for my children. I remember the whole pipe eating endings of Monsterpiece Theater and found them quite amusing as a child (it never has given me the idea that smoking is ok) of course if I remember correctly there were bubbles coming out of cookie monsters pipe also(but I haven't seen the old episodes in a long while). I personelly thing we coddle our younger generation too much, we try to expose our children to things through rose colored glasses way to much and I think it needs to come to a halt. I would rather my child watch the older episodes of Sesame Street, were snuffleupcous(sp?) was only seen by Big Bird and Oscar the Grouche was really a grouche then the prozac-induced over used Elmo Street show any day.
I actually let my child watch the old MGM cartoons, were violence was worse then in modern cartoons (which suprises me that they haven't been removed also) and Bugs Bunny smoked like a chimney. I mean you can't even find The Three Stooges on tv anymore b/c they have been removed b/c it is too violent for children, funny I thought they were hilarous as a child. I have old Curious George books where the Man in the Yellow Hat is smoking cigerettes, so are those going to be removed also? The Three Stooges was my favorite show growing up next to Ghostbusters (which was removed due to violent content), JEM, Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Bright, and Transformers. Sorry to say I never smoked a day in my life and am about as violent as Mickey Mouse so saying that these books and shows are not right for our children and will make them want to smoke and be violent then our world has some serious problems. They need to bring back the cartoons and shows of our generation and let the children watch them. If they were good enought for us before the PC world took over it should be good enough still!
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Lol, I read that article & was also confused if it was sarcastic or oh-so-serious PC crap. "Sesame Street" was a great show that taught many youngster to read (I learned at age 2 & a half after watching "Sesame Street" & "Electric Company," which starred Oscar winner Morgan Freeman!!!) & I think today's kids could benefit from the old episodes as well as the new ones. Great blog!!!
The world has lost its ever loving mind and has me looking for the exit.
My children were raised on Sesame Street, Electric Company, and dare I admit it, Mr. Rogers.
The world is becoming too anemic and too P.C. and very soon we are going to left with a bunch of polarized do-nothings.
You have a good point. People don't give kids enough credit anymore. All these so called experts constantly tell us that children shouldn't do this, and they should do that, and so on and so on. But it's stupid. I grew up watching Bugs Bunny cartoons and the Three Stooges and Seasame Street. There's nothing wrong with me. My mom and I would watch Seasame Street in the mornings together and had a ton of fun.
Parents these days need to really start taking responsibility for the things they do wrong. Instead they just blame everyone else.
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