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Sesame Street is the ne plus ultra of kid’s shows, the one show most of us don’t feel guilty flipping on for awhile so we can do something crazy like eat a meal or go to the bathroom. While it’s not the totally wacky and hilarious show I remember from my own childhood, there’s still that wonderful sense of gentleness, for lack of a better word. Monsters, kids, and grownups all peacefully coexist, life’s challenging moments (economic woes, the death of a neighborhood friend, the arrival of a sibling) are all gently explained, and the mysterious world of letters and numbers and colors is unlocked in the most fun and subtle way.
The show’s changed a lot since my childhood and feels more commercial to me. But those changes — and indeed the show itself –have been rigorously, carefully researched from the very beginnings.
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Michelle Obama on Sesame Street
On November 10, 1969, a television show unlike any other debuted on PBS. Based on the idea that if you could hold the attention of children, you could educate them, the program introduced kids to a grouchy green creature who lived in a garbage can and an oversized yellow bird. That show, of course, was Sesame Street. Forty years later, the program that forever changed children’s television is celebrating with a brand new look and a VIP quest. Continue reading »
It practically took an act of Congress to get Americans to start washing their hands when H1N1 first surfaced last spring. But thanks to Elmo and his PSAs (that particular one not suitable for actual children), kids everywhere are now sneezing all their germs onto their shirt sleeves instead of into their hands. This reduces the number of germs spread by touch and increases the grossness of the dirty laundry pile at home.
Apparently, however, some adults aren’t getting the message. At last week’s press conference about H1N1, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius caught NBC’s Chuck Todd sneezing into his hands. Quelle horreur!
Sebelius jokingly reminded him to sneeze into your elbow, man, don’t you know any better? And by the way, get that guy some Purell. And then she called on Elmo to hold a “special briefing” to help Todd and his peers the proper way to sneeze.
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A while ago, the federal government reached out to the crew at Sesame Street to help educate the kids about healthy habits to help fight the swine flu. The series of four PSAs - featuring Elmo- instruct children on the importance of washing hands and sneezing and coughing into your arm rather than your hand. But Jimmy Kimmel has one other tip which takes a much more “radical” approach. Check out the clip here. Continue reading »
It’s all fun and games until a little kid sees Elmo roughing up tourists in New York City.
That’s exactly what kids who show up near Planet Hollywood in Manhattan will get a load of these days – a cranky “Elmo” who allegedly lunges at tourists who attempt to take his picture without handing over a tip first. Continue reading »
If the economic news is scary for us, imagine how scary it is for our kids. We understand all the reasoning behind why we’re cutting back and worrying a little (or a lot) more about the future. All our kids realize is that their parents are stressed and sad and sometimes a little irritable, and that fun things their familiy used to do aren’t happening anymore.
The lovely people at Sesame Street, along with David Letterman’s production company Worldwide Pants and Lookalike Productions have teamed up to present “Families Stand Together: Feeling Secure in Tough Times.” It’s aimed at families with kids between age two and age eight, and offers Continue reading »
Yeah, Elmo’s been know to bust a move, but he ain’t got nothing on this toddler. Hey Elmo, you like panckakes? ‘Cause you just got served. This kid totally OWNS that muppet. And really, don’t we wish all conflicts in the world could be resolved in dance battles?
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