My kids hate Sesame Street. It has become stupid, though I don't know when. There's no more counting, no more letters, no more grown-ups guiding the kids--the grown-ups are friends, not authority figures.
And my kids don't like it.
Odysseus found that Amazon Prime streams classic Sesame Street. Season 1, even. Gordon has a 'fro, and mutton chops attached to a mustache.
I pulled it up this morning, and the theme song came on--the song remains the same, even if nothing else does--and the imp whines "Can we please watch something else? This is stupid."
I got him to give it a chance, and he's now entranced. It's a lot better, a lot more advanced, than the Sesame Street he's used to. I'm hoping it helps him like it did me when I was little. Although, I will freely admit that this particular episode (season 1, episode 1) is way before my time. I watched in the early '80s.
One difference that I'm already seeing, that the kids like better, is that Gordon is leading a little girl around, teaching her. And he's acting as an authority figure, not as a friend. That grants a security to children that the newer episodes totally lack.
1 hour ago
If it works, it's all good! ;-)
ReplyDeleteThe new Sesame Street really sucks. It's crap at best, and propaganda at worst.
DeleteThe older Sesame Street did more for early childhood education than HeadStart ever could. And it was already in a format that children liked... TV.
ReplyDeleteYes, they did. And then the creators fucked it up.
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