Comments on: Email is Almost as Old as Sesame Street http://sojoandco.com/2009/11/05/email-is-almost/ Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:24:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: osarah http://sojoandco.com/2009/11/05/email-is-almost/#comment-1699 osarah Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:51:51 +0000 http://sojoblog.com/?p=1146#comment-1699 Haha, I love that you have the DVDs. We want them too! We want to show them to our children (hopefully they'd be interested in watching). We'd probably be considered bad parents for "letting" our kids watch it, but oh well! I watched it, and I think I turned out just fine. Haha, I love that you have the DVDs. We want them too!

We want to show them to our children (hopefully they’d be interested in watching). We’d probably be considered bad parents for “letting” our kids watch it, but oh well! I watched it, and I think I turned out just fine.

]]> By: osarah http://sojoandco.com/2009/11/05/email-is-almost/#comment-1698 osarah Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:50:46 +0000 http://sojoblog.com/?p=1146#comment-1698 I love the muppets too, and I agree with you about Barney. Blech. Powerwashed...what a good word to describe our culture. I will have to borrow that from time to time. I love the muppets too, and I agree with you about Barney. Blech.

Powerwashed…what a good word to describe our culture. I will have to borrow that from time to time.

]]> By: mloylo http://sojoandco.com/2009/11/05/email-is-almost/#comment-1671 mloylo Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:52:23 +0000 http://sojoblog.com/?p=1146#comment-1671 Comment deleted. This is a family-friendly blog. Please do not post inapproriate material. Comment deleted. This is a family-friendly blog. Please do not post inapproriate material.

]]> By: CN Heidelberg http://sojoandco.com/2009/11/05/email-is-almost/#comment-1669 CN Heidelberg Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:18:13 +0000 http://sojoblog.com/?p=1146#comment-1669 We have the Sesame Street DVDs and saw that message! Childhood definitely seems like an overly-careful place now compared to when we were kids. If I tried to raise my kid the way I was raised someone would be able to call me in for neglect, probably - and I was very far from neglected! I just had some freedom and there wasn't so much fear. We have the Sesame Street DVDs and saw that message! Childhood definitely seems like an overly-careful place now compared to when we were kids. If I tried to raise my kid the way I was raised someone would be able to call me in for neglect, probably – and I was very far from neglected! I just had some freedom and there wasn’t so much fear.

]]> By: purejoy http://sojoandco.com/2009/11/05/email-is-almost/#comment-1667 purejoy Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:32:36 +0000 http://sojoblog.com/?p=1146#comment-1667 i went to kindergarten in 1968. i was always bitter that i was "too old" for sesame street, or that our tv didn't pick up the pbs station very well. as a babysitter, i used to LOVE watching sesame street with the kids, and was a HUGE fan of the muppet show. what i loved about all things muppet was their ability to be educational and yet engaging. as much for parents as for little ones. this is what really irked me about barney. i am proud to say i raised my kids in a no-barney zone when he was ALL the rage. i thought the show condescending and banal. i would not subject my kids to that. i think i cried the day jim henson died. such a loss of creativity and genius, but i'm glad to see his legacy lives on. i'm sad to see all of our culture get so powerwashed. we're all so wary of saying something that will be misinterpreted or hurt someone's feelings. yeah cookie monster smoked. and that's why kids have parents. so they can tell their kids not only is it inappropriate to smoke pipes, but it's not a good idea to eat them, either. i went to kindergarten in 1968. i was always bitter that i was “too old” for sesame street, or that our tv didn’t pick up the pbs station very well. as a babysitter, i used to LOVE watching sesame street with the kids, and was a HUGE fan of the muppet show. what i loved about all things muppet was their ability to be educational and yet engaging. as much for parents as for little ones.
this is what really irked me about barney. i am proud to say i raised my kids in a no-barney zone when he was ALL the rage. i thought the show condescending and banal. i would not subject my kids to that.
i think i cried the day jim henson died. such a loss of creativity and genius, but i’m glad to see his legacy lives on.
i’m sad to see all of our culture get so powerwashed. we’re all so wary of saying something that will be misinterpreted or hurt someone’s feelings. yeah cookie monster smoked. and that’s why kids have parents. so they can tell their kids not only is it inappropriate to smoke pipes, but it’s not a good idea to eat them, either.

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