Be Exactly Who You Are says Big Bird and Mr. Rogers
Posted in Honors on November 4th, 2009 by Lynn – Be the first to comment
In celebration of Sesame Street’s 40th Birthday, I can’t help but think back on all of the shows that formed my childhood. I am definitely feeling old as I am having that “shows ain’t what they used to be” feeling going through my head. PBS was just on fire with shows like Sesame Street and Mister Rogers.
Okay. I know we are supposed to be celebrating Sesame Street, which I love and love the fact that it is still on TV for our kids after all of these years but…I LOVED Mr. Rogers. Have you seen him recently? Have you really listened to the lyric of his songs?
His lessons of peace and community and imagination and acceptance are mind blowing and nowhere else on tv or anywhere these days. A Fred Rogers quote:
“We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.“
Today, I can’t help (as we are waking up to find yet another state in our country is trying to legally define love in just one way) but think about the lessons that we learned in our childhood from Big Bird and Mister Rogers. They taught us that it was okay to be exactly who we are. That who I am is special and perfect.
Now that we are grown up, what happened to that? What was your favorite tv show from our youth?
