There's that pesky 47 again!
I have always despised sesame st. Our nine youngest kids have never seen it.
It is time to pull the plug on Federal funding for PBS.
This is hysterical. It seems a bit ridiculous for a grossly overweight bird, a round-faced, chubby Ernie, and a fat, fuzzy blue "monster" who consumes only cookies to be telling children about healthy eating. When they push this new diet initiative...are those characters going to suddenly become slim? Then will they go after Miss Piggy, too? Will we see sleek and slim replacements showing off their toned arms?
As children, most of us learned nutrition in grade school, and again in health class in high school. However, we didn't need (or even understand) the principles much before the age of ten, if even by then. Silly puppets telling pre-schoolers with short attention spans about healthy eating is expecting them to have more respect for some make-believe characters than for what their parents are doing in their own homes. It is really just another ploy to try to alienate children from their parents and make them think their parents are bad.
However, if parents were the ones taking the initiative to provide well balanced, lower calorie meals there would be no problem. But all the money spent on Sesame Street touting the value of veggies, and lessons in school will not make one bit of difference. Only the parents can control what is being served on the table and provided in the home for their children.
And unless Big Bird, Ernie, and the Cookie Monster are going to go into the kitchens of America and prepare meals there is no way they are going to change what Mom or Dad plan to serve to their family.
With all of the Sesame Street merchandise being sold, why does the Sesame Workshop need grants?
