launderess
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Forty years of Ernie and Bert, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and just simply the best children's program there is.
Happy Birthday Sesame Street!
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I was raised watching it.
It set me off on the right foot, I just hope it's still as high quality now as it was then,
Dave
It set me off on the right foot, I just hope it's still as high quality now as it was then,
Dave
iheartmaytag
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As a long time volunteer at my local PBS station, I must emphatically state. Sesame Street is not a babysitter. These are educational programs designed to teach children while they are being engaged and entertained.
Mr. Rogers of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood was a Presbyterian minister and recognized back then that television was becoming too violent and fast paced for young minds. This is why you will see in his shows that they are very slow, meticulous and don't jump around. This is also the same concept that other PBS shows use in having a theme for the day and not changing and switching. Life shouldn't be so fast paced when you are three. Look at the other find shows that are available. Super Y, Word World, Science Kid. Your children are learning, turn on your captioning and turn down the sound and guess what--they are reading.
Now I will get of my Tide Box and join you is wishing Seasame Street, Big Bird, Oscar, Cookie, The Count, Kermit, and Piggy a very happy birthday, and many, many more.
Mr. Rogers of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood was a Presbyterian minister and recognized back then that television was becoming too violent and fast paced for young minds. This is why you will see in his shows that they are very slow, meticulous and don't jump around. This is also the same concept that other PBS shows use in having a theme for the day and not changing and switching. Life shouldn't be so fast paced when you are three. Look at the other find shows that are available. Super Y, Word World, Science Kid. Your children are learning, turn on your captioning and turn down the sound and guess what--they are reading.
Now I will get of my Tide Box and join you is wishing Seasame Street, Big Bird, Oscar, Cookie, The Count, Kermit, and Piggy a very happy birthday, and many, many more.
ronhic
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Yep...
I'm a Seasame Street (and others) kid....
Funny how they never age like the rest of us!
I'm a Seasame Street (and others) kid....
Funny how they never age like the rest of us!
douglasdc6
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If I remember correctly A show called Romper Room was going off the air & the new Seasame street show was to take its place.
While the new seasame Street show was airing another show was being introduced called the electric company - I loved that show.
While the new seasame Street show was airing another show was being introduced called the electric company - I loved that show.
launderess
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Yea, Kermit!
How could I have forgotten Kermit the Frog!
One of my favourite songs then and now was sung by this wise creature of the swamps/pools and it remains relevant today:
It's Not That Easy Being Green
It's not that easy being green
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold
Or something much more colorful like that
It's not easy being green
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
Or stars in the sky
But green's the color of Spring
And green can be cool and friendly-like
And green can be big like an ocean, or important
Like a mountain, or tall like a tree
When green is all there is to be
It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why
Wonder, I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
And I think it's what I want to be
As a child when one heard this song, at first one thought naturally of how sad poor Kermit's lot was as a frog, but as with all things on SS, there was more, much more.
What Kermit was saying and the song is about is that we are all different but yet we are all all beautiful and valued for who and what we are, AS WE ARE!
How could I have forgotten Kermit the Frog!
One of my favourite songs then and now was sung by this wise creature of the swamps/pools and it remains relevant today:
It's Not That Easy Being Green
It's not that easy being green
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold
Or something much more colorful like that
It's not easy being green
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
Or stars in the sky
But green's the color of Spring
And green can be cool and friendly-like
And green can be big like an ocean, or important
Like a mountain, or tall like a tree
When green is all there is to be
It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why
Wonder, I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
And I think it's what I want to be
As a child when one heard this song, at first one thought naturally of how sad poor Kermit's lot was as a frog, but as with all things on SS, there was more, much more.
What Kermit was saying and the song is about is that we are all different but yet we are all all beautiful and valued for who and what we are, AS WE ARE!
peterh770
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Happy birthday, Sesame Street!
travlincub321
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Thats why big birds legs are on google today!
Happy birthday sesame street
Happy birthday sesame street
I was already 10 by the time SS hit the air, so I didn't watch it. From what I've been able to glean, nearly every person a few years younger than me was a devoted follower. Happy birthday to da' Street!
bugsyjones
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Oh that TV show.
yogitunes
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Those songs and little guys stick in your head forever...
Grover....HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY Frogey! (SMACK)
BIG BIRD---love the song...I got two feet, one, two, that walk up and down the street....
Ernie---Rubber Ducky your the one!, you make bathtime lots of fun!....
I used to have all the 45's and read along books that came out, used to take them to school for "show and tell".....I did very well in school with the help of this stuff....
Great Memories!
Grover....HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY Frogey! (SMACK)
BIG BIRD---love the song...I got two feet, one, two, that walk up and down the street....
Ernie---Rubber Ducky your the one!, you make bathtime lots of fun!....
I used to have all the 45's and read along books that came out, used to take them to school for "show and tell".....I did very well in school with the help of this stuff....
Great Memories!
iheartmaytag
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The true story about the demise of Romper Room
Miss Fran, a Phonex AZ native, was actually a Mrs. Sherry Finkbine. She and her husband had several healthy young children when she found out she was excpecing another baby. It also turns out that Mrs. Finkbine had taken the drug Thalidomide. Her doctor advised that she terminate. She and her husband tormented about this decision and she confided to a "friend" who leaked it to the news.
It became a big whoopie-to-doo, this was 1969 you know. It hurt the Romper Room franchise all over the country. Besides SS, The Electric Company, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood were all way more educational.
The story was told in a 1992 movie "A Private Matter" with Sissy Spacek, and Aidan Quinn.
Miss Fran, a Phonex AZ native, was actually a Mrs. Sherry Finkbine. She and her husband had several healthy young children when she found out she was excpecing another baby. It also turns out that Mrs. Finkbine had taken the drug Thalidomide. Her doctor advised that she terminate. She and her husband tormented about this decision and she confided to a "friend" who leaked it to the news.
It became a big whoopie-to-doo, this was 1969 you know. It hurt the Romper Room franchise all over the country. Besides SS, The Electric Company, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood were all way more educational.
The story was told in a 1992 movie "A Private Matter" with Sissy Spacek, and Aidan Quinn.
iheartmaytag
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Should have paid better attention to spellin
That would be Phoenix, AZ.
That would be Phoenix, AZ.
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