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Land of Make Believe crew checking in!! Modern Daniel Tiger is a good message and all, but blatant. Fred had that subtlety that let you still find your path t

by edoceo 5y ago

Land of Make Believe crew checking in!! Modern Daniel Tiger is a good message and all, but blatant. Fred had that subtlety that let you still find your path to your personal truth, like the best dad.

travisgriggs 5y ago
Newly minted granddad here. I’ve spent a couple hours with the kiddos playing and Daniel Tiger in the background. They watch sometimes. I agree with your sentiment. It seems nice and all, but somethings just meh about it compared to the old stuff. I’m increasingly concerned about a world that has doers and deciders. Fred Rogers was able to be both. He had the skills to do. But he also had a lot of influence and was able to decide. So often anymore, there are a group of creative doers who are placed under the thumb of people less able to do who have promoted themselves as a whole to take care of the deciding, so that the doers, uh, er, uh, have more time to do. Daniel Tiger feels like a well meaning kids show created in just such an environment.
stephenhuey 5y ago
In defense of Daniel Tiger, even if it can’t fully compete with Fred Rogers while trying to follow in his footsteps, it at least explores childhood feelings in a slow, deliberate & understandable way which is more than I can say for most shows for kids. Too much frenzied action in the realm of kids’ entertainment and Fred Rogers was complaining about that in testimony to Congress long before I was born!
beerandt 5y ago
We found in Bluey a lot of what we were looking for and expected in Daniel Tiger. Especially the "talking to kids in a helpful way" aspect. They're obviously not cut from the same template or are even necessarily trying to be the same thing. The kids enjoy both, and both are great shows, but affecting learned/emulated behavior (for both the kids and us with better parenting) is much more apparent with Bluey.

by edoceo 5y ago

Land of Make Believe crew checking in!! Modern Daniel Tiger is a good message and all, but blatant. Fred had that subtlety that let you still find your path to your personal truth, like the best dad.

travisgriggs 5y ago

Newly minted granddad here. I’ve spent a couple hours with the kiddos playing and Daniel Tiger in the background. They watch sometimes. I agree with your sentiment. It seems nice and all, but somethings just meh about it compared to the old stuff. I’m increasingly concerned about a world that has doers and deciders. Fred Rogers was able to be both. He had the skills to do. But he also had a lot of influence and was able to decide. So often anymore, there are a group of creative doers who are placed under the thumb of people less able to do who have promoted themselves as a whole to take care of the deciding, so that the doers, uh, er, uh, have more time to do. Daniel Tiger feels like a well meaning kids show created in just such an environment.

stephenhuey 5y ago

In defense of Daniel Tiger, even if it can’t fully compete with Fred Rogers while trying to follow in his footsteps, it at least explores childhood feelings in a slow, deliberate & understandable way which is more than I can say for most shows for kids. Too much frenzied action in the realm of kids’ entertainment and Fred Rogers was complaining about that in testimony to Congress long before I was born!

beerandt 5y ago

We found in Bluey a lot of what we were looking for and expected in Daniel Tiger. Especially the "talking to kids in a helpful way" aspect. They're obviously not cut from the same template or are even necessarily trying to be the same thing. The kids enjoy both, and both are great shows, but affecting learned/emulated behavior (for both the kids and us with better parenting) is much more apparent with Bluey.