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It's interesting seeing how many people loved Mr Rogers as a kid. To offer a contrasting experience... As far back as I can remember, I hated Mr Rogers. And i
by dilap 5y ago
It's interesting seeing how many people loved Mr Rogers as a kid.
To offer a contrasting experience...
As far back as I can remember, I hated Mr Rogers. And in general, I did not enjoy it when adults spoke differently to me than they spoke to each other.
To this day, statements like
> Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them, and listening is an important part of growing.
strike me as incredibly weird, almost like a verbal version of the uncanny vally.
- drdeadringer 5y agoKids can tell when they aren't being given straight answers. Kids may not understand that they're doing "The 5 Whys", and//or that doing so may be annoying for the umpteenth time. But non-answers like "because" as the be-all & end-all has an expiration date. That bill comes due for somebody. If that somebody ends up being your grown-up kid when it's time to pay, I wonder how much sympathy I'll have and for whom.
- castlecrasher2 5y ago>I did not enjoy it when adults spoke differently to me than they spoke to each other. Seeing the Mr Rogers documentary that came out a few years ago, I realized that he basically spoke the same with everyone.
- dilap 5y agoOK, that's fair! He spoke very unlike the adults and kids around me, though. :-)
- jgwil2 5y ago> > Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them, and listening is an important part of growing. > strike me as incredibly weird, almost like a verbal version of the uncanny vally. I don't think that you have to talk to kids that you know like this, but it was important on the TV show that they not make assumptions (like that the child knows their parents) because they are broadcasting it to a huge number of kids with different life circumstances.