When I was a kid you could come home to TV shows that were entertaining in a positive way. SESAME STREET, MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD and THE ELECTRIC COMPANY.
A couple of hours would be TV news and after that would be THE MUPPET SHOW, LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE and healthy sitcoms such as BENSON, HAPPY DAYS, LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY and MORK AND MINDY. Today children are being subjected to not only excessive violence on television but ignorance as well.

People seem to think all you need to do is create a sitcom where children are smart mouthed, disrespectful, adults are talking down to them and there's your children's television. Well that is NOT children's television! Children need to be entertained positively and they need to be respected. They need to create shows that are funny without kids calling each other names and wising off to their parents. Children who watch that pick up on it in real life and it poisons their minds.

Of all TV stations, I believe PBS is the only one that still airs educational shows. MISTER ROGERS, BARNEY, THE BERENSTAIN BEARS, CLIFFORD, DRAGON TALES and SESAME STREET still carry the positive message but aired only in the mornings. Elementary school age children are missing them and they shouldn't. Kids as high as 5th grade should know the real values of life. That it's more important to share a hug than it is to make fun of people and hurt their feelings. That it's more important to hold a stuffed toy in your arms than it is to hold a gun or a sword.

Television is nothing like it was. As far as I'm concerned it's disappeared.
I hope one day it comes back.

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