Can we not just let kids be kids?
Sesame Street Has A New Extreme Weather Episode. Here’s What Climate Experts Think
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It’s been a summer of climate extremes—from record-breaking heat waves to deadly flash floods to a fire season that has seen a number of acres burned well above the 10-year average. Even Sesame Street, where sunny days once swept the clouds away, can’t seem to keep the storms at bay.
A new special, Storm on Sesame Street, which aired on Aug. 3, follows Elmo and friends as they work together to get ready for a big storm, and help rebuild in its aftermath. The episode was created to help kids better understand extreme weather as it becomes increasingly more frequent.
“Extreme weather is now a reality for many families, and young children need support they can understand and trust,” Joseph Giraldi, chief operating officer of Sesame Workshop, said in a press release. “With our Extreme Weather response initiative, we’re using the power of Sesame Street to help children prepare for what’s ahead, cope with big emotions during moments of disruption, and begin to recover afterward. From our new storm special to year?round resources and community outreach, this initiative reflects our commitment to showing up for children and families when they need it most.”
The episode provides an opening for adults to help prepare kids about what to expect during an extreme weather event—before it actually happens. Elmo and his father help hand out food and water to their neighbors, talk through the big emotions the storm brings up, and find ways to help their friends when the storm leaves Sesame Street unrecognizable.
Just leave the kids alone. Let them grow up.
Children should ONLY be taught that unless they behave and worship a creator that no one has ever seen, somewhere in the cosmos, they will burn for eternity in a sea of fire!!!
That should have them behaving!
Our esteemed host wrote:
Meanwhile, our Ozarkian agnostic mocked the notion of religious education. Well, Hamas have proved that they could educate the kids in Gaza, and probably Judea and Samaria as well, to absolutely hate Jews and want to kill them all.
I suppose that Hamas have proven that if you teach the kids in their false god, they’ll support even their own martyrdom to kill the infidels.
Meanwhile, in the United States, as religious belief has waned, we have more and more kids growing up anti-social, as even the socialist from St Louis can see in his own metropolitan area’s bad neighborhoods.
One thing ought to be obvious: 75 years ago, when the vast majority of American families attended church, we had a far more civil society. When you rear children to do the right things, even if the distinguished Mr Dowd believes it’s based in a false belief, you get better children.
Look at what we have today, after fifty years of society saying that religion isn’t important. We have bastardy rates soaring, we have far more children being reared in single-parent homes, we have “teens” raising all sorts of Hell just for fun, we have more divorce and fewer marriages, we have greater poverty, we have prisons which are full, but still not full enough, and we have a society which seems to believe that nothing is their own fault.
Our Bluegrasser blusters about Hamas for some reason. All supernatural religions are ridiculous. His included.
Should children do EVERYTHING a priest tells them??? Really?
Global warming, which is real, being taught to children is evil.
Terrifying children with tales of burning in hell (which is NOT real) is desirable.
He recommends brainwashing and grooming children to force their good behavior.
He also severely overrates the favorable impacts of supernatural religions on societies.
Mr Dana also recommends the United States return to a white, evangelical christian, male-dominated society as the founding fathers wanted. His primary argument is that things were better for white, christian males then.