A reader writes:
Holt obviously has no children. As a pediatrician, I attempted to heed the American Academy of Pediatrics’ advice on limiting TV for my kids. I tried to teach them about all I wanted them to learn from an early age- I got nowhere. Once my kids started to watch Sesame Street, I saw their eyes light up. They all of a sudden developed a love of letters and numbers and shapes that I couldn’t instill in them personally. The education that these talking puppets gave my children has been far more impressive than anything I did. There’s some kind of magic that spreads into a child’s mind when a talking and singing puppet talks directly to them. Thank God that these puppets were used for good and not evil. I wouldn’t have stood a chance no matter how moral a compass I tried to imbue them with.
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