The majority of reality shows if not all are just staged performances using what appears as "real" people who go on to become reality stars?? The first show I saw, she was talking about cleaning floors with a tootbrush being a germ phobic,  I enjoyed the kids, they are cute. The best place for them really is benig watched by the world at this point. Life in general is chaos, and to them that is their normal. After eight kids, she has to have more nips and tucks than could be counted. lol I like the naval comment, too cute!

This whole world right now does not seem real. You just sit back and wait for the next time bomb to explode. Where’s the peace!

#1 Take him for a MRI and literally find the peanut in his brain.

#2 She has chosen to accomodate for her weight in her car and life, you can either enable her to continue using her weight for her behavior or choose to address her the same as anyone else who travels in your vehicle, either buckle up, stay behind or drive herself. Getting behind the wheel of her car and driving her is just further endulging her own need for attention.

There are so many similiarities in the two letters involving parents and children. I have yet to meet either a parent or child who was perfect. But until either party decides to give way from either being part of the problem or part of the solution, and chooses to work together on a resolution, life between them will only tend to exist rather than being enjoyed.

I had more than my share of times when I tried to engage my mother and test how valid her thinking was. I found out we had much in common, just different ways of looking generally at everything. Both on the same page, just different chapters. I wish I could try again, but that time doesn’t exist anymore. Life is too short to take others for granted.

Just maybe Jon should learn from Kate during the times he takes the shoe out of his mouth for a breath and has to reinsert or run away from questions. At least Kate is honest about trying to forge out the future rather than the next 15 minutes of fame or looking like a fool. They have taken the focus off of Octomom at least.

Natalie Morales is focused and driven, that part of her has shown through for a long time. I prefer her to Ann Curry anytime.

My favorite was Mr. Snuffleuppagus! He was more than could be seen at times by others, but to the children he was very real and that made him real. He was the innocence of being a child.

My oldest daughter was born on the small side at just over 4 lbs and barely 17” and the few years of her life she was slow on catching up, and watched Sesame Street everyday. When she was three, I took her to an ice show with the characters and she strained to see them from her seat even though she was sitting just a couple rows off the ice. They brought out a huge sled on the ice and started looking for kids to put on the sled. She really got excited and stood down by the railing but was too small to be seen. One of the skaters came over and seen her beneath the railing and scooped her up and put her on the sled. Even though she wasn’t any bigger than an 18 month old, she felt huge! They made that day which was part of a really hard time in her life disappear for awhile, and she has never forgotten her ride.

Joan,

Of all the authors, films, shows and producers in this world, you have touched and left a legacy which has yet to be matched! Thank you for bringing Sesame Street into all our lives.

I remember the milk man, Fuller Brush man and the Stanley person. We lived in a post WW2 cluster of 100 homes and one elementary school,  which was 10 milesoutside of the closest city.A town which only had a truck stop, grocery store and tavern prior to that time with a dozen homes. It is now considered a suburb.

I think more so than just technology is the pace of learning of the children now. Kindergarten is now all day, in addition to their regular class they have music, art, computer, Spanish and gym. My mother’s high school education is now the equivalent to a 6th grade education. My grandson will have two years of college credits before he graduates high school through being in the AVID program. The capacity to learn has either increased or the stimulus has increased. Technology is part of the curve, but education in standards and what is available at a younger age creates the difference.