You’re screwed up, and it’s all Mr. Rogers’ fault

July 06th, 2007 | Category: Children

I wasn’t a Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood kid; I was a Sesame Street kid. I know that many kids watched both, but I never did. I probably saw every individual episode of Sesame Street in the late ’60s and early ’70s, but I’ve only watched a handful of Mr. Rogers episodes by the years. And some of those I watched as an adult to see what I missed.

Still, I have to disagree a bit with this article at

The Wall Street Journal Online. It pretty much says that Mr. Rogers is to blame for the attitudes that young adults have today and the entitlement they feel. The editorial uses examples from colleges (students asking for additional points and day for assignments) and from psychologists (kids shouldn’t signal adults by their first names).

Some of that advice is dead-on, but I think they’re blaming the wrong folks.

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