Big Bird Evacuated from Nest
A couple days a week, I work for 3 hours and watch kids for the rest of the day. During the time that I'm working, I sometimes allow them to watch television or a movie. Today, I allowed them to watch Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow.
What I had not anticipated is that PBS might be attempting to help kids process hurricane Katrina. Thus, Sesame Street had a hurricane today. The power went off, Big Bird's nest got ruined, and he'll have to live with Gordon.
Once that was over, Reading Rainbow came on. The topic for today? Hurricanes. Thus, Abby has been talking about hurricanes for the last three hours.
I don't know what came on after that (I had Abby turn off the tv), but I fully expect that if I allow them to watch Arthur this afternoon, I will find that Elwood City (Arthur's hometown) has been demolished.
Comments
The Big Bird disaster has been re-run several times. They originally did it for a hurricane long ago, and then they reran it after 9/11, and have done so several times since.
Posted by: Topher | September 13, 2005 5:08 PM
Really? That's amusing. Clearly I don't know my Sesame Street episodes well enough.
Posted by: Jim Zoetewey | September 13, 2005 7:19 PM