"In America you're not allowed to talk about how motherhood is driving you crazy, or how you don't like it, or how, if you have to give a bath one more time, you're going to pull your hair out...You can complain about your job, your husband, your friends, but God forbid you complain about your kids."
-- Felicity Huffman
I just read this article about how the original Sesame Street episodes are coming on to DVD. This is great news, I thought, because I have always wanted to show my kids the Sesame Street of my youth.
However, it seems that the DVD has been labelled as "adult material." As the article explains, it is shocking how times have changed -- almost too shocking. For example, a little girl named Sally meets Gordon (a stranger) on the street and follows him home for some milk and cookies. It makes one realize how much we've lost. Maybe it is best that a parent explain to a young child that, unfortunately, some things just aren't the same anymore.
I miss those simpler, carefree days. Life has become much more complicated.
We stopped watching Sesame Street last year when they started politicking about the plight of orphans in Cambodia and about the homeless and AIDS victims in other third world countries. One character named Gina (a single woman) even adopted a baby out of wed-lock. It was just too much to explain to my kids -- when everything on Sesame Street in the past was, by nature, self-explanatory. The show used to deal with abstract yet relevant subjects like sharing, friendship, and cooperation, along with the practical subjects like the alphabet and numbers. Sesame Street used to be educational and fun, without the "complicated" issues of Angelina Jolie. Let the grown-ups deal with all that.
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to (the old) Sesame Street?
With the holidays coming up, it looks like we have yet another thing to worry about besides overcrowded malls and overpriced toys. Santa, it seems, is not politically-correct enough.
According to a recent article in Yahoo! News, Santas in Sydney, Australia have been told to stop using the traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women. One Santa, the article states, was told "it could frighten children and was too close to 'ho', a U.S. slang term for prostitute."
*Also see what Sweepea thought of this article.
"If you're asking, 'What exactly does a Hollywood star with children do?' then I'll tell you. I'm nurse maid, laundry maid, cook, cleaner, playmate, you name it. Oh yeah, and I'm a chauffeur too."
-- Jodie Foster
"There's a whole industry out there trying to make mothers feel retarded. Everyone tries to make you need stuff. Just get a buggy and some nappies. Everything else is just crap."
-- Cerys Matthews
"Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children." -- Doris Day
