The Raw Story | FOX News asks: Did Mr. Rogers destroy an entire generation?

The Raw Story | FOX News asks: Did Mr. Rogers destroy an entire generation?


I really have to draw the line at this. While I think there are a lot of prima donnas on the block today, and im sure amongst my own age as well (gen xish, judging from the 30yr midlife crisis's im starting to see), I also can't rationalize some professor taking pot shots at the one guy that was a father figure/friend for many of us growing up. There were kids that I grew up with that spend more time with PBS than with their fathers, and I I was one of them. ( I had grandpa making guns and cannons in the basement to look up to, though-dad was stationed in Germany so he had an excuse. Hundreds of thousands of latch-key kids weren't so lucky)

Being told that you are special just the way you are is not a bad thing-fostering an attitude of you are more special than anyone else is the problem-that and the disconnect between parenting and being a friend.