[Love2Swim]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

If Mr. Rogers was a required subject in every grade through 6th...it would eventually make America a much better place.

Agree. Our country needs the morality and conscience that Mr. Rogers was emblematic of.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by fw102807

I submitted a drawing to a contest on the Rex Trailer show and won a stamp collection. That was before Mr Rogers and I don't know why I posted this.

Because this stuff just brings back good memories!

[CFrance]

When Mr Rogers died in 2003, our two sons were 25 & 30. (We're all Pittsburgh natives, where Fred Rogers lived.) They both called me, from Michigan and Maine, devastated at the loss of their childhood icon.

Originally Posted by CFrance

Because this stuff just brings back good memories!

Thanks, I think you're right. It did bring back fond memories of when shows were nice.

[Schaumburger]

Originally Posted by Love2Swim

Agree. Our country needs the morality and conscience that Mr. Rogers was emblematic of.

Really liked the documentary. Although I was just a little on the old side to be watching "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" when it debuted in the late 1960's, I still enjoyed watching it. If more people had the compassion, humanity and decency of Fred Rogers, this world would be a better place.

[dotti105]

Fred Rogers’ Mom lived in Clearwater and he visited her often. We would see him and his Mom at the Carlouel Yacht Club on Clearwater Beach. All the kids always did a double take when they saw him. You can imagine! He was always very cordial and friendly and didn’t mind being recognized. I think his Mom was quite proud of him and didn’t mind the inturreptions.
He was also an ordained minister.

[My Daily Run]

Originally Posted by bilcon

Where have all the role models gone. Sad. My kids were mesmerized by him. Today's media would probably find something wrong with him anyway.

I saw the documentary and it was wonderful...my son sat so quietly when he watched Mr. Rogers. According to the documentary they did find many things wrong with Mr. Rogers one being that when he said "I like you as you are" people protested that by his words, children wouldn't grow to be anything more than they were because he "liked them as they were" REALLY...the world was crazy then too.

[tomwed]

He understood little kid fears. Remember the little song that went "you can never go down, you can never go down, the drain." I remember listening to a counselor or psychiatrist on NPR talking about a 4 year old who was afraid to fly. He said he would disappear. Eventually the doctor got to the bottom of it. I don't remember if they went to an airport. But the boy pointed out that if you watch a plane fly away eventually it disappears.

[tomwed]

watch this----it's from 1996 and includes Mr. Rogers and Bill Cosby. Everyone was aware that kids watch too much tv but there wasn't enough worth while children's tv. Who has time to think about that now?

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by tomwed

watch this----it's from 1996 and includes Mr. Rogers and Bill Cosby. Everyone was aware that kids watch too much tv but there wasn't enough worth while children's tv. Who has time to think about that now?

That is quite a long clip.

[tomwed]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

That is quite a long clip.

It is---but check out Hillary. Listen to Gore talk about science. Fred Rogers gives the best, most moving speech. His values shine through. At the time Cosby was Dr. Cosby who could not be held in higher regard.

[graciegirl]

Saw this wonderful film today with friends I dearly love and used several hankies.

I felt I had been on a retreat and won the lottery. If only more people could live their lives like Fred Rogers.

[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by tomwed

It is---but check out Hillary. Listen to Gore talk about science. Fred Rogers gives the best, most moving speech. His values shine through. At the time Cosby was Dr. Cosby who could not be held in higher regard.

Al Gore is anything but a scientist!

Bill Cosby is a serial rapist who drugged his victims.

[graciegirl]

He really saw that children's feelings were just as deep as adults and really talked to them about death and being frightened, and about being sad and mad and worried. He was very tuned in to small children and he spoke simply and he listened. He did the same for adults and was not understood very well sometimes. He was really smart and very kind and just one of a kind.

He was someone very special.