> > Here's what I don't get. I was raised on the Muppets, but I was also raised on Looney Tunes and Mickey Mouse, which brought up the generation before, and some of the generation before that. Not everything survives, of course. I wouldn't expect a kid today to know the comparatively recent Darkwing Duck, for example, but where is the endurance of the children's entertainment that's *supposed* to endure?

The bottom line in all this is something you said in your first email, Sam. It is the parent's responsibility to teach our children NOT the entertainment industry. Does that mean that fairy tales and Muppets are bad? Of course not! It means that I moniter every single thing I allow my son to watch. At three and a half he if very impressionable. If something was special to me as a child like Muppets, I make sure he sees it. As for todays cartoons, many of them don't make the cut. We watch more videos than we do actual television. We do this for two reasons, 1. a video is easy to turn off and on, 2. there is no next show to tempt him after a video; it is just over. Jonathan isn't quite ready for Bambi yet. Again that doesn't make it bad in my eyes just not appropriate for him at this time.

Mrs_Grishny