When my son was still in the newborn potato phase — all eyes and couldn’t roll over — I went to the Los Angeles Zoo with a friend and her toddler. They arrived several hours before we did in order to get in an endless line the second the zoo opened in order to do a meet and greet with Elmo.
God help me, I thought, if I ever get up at the crack of dawn to meet an overgrown puppet stumbling around in a sweaty fur suit. I told my friend as much, and she gave me a bemused look and said: “You’ll get it soon.”
Now that my son is almost five and I’ve been exposed to many, many hours of “Sesame Street,” I get it. It is magic. It’s been perfect since it started airing in 1969, tackling basic education and issues ranging from incarcerated parents...
God help me, I thought, if I ever get up at the crack of dawn to meet an overgrown puppet stumbling around in a sweaty fur suit. I told my friend as much, and she gave me a bemused look and said: “You’ll get it soon.”
Now that my son is almost five and I’ve been exposed to many, many hours of “Sesame Street,” I get it. It is magic. It’s been perfect since it started airing in 1969, tackling basic education and issues ranging from incarcerated parents...
- 10/14/2019
- by Ann Donahue
- Indiewire
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