PBS Kids Fangirl FTW!

By on June 8, 2010 Leave a Comment

When the marvelous blogger Karen Waldron of Chookooloonks called herself a ‘fangirl of PBS Kids‘ in the following video, I yelled out ‘ME TOO!‘ Like Karen, I have many fond childhood memories of PBS. Back in my day, PBS was one of the few channels that provided children’s programming during the weekdays and there were no dedicated children’s stations like the plethora we have to pick from these days. I sometimes wish that it was still that way *sigh*.

(Ed. note: wait, what? A WORLD WITH NO TREEHOUSE TV? SERIOUSLY?)

(Ed. note: okay, maybe, but only if it meant that there’d be a dedicated PBS Kids station. Also, the Internet.)

PBS Kids is pretty much perfect programming when it comes to kids, it has all that sneaky educational stuff hidden in a fun package and as Karen said in her video, two reasons to love PBS Kids:

  • The programming is a ‘media diet for her family‘ — commercial-free never looked so good
  • The programs are ‘smart about making it fun for parents to engage in it as well.‘ I couldn’t agree more: most of the programs have subtext that is chock full of wit that grabs viewers of all ages, making viewing a show fun for adults, too, and inspiration for ongoing conversation between parent and child.
  • No one asked me to write this post, I’m just seriously a full-on PBS Kids fangirl. I mean, you didn’t think I was disciplined enough as a parent to lead a television-free lifestyle with my child, did you? HA HA HA.

    Nope, we loves our television around here – and we especially love PBS Kids. Like Karen. So. WIN!

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    Katie blogs at her personal site motherbumper and is also co-founder of The Bad Moms Club. Add in an extremely active 6 year old and she figures she'll sleep when she’s dead.

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