This matters so so much. I have gone to Sesame Street myself for help. The special on divorce helped me explain to my four year old how like the bird muppet we were watching, mom’s nest is here and dad’s is over there. Two different trees, two different nests, two homes, one family. All hers. It helped me! And Gordon…

When Mr Hooper died... “We all feel sad, Big Bird.”

Only if mom is pregnant again! Otherwise S is definitely for Suboxone. (And increasingly it’s indicated for pregnant patients too.)

r u ok 

Gotta love when shitfits emerge from people not reading the full story or take it out of context 

You seem upset.

This is the kind of dark joke I don’t mind. Some of the other jokes people were trying to make on here just came off as hateful.

I remember when the HIV positive muppet premiered people were freaking the FUCK out. They failed to get all the information before having a shitfit though. That muppet premiered on the South African version of Sesame Street. South Africa has the highest infection rate of HIV in the world.

Yeah, part of me was a bit taken aback by this as this sounds like almost a parody, and how many “categories” do they have to cover: muppet with HIV,a homeless character, one with a parent in prison- but those kids need somewhere to learn to deal with those things, and Sesame Street is second to none in tackling those…

Have you ever watched Sesame Street? For 50 years they have actively been tackling hard issues like this that children have to deal with. They have never been shy about talking about hard topics in  ways that children can understand, and offer ways to help those children work through their feelings. Grow up. 

I think its stunning and brave

The Sesame Workshop has a kit for children with parents who are incarcerated. Its available on the website. 

Does anyone know if there are any characters that have parents in prison? I remember reading an article about “inappropriate” children’s books (some of which were in fact WILDLY inappropriate) but people were dragging a book about the night “daddy went to prison” which, at least to me, seemed like it could be a very…

This is amazing, and I have to say that the sheer volume of research they do for Sesame Street is astounding.

The source article made me tear up.

this is pretty incredible. 

It is heartbreaking this needs to be a thing. I’m happy there is such a progressive show for kids though. 

It’s still available on PBS, just a few months after it airs on HBO.

S is for Subutex 

This is nice.