Children's Programming

When I was little PBS was full of though provoking shows for kids that included shows about math and science. When I had Yes-Yes it had gone down but was still semi-interesting. Now with No-No there isn't anything on there that exposes kids to anything useful at an early age besides Sesame Street and even that's gone downhill. Okay there's Word Girl but it's so fast and squeaky that you can't even tell what they're saying anyway.

I owe many of my skills now to what I learned from PBS. I'm not sure there were many kids sneaking a late night session of Eureka when I was but man did it help in 8th grade when I got to physics! In fact, we had to watch all the episodes as part of our studies and I had seen them all already, how funny is that? In 5th grade it was Voyage of the Mimi which was about a kid and his grandpa who hosted a bunch of scientists studying whales. I think I was one of the only ones to know that Ben Affleck was the kid on that show when he hit it big!

It really is SUCH a shame to see PBS's programming going to such crap and I wish they'd bring back some of the old shows so my kids don't end up as stupid as some of the ones in the recent generations.