‘Sesame Street’ to teach kids about when Mommy goes to prison

NY Post ^ | 6/12/13 | KATE SHEEHY

[Nachum]

It’s brought to you by the letter P — for prison.

PBS’s “Sesame Street” is moving from ABCs and counting numbers to offering its young viewers a bigger lesson in life: how to cope when Mommy or Daddy lands behind bars.

Called “Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration,” the program is distributing “tool kits’’ to schools, community centers and even jails in 10 states — including New York — starting today to help kids ages 3 to 8, organizers said.

According to one “tip’’ for caregivers, “Before you visit your incarcerated loved one, let your child know some of the things she can expect to happen. For instance, ‘We won’t be able to sit in the same room with Mommy, but we can see her through a window and read a story together.’ ’’

“Phone calls are a great way to reach out,’’ another offers. “Help your child to think of something she’d like to tell her incarcerated parent, and give her a photo of her parent to hold during the call.”

[Nachum]

Today our show is brought to you by the letter "P".

P is for Prison. And P is for Parole.

And also for the letters F. B. I.

[Kirkwood]

And by the numbers 10 to 20.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How about when Mommy and Daddy go to re-education camp? Brought to you by the letters F, E, M and A.

[Mastador1]

I’m gonna go out on limb here and guess that this not primarily directed at the CAUCASIAN kids.

[Telepathic Intruder]

And remember kids, Big Bird also lives in a giant cage.

[TexGrill]

Is Sesame Street trying to give us a hint about Michelle Obama or Hldabeast?

[DustyMoment]

Fortunately, I have no children or grandchildren young enough to watch that dreck.

‘Cause they’d never see it at my house!

[mylife]

The New Normal.

“N”

[Telepathic Intruder]

Well it is public programming.

[Darnright]

Oh, lovely. Let’s frighten countless kiddies by inserting the fear that Mommie or Daddy might just get dragged off in chains.

Yes, that’s the ticket.

[FlingWingFlyer]

They’re going to need a Tickle Me David Allen Coe puppet.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Tell her mommy is in the zoo.

[ConservativeStatement]

From Oscar the Grouch’s trash can to the can. Progress!

[onedoug]

She’s gotta watch the old stuff.

[SpaceBar]

I'm probably gonna get flamed for this, but I find the “behind the glass” practice between incarcerated mothers and their young children, if the offense is relatively minor and unrelated to child endangerment, a bit medieval and barbaric. How difficult would it be to thoroughly check for contraband and supervise the visit so they can have normal human contact?

[Berlin_Freeper]

Sesame Street needs a new title song.

Come and play, everything's a-okay....

[Berlin_Freeper]

For normal human contact you need normal humans.

[Bullish]

And the letter ‘C’ is for ‘ Crack Ho’

[SecondAmendment]

Please stop referring to them as prisoners, from now on they are to be referred to as disenfranchised voters.

[boop]

There was a Dave Chapelle routine on how Sesame Street teaches kids horrible lessons.

He says: "Oscar? He lives in a trash can. He's a bum. We're teaching kids to step over homeless people. Just walk on by, he's a grouch!"

And Sesame Street even has a pimp, The Count. He has a cape and everything.

"Where is my money, you ho? HOW many times must I hit you? One, two, three...times"