Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?

It's hard for us and many of our parents to imagine growing up without Sesame Street. For years the show has endured as THE educational show for children. Fun songs and lovable muppets make learning a delight as children are taught everything from the alphabet to numbers to life lessons like being nice to kids who are different and not being afraid.

The show continues to prosper now just as it did in its days of infancy. Many songs from the older shows are inserted into the current episodes, much to the delight of older viewers who remember those songs from their childhoods. Who can forget "Rubber Ducky," "C is for Cookie," "Dancin' Myself to Sleep," "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ," "The Batty Bat," and other such fantastic songs?

The show can be watched from an entirely different point of view as an adult. Many of the stories make allusions to or are parodies of well-known works of literature or classic movies and tv. Recognizing the inspiration behind some of the segments makes watching "Sesame Street" all that much more fun.

"Sesame Street" has something in it for everyone. It is truly a show that parents and children can watch together and enjoy, even if they are enjoying different aspects of it. How incredible it is that so much can be found on one remarkable little street! From Grover's Diner with that unfortunate customer who can never get his order right to Guy Smiley's nostalgic "This is your Life" featuring a sock, from calmly chaotic Monsterpiece Theater to the "yep"-filled jaunts of floppy-mouthed aliens, from the Count's counting sprees to the Amazing Mumford's ill-fated "a la peanut butter sandwiches!", Sesame Street is brimming with entertainment and education, so delightfully blended that one can hardly tell which is which.

A stargazing Ernie mused one night, "...so if I should visit the moon, I would dance on a moonbeam and then I would make a wish on a star and I'd wish I was home once again. Though I'd love to look down on the Earth from above I would miss all the places and people I love. So don't be afraid 'cause I'm coming home soon 'cause I don't want to live on the moon." With "Sesame Street," children can travel to places beyond their wildest imaginings without ever needing to leave home, and they'll soon learn how to do the same even when they're not watching "Sesame Street". Parents can help foster their children's imaginations by watching this show with them and begin to reclaim their own. It is an hour very well spent.