Yeah, the '70s was not a good time to be a kid.
#The magic garden story box full
The outside world was full of Roman Polanski raping 13-year-old girls and endless repetitions of "Yours is the first generation that's going to not do better than your parents". I'm not surprised that we as a generation love our Saturday morning cartoons and Magic Garden. The book 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? pointed out specifically how and why it was a fucked up time for our generation to be kids. Never forgot the "Fox & Crane Dinner" story, our it's message of "Don't be a douchebag, because what goes around comes around" (I paraphrase). Posted by zarq at 11:44 AM on January 13, 2010
Barney does some of this to a lesser extent, but it's just not as engaging. The hosts would greet their viewers by name. TMG had stories, songs and games which were focused directly at the viewer, so they could feel like they were part of the story. But from my perspective as a parent, I'm convinced it won't really stimulate my kids' imaginations the way The Magic Garden did. The show is relentlessly upbeat, vaguely educational and has some catchy, repetitive and easy-to-remember tunes. I watched 6 or 7 episodes of Barney on OnDemand about a month ago. They also sometimes watch a show called " Bounce."
#The magic garden story box tv
Right now they're watching a handful of Baby Einstein videos, Jack's Big Music Show and Sesame Street as well as Dora and the WonderPets, primarily because they get only a half hour of tv each morning and night, and the latter two are what's on Nick Jr. I've been watching a lot of programs aimed at preschoolers lately, because my kids are turning two and we're trying to figure out what shows we want to introduce them to. Why does she not think that there will be adults who remember Barney just as fondly as some today remember the Magic Garden? “I don’t think Barney is going to get any fan letters like we did.” posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing (36 comments total)Īlso, when I was a small child, I thought the Magic Garden was puerile, too (although I sincerely doubt that I knew the word "puerile"). “You’re taking them back to that time and place where things must have been really rough, and you were a little circle of warmth and safety that they’ve never forgotten,” she said. Janis said she now understood why fans had so much invested in “The Magic Garden.” “ ‘I grew up better because of you.’ ‘I had a terrible childhood, and my only half-hour a day of friendship was with you.’ ” “They say things like, ‘I became a musician because of you,’ ” she said. Over the years, Ms Janis said, fans have passed along much weightier messages that are sometimes difficult to hear.
Demas and Janis are still performing as a folk duo, but as a recent NYT article pointed out, adult fans are more psyched about songs from The Magic Garden: From the opening theme to the closing song, Carole Demas and Paula Janis transformed a small TV studio into half an hour of childhood glee, replete with jokes, acting out stories (or simply telling stories), singing songs, and saying "hello" in a different language.
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