PBS Fires Mom for her tawdry past? Oh C'mon! This is silly.

Let me just say we love PBS, but right now we do not like its behavior.

A recent decision made by PBS to fire Melanie Martinez ,a children's show host, reminds Aviva and me as to why we wrote this commentary for The Mothers Movement Online.

Parents deserve to devote a part of our identity to being adults, we were adults prior to being parents, we are adults as we parent our children and we are going to be adults after our kids become adults themselves. There will be a time when we might share some of our adult past with our kids at an age appropriate for them to know. There may be stories about our past we NEVER share with anyone ,especially our children. Who here finds that to be a shocking revelation? Parents, pick up the phone, send an email, take pen to paper and let us enlighten PBS.

PBS KIDS Sprout
PO Box 59269
Philadelphia, PA 19102-9997
215-320-5891
info@sproutletsgrow.com


If PBS is not concerned about what Ms. Martinez did in her previous years as much as they are concerned with who will see it now, the question must be asked "Why?" Does PBS really think toddlers will be checking their email to see if this has been forwarded to them by their playgroup?

It seems to us, here at Parentopia, it is far more reasonable to expect people live their lives as they do, eventually become parents and have a "history". It does not seem reasonable to conclude all people will share this history with their offspring, other children and the rest of the free world. I would guess it is a miniscule minority of parents who would choose to announce to their child "Oh look pumpkin, that's the woman from the Anal Sex parody!"

Instead of making a wild assumption that parents are incapable of deciding what we tell our children about their beloved PBS program host. Let us live on the edge and make an even wilder assumption that parents can decide for themselves what they tell their children about the world we live in and what they see in it. We think PBS didn't just fire an employee, they fired off a judgment about the state of today's parenting.

You all know what I will do next about this blog entry? I am going to have my 6 year old son read it, check the links to see if they work and then forward it to his 10 year old brother.