Sesame Street season one. Not suitable for children.

[SheilaT]

3. I'm a very inbetweener.

I was an adult by the time Sesame Street showed up, and my first child was born in 1982.

I never had that show on for my kids. Partly because I was VERY restrictive and particular about what my kids could watch, and partly because by then I'd noticed that Sesame Street very much encouraged a short attention span. Yes, I know that they say it's in response to what was already going on, but it honestly seems to me as if they are very largely responsible for it.

In the end, my kids wound up with much longer attention spans than their age mates. All of the kids in question come from middle class or upper middle class homes with the accompanying privileges. I hdo think that the attention span thing is something that can very much be laid to the feet of Sesame Street.