> Here's what I don't get. I was raised on the Muppets, but I was also raised on Looney Tunes and Mickey Mouse, which brought up the generation before, and some of the generation before that. Not everything survives, of course. I wouldn't expect a kid today to know the comparatively recent Darkwing Duck, for example, but where is the endurance of the children's entertainment that's *supposed* to endure?

According to some friends of ours who are homeschooling their three children, a similar phenomenon is happening in the public library, where children's classics like "Ping the Duck" and "Blueberries for Sal" are no longer on the shelves. They've been replaced with books deemed to be more up-to-date and, possibly, more "progressive" as our culture currently defines the term. I don't know whether this is true of many libraries around the country, but our friends have stocked their house full of classics they picked up for cheap at library discard sales.

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