A cool article about how exacting Fred Rogers was about the language used on his show so that it wouldn't confuse or accidentally mislead kids: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/mr-rogers-neighborhood-talking-to-kids/562352/?single_page=true
I especially love the examples given.
One thing that I especially like about the Rogers language thing is the awareness that he was on TV and the limitations that imposed if he wanted to be trustworthy. "Your parents" ➡️ "your favorite grown-ups" because he can't know for certain who he's talking to. "X will tell you" ➡️ "X can tell you" because he can't speak for people he's never met and what they will or won't do, but he can talk about what they're capable of.
<<Rogers also wrote a song called “You Can Never Go Down the Drain” because he knew that drains were something that, to kids, seemed to exist solely to suck things down.>>
This was me until age, um
actually it's still me
