The New Fall Line-up

As excited as I am for a new season of my favorite shows (Lost, Gray’s Anatomy), there has been a new line-up in TV that had me practically shaking in anticipation – PBS’s new kid shows!

I should preface this with a little explanation. We were always a Playhouse Disney family when Little J was younger. He did love his Wiggles and Mickey Mouse! As he got older, the shows didn’t provide quite enough substance to hold his interest. (With a big exception for the new Imagination Movers show – we all are loving that one!!)

Then we discovered PBS. Little J fell in love with the preschool shows: Word World, Word Girl, Curious George, Dragon Tails. The problem was that before we knew it, he had seen all of them. Since the kid has a memory like an elephant, he had no interest in watching them more than once.

Thank God for the new fall line-up. Sid the Science Kid and Martha Speaks have again sparked his interest and added to his vocabulary. Seriously, he spent half an hour yesterday talking about looking at bugs through a magnifying glass after seeing it done on Sid.

Well done PBS!