How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is simply illusion.
You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
Fred is the father of Jim and John Rogers.
The Pittsburgh Penguins, an NHL hockey team, made Fred Rogers an honorary captain in 1993.
Fred wrote all the songs on the show as well as the special operas.
Fred has about 25 sweaters which he has worn over the years of the program.
Fred speaks French as well as English.
In 1990, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
Fred was 6' (1.83 m)
He attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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