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It didn’t even occur to me at the time that I was using the same language the grown-ups on “Sesame Street” had used to help Big Bird and 6-year-old me understand Mr. I tried to help him understand the permanence of the situation. The well-meaning adults, lost in their own grief, used flowery language - “she’s resting in peace,” “she’s passed on,” “she’s gone.”Īs tears streamed down his face, my cousin called out for her and wanted to see her again. I remember my younger cousin, who was about 7 years old, struggling to understand and cope with her passing. I was 18 years old when my grandmother, who was the heart of my family, died. These lessons carried with me throughout my life and shaped my relationships with others. But I also learned about helping others, community and what to do with all of the big feelings that took over my little body. My friends on “the street” taught me my ABCs and 123s, of course. There is much more beneath the surface of “Sesame Street“‘s curriculum-based programming, too. I didn’t know that these amazing characters would prepare me to raise my own child during the rough times we’d face over the past few months.īest moments from CNN and Sesame Street's second coronavirus town hall for kids and parents The Muppets helped me get through the lean times and sang along with me when I celebrated any small victories. Just like the characters, I studied theater in college, moved to the Big Apple to make my dreams come true and even started doing stand-up comedy, just like my hero, Fozzie Bear.įriendship. Seeing “The Muppets Take Manhattan” when I was 7 changed my life. I wanted to be a flower girl when she married Luis on “Sesame Street.”Īnd then along came the movies, which sealed my lifelong obsession with Jim Henson’s Muppets. Maria (played by actress Sonia Manzano) looked and sounded like one of my aunts. There was even a lady named Maria who was Puerto Rican, just like my family. Growing up with “Sesame Street” in the early 1980s, I found pieces of myself in Cookie Monster’s sweet tooth, Big Bird’s gentleness and in Grover, who was outgoing and always willing to help others, even though he made a lot of hilarious mistakes.
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