Didn't realize how much I needed this at almost 30, and now I'm crying in my living room. Thank you, Mr. Rogers, for being the best neighbor I could have ever asked for. ❤️
I was emotionally and physically abused as a child, I didn't watch Mr Rodgers growing up but it's a weird feeling at 19 years old to know that this is what I needed to hear as a kid. Not judgement, acceptance
That is Fred Rogers’ legacy to the world. To remind us that we deserve to be loved just the way we are. And if he were alive today, I’m sure that he would say the same, and that he’s proud of you exactly as you are right at this moment. 💜
Was sung often during the 1968 and 1969 seasons, only to disappear from the show afterwards. Presumably, this is because it was co-written with Josie Carey, and Fred Rogers did not have the rights to it (the same reason the closing song changed from "Tomorrow" to "Good Feeling"). The song "It's You I Like" debuted in 1971 with a similar message, and was also sung frequently for the rest of the run, effectively serving as a replacement for this song.
Just one of those rare humans with unconditional love for his entire race. He’s singing this with such love in his eyes, as if he were singing it directly to to his wife Joanne, but he projects that love out to everyone. I met him as a child. He’s not faking it. He’s the real deal.
Something young people don't know and old people like to forget is that while Fred Rogers was alive, he was mercilessly made fun of. The most common word people used about him was "creepy". There were rumors of every kind you can imagine and some you probably can't imagine. And those of us who defended him were accused of the same. Yet the very second the news came out that he was dead, all those people who made fun of him, spread rumors about him, called him "creepy" started fake-crying and claiming that they were always his biggest fan, anything to turn sympathy and attention onto themselves. As a little kid, I couldn't admit to watching him because I'd be tormented by not only my family but the kids at school, the kids at church, everyone. I had to keep it a secret. When my dad came home from work, if I was watching Mr. Rogers, he'd turn it off and laugh at me when I cried. I never once got to see the final episode of any Neighborhood of Make Believe segment. As an older kid, a teen, an adult, it definitely had to be a secret, along with the fact that I still watched Sesame Street every morning while getting ready for school and every afternoon when I got back from school. Of course he wasn't perfect. His show title notoriously has a grammar error that has misled generations of children to an incorrect way of writing possessive forms of names ending in the letter "s". He wasn't perfect. He was human. I was in college when Mr. Rogers died. Just the day before he died, I'd been the only defender in a classroom full of people making accusations about him and backing it up with his "creepiness", and they said that since I defend him I must be guilty of the same. But the next day, after his death was announced in the news, the class suddenly turned into poor-me students pretending that the previous day had never happened, expressing their deep trauma for losing someone they now pretend to have always loved. No, young people, he was not universally loved during his life, as you've been taught. Don't let him become another lie-saturated legend. If you're old like me, remember the truth about him. If you're young, learn the truth about him. He was bullied in all the worst ways, but he didn't let it affect how he did his show or how he lived his life. It isn't unique to him. It is common with people who die, whether they are well-known or just a neighbor in your town. While they're alive, nobody cares about them, and they're often treated badly. But once they're dead, "oh I loved her/him so much!" It's selfish to show public grief for someone who you never had a kind word for while they were alive. People need to treat people kindly while they are alive.
You’re right. When he was alive, I didn’t really watch him. Now after all these years, I realize that he was right all along. I understand how people don’t tend to appreciate what they have until it’s gone.
Didn't realize how much I needed this at almost 30, and now I'm crying in my living room. Thank you, Mr. Rogers, for being the best neighbor I could have ever asked for. ❤️
God Bless you. 💗
I am 41 listening to this. Mr Rogers has been gone 20 years. He is still correcting my thinking and easing my pain. May he continue to rip.
I was emotionally and physically abused as a child, I didn't watch Mr Rodgers growing up but it's a weird feeling at 19 years old to know that this is what I needed to hear as a kid. Not judgement, acceptance
That is Fred Rogers’ legacy to the world. To remind us that we deserve to be loved just the way we are. And if he were alive today, I’m sure that he would say the same, and that he’s proud of you exactly as you are right at this moment. 💜
Was sung often during the 1968 and 1969 seasons, only to disappear from the show afterwards. Presumably, this is because it was co-written with Josie Carey, and Fred Rogers did not have the rights to it (the same reason the closing song changed from "Tomorrow" to "Good Feeling"). The song "It's You I Like" debuted in 1971 with a similar message, and was also sung frequently for the rest of the run, effectively serving as a replacement for this song.
Just one of those rare humans with unconditional love for his entire race. He’s singing this with such love in his eyes, as if he were singing it directly to to his wife Joanne, but he projects that love out to everyone. I met him as a child. He’s not faking it. He’s the real deal.
Something young people don't know and old people like to forget is that while Fred Rogers was alive, he was mercilessly made fun of. The most common word people used about him was "creepy". There were rumors of every kind you can imagine and some you probably can't imagine. And those of us who defended him were accused of the same.
Yet the very second the news came out that he was dead, all those people who made fun of him, spread rumors about him, called him "creepy" started fake-crying and claiming that they were always his biggest fan, anything to turn sympathy and attention onto themselves.
As a little kid, I couldn't admit to watching him because I'd be tormented by not only my family but the kids at school, the kids at church, everyone. I had to keep it a secret. When my dad came home from work, if I was watching Mr. Rogers, he'd turn it off and laugh at me when I cried. I never once got to see the final episode of any Neighborhood of Make Believe segment.
As an older kid, a teen, an adult, it definitely had to be a secret, along with the fact that I still watched Sesame Street every morning while getting ready for school and every afternoon when I got back from school.
Of course he wasn't perfect. His show title notoriously has a grammar error that has misled generations of children to an incorrect way of writing possessive forms of names ending in the letter "s". He wasn't perfect. He was human.
I was in college when Mr. Rogers died. Just the day before he died, I'd been the only defender in a classroom full of people making accusations about him and backing it up with his "creepiness", and they said that since I defend him I must be guilty of the same. But the next day, after his death was announced in the news, the class suddenly turned into poor-me students pretending that the previous day had never happened, expressing their deep trauma for losing someone they now pretend to have always loved.
No, young people, he was not universally loved during his life, as you've been taught. Don't let him become another lie-saturated legend. If you're old like me, remember the truth about him. If you're young, learn the truth about him. He was bullied in all the worst ways, but he didn't let it affect how he did his show or how he lived his life.
It isn't unique to him. It is common with people who die, whether they are well-known or just a neighbor in your town. While they're alive, nobody cares about them, and they're often treated badly. But once they're dead, "oh I loved her/him so much!" It's selfish to show public grief for someone who you never had a kind word for while they were alive. People need to treat people kindly while they are alive.
You’re right. When he was alive, I didn’t really watch him. Now after all these years, I realize that he was right all along. I understand how people don’t tend to appreciate what they have until it’s gone.
No matter how well you play the games, it’s the trying that counts.
I'm here to cry.
Please post the song, "It's Good to Talk"
I wish I could buy this song
No matter my lives pain. He always made me feel loved and needed, important. Thank you Mr Roger’s . Always you made me feel safe. Thank you❤ sir❤
RIP FRED ROGERS 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Wow ths iis gem of a find! Thanks!
hi can you please post my favorite besides it's you i like let's be together today
Hey Betsey, this is the only Fred Rogers clip I have! If you search up the others you'll probably be able to find them :-)
@christostatsis4371 you don't have mister Rogers episodes do you
Hi Brad
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