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Series · Disney+ · 2022

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Gracie's Corner

58Watch it awake.

Songs a very young child can use. Not a story. A good ten minutes, then stop.

The review

Gracie's Corner is a music teacher that looks like a cartoon. Counting, kindness, a family, a body that has to wait its turn. There is no plot to measure beyond whether the lyric tells the truth to a three-year-old. Most of them do.

Use it the way you would use a hymn for the very young: one, with a person in the room, then the actual brushing of teeth. A queue of them is a bright noise. A single one can be a tool.

Journal

Keep Gracie's Corner in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood

73 instead of 58

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is still a kids show, and it scores 73 instead of 58. What you gain is household: The family is intact, affectionate, and in charge.

The eight

6
Industry
Learning a song is a small craft, repeated.
7
Household
Family is in the lyric. Parents are the implied audience.
4
Piety
Thanks and kindness, aimed low and clear.
3
Courage
No danger. The bravery is trying the word.
5
Republic
Sharing is the civic lesson, at preschool size.
8
Temperance
Waiting, whispering, one thing at a time.
7
Truth
The facts are simple and not faked: numbers, colors, a feeling named.
6
Stewardship
A song is one of the few things a small child can carry into the day.

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Series · Disney+ · 2018

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9-1-1

58Watch it awake.

People who answer the call. The disasters are opera. The job is still a real one.

The review

The fantasy disasters are absurd, and the series knows you know. Under them is a truer picture than most shows will sit with: a dispatcher who stays on the line, a firefighter who goes back in, a city that works only because some people answer. The personal plots are soap. The work, when they let it be work, is the reason the show is not empty.

Older teens can watch an episode with you and then you should tell them about a real emergency you know, which was smaller and not choreographed. Admire the answering. Do not admire the tornado.

Journal

Keep 9-1-1 in the record.