By writing a show we enjoy and that makes us laugh, we are assured of never talking down to our audience. You can eat a whole cow if you do it one hamburger at a time. There is no principle, scientific or otherwise, so complicated that children cannot learn it. The trick is to break it down into bite-sized pieces that little minds can consume. It's also critical that we explain the little things that may seem terribly obvious to us, but are not to our youngest viewers.
All television is educational television when kids are watching.
Those powerful little brains are sponges, soaking up everything they see and hear on that small screen. But those little minds don't have the tools to discriminate between things worth learning and things not worth learning. If you doubt me, ask my son, Max, to recite TV commercials for our local Ford dealer. Since all television is educational whether we intend it to be or not, it's our job as parents to help our children choose the shows they watch. The things they learn from their local news show may not be.