Sesame Street Talks Divorce With Online Kits for Parents and Kids

The beloved children's television show Sesame Street is taking on the D-word for the second time in 20 years.

Abby Cadabby, a fuzzy, pink, fairy-in-training on Sesame Street, explains divorce by talking about her parents' separate houses in a 13-minute segment that can only be accessed online.

The children's show attempted to talk about divorce in 1992 with Snuffy telling Big Bird his dad was moving, but in small test groups, kids did not like it and the episode never aired. Now, for Abby, the divorce has happened in the past, so "it is not a new, raw emotion," says Sesame Street writer Christine Ferraro in the Tumblr Storyboard video above.

Not every child watching Sesame St…
Continue reading...

More About: Children, Families, apps, divorce, sesame street