Mr. Rogers: We Needed Him, but Maybe We Didn’t Deserve Him

I recently watched Won’t You Be My Neighbor, the documentary about Fred Rogers and his show on PBS. I grew up watching Mr. Rogers…

I recently watched Won’t You Be My Neighbor, the documentary about Fred Rogers and his show on PBS. I grew up watching Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. Many of us did. It ran from 1968–1976, and then from 1979–2001. He passed away in 2003. For many of us in the United States, Mr. Rogers was a familiar figure from our childhood. He was the voice of kindness we w…