Timeless Oracle

How Mister Rogers became a timeless oracle of parenting wisdom

His inclusive, accepting approach elicited “utter and complete trust,” said Nicole Cliffe, a writer, mother of three and a parenting advice guru for Slate’s “Care and Feeding” column, in an email.

“He didn’t tell you how to parent,” Cliffe wrote. “He just treated children as worthy of your full attention. Which is very hard to provide, today more than ever. I’m terrible at it. Mister Rogers is constantly reminding me to put down my phone and look at them and hear the entirety of what they have to say to me.”

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