Sesame Street Creates Program Version About The War
 Friday, May 2nd, 2008

 
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Sesame Workshop - who owns Sesame Street - released a new Sesame Street Video called "Talk, Listen, Connect:  Deployment, Homecoming, Changes."  The video is for children who have a parent or parents that left for, or returned from the Middle East or the Iraq War, and addresses how children can deal with their emotions about it; even their emotions about parent returning with a war injury.  In it, Elmo says his father was deployed three times, and Elmo became sad and more dependent on his mother.

In both English and Spanish, the video will not be aired on television but instead distributed to schools, child care programs, and family support centers, or can be downloaded at www.militaryonesource.com/.

"This follow-on DVD to talk about the changes, dealing with new medical injuries - living in the 'new normal' - is tremendously important," said Army Col. Loree K. Sutton at the workshop launch.  Sutton is the chief of the new Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury.

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The "new normal???"  We're hoping a version of this makes it on Google Video or Youtube, because we're curious to see what the "new normal" supposedly is now.

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