What Danes consider healthy children’s television
Kaj and Andreea is fantastic!<p>I&#x27;m Dutch but my wife is Danish. She does her utmost best confronting our kids with Danish TV (we live in Holland), so I understand a bit of what the author is on about. I was initially surprised as well.<p>Truth is, it _is_ entertaining! But most importantly, once you get past the absolutely amateuristic way things are shot (hey, the kids don&#x27;t care, why should you?), there&#x27;s a lot of depth to a lot of it. You need to let that depth sink in a bit before you can see the value of it.<p>For example, the article about Kaj and Andreea:<p><i>Probably most striking, though, is another thing lacking: education. Quite simply, there is none, academic or moral. “Kaj and Andrea”, a pair of puppets, are sweet friends, but also goofily flawed: Kaj is terribly self-obsessed, Andrea is warbling and neurotic. When other characters do something wrong, there is little of the obvious consequence-and-lesson resolution of American shows; the results are usually left to speak for themselves.</i><p>The lovely thing here is that it <i>is</i> educative, but it&#x27;s up to the watcher to draw the lesson. Kaj&#x27;s self-obsession is usually very funny and rather ridiculous. It teaches kids &quot;wow, it&#x27;s pretty ridiculous to be so self-obsessed&quot;. And at the same time it teaches kids that even if you&#x27;re flawed, that&#x27;s ok - both Kaj and Andreea appreciate one another and are appreciated and respected by the human co-hosts of their TV shows. This is something that I&#x27;ve not really seen anywhere else.<p>I&#x27;m not convinced that kids learn lessons like these better when it&#x27;s spelled out for them.