I am a parent of a 12 year old boy, are you a parent?
Yes, I have a daughter that is getting ready to turn 4
My son loves Spongebob SquarePants and he watched the 2015 SpongeBob SquarePants 400. 
My daughter is a little young for spongebob.  She's more into sesame street and daniel tiger's neighborhood.
Sesame Street is a great show, it is both educational and fun to watch. 
It really is.  I had forgotten how great it is until she got old enough to watch it.  They have the special guests that keep the parent's attention.
in 1996 they did a study and it showed that 95% of children had watched Sesame street. That is an astounding number!
That is an incredible amount of children.  Did your son watch Sesame Street when he was younger?
on their young viewers' cognitive skills, while addressing their affective skills indirectly, because they believed that focusing on cognitive skills would increase children's self-esteem and feelings of competency. They sought to prepare young children for school, especially children from low-income families. The show's producers used modeling, repetition, and humor to fulfill their goals. They made changes in the show's content to increase their viewers' attention and to increase its appeal. They encouraged "co-viewing" to entice older children and
of the series and said "If I'd been told a year ago that I would be playing SpongeBob today I would have loved it, although I'm not sure I would have believed it." Coxon admitted it was difficult to adapt the show into a musical. He remarked "It is difficult because you are trying to recreate this character that is so fluid on screen. For example I'm just getting used to my square costume, although it does have an incredible design, so that, although I am restricted