Loaf of Bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as a cultural reference in discussions of children running errands alone and of Sesame Street.
What it is
A short classic Sesame Street clip in which a mother sends her young daughter to the store to buy a loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2016 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Cites dalke · 2016-08 · on “This Indiegogo campaign promotes child neglect. Here's my open letter to the CEO”
So, you're one of those anti-free range children/helicopter parents I read so much about? "A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter." - [this video] . That's what the US was like when I was a kid. Were they all bad parents then? As [LINK] points out, "By Western standards, Japanese culture emphasises independence and self-reliance from an extraordinarily young age." Do you think all of Japan practices child neglect?
Cites eesmith · 2017-12 · on “In Japan, small children take the subway and run errands alone (2015)”
What...?! This has nothing to do with monoculturalism or xenophobia. Probably not high work ethics either. Here's a bit of US history to show how things have changed. The TV show "Sesame Street" started in the late 1960s as a way to provide pre-school education to low-income and disadvantaged families. See [LINK] . One of the early clips is "Loaf of Bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter" - [this video] . In it, the mother sends her young daughter out, alone, to buy those three items from the local store. That account takes place in New York in the 1970s, a diverse city with many immigrants. While fiction, it's meant to educate children about what they might be expected to do. If you r