Teaching Won’t you please be my neighbor? In March, I told you about the first full-length documentary about the life and work of Fred Rogers. That film - Won’t you be my neighbor? - opened last week. Now those who worked with him are speaking up about his genius, and effect. His “placidity belied the intense care he took in shaping each episode of his program. He insisted that every word, whether spoken by a person or a puppet, be scrutinized closely, because he knew that children—the preschool-age boys and girls who made up the core of his audience—tend to hear things literally." Article: Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children