Many of Rogers' biggest lessons now apply to my world as a parent.

File this under things so lovely, we never even considered them possible: A movie about Mr. Rogers is in the works. It's nearly the best Mr. Rogers-related thing I can imagine happening, second only to actually being able to have a trolley-tunnel wall in my house. The script's story line is currently under wraps, but I think we can all presume that it's uplifting and we'll laugh and cry and zip up our cardigans and cry some more. Mr. Rogers always made us feel safe, didn't he? Except for that one time, out of nowhere, he brought up going down the drain. I'd never even thought I could go down the drain before that moment, but believe you me, I was thinking about it for a long time afterward. OMG, I found it: That really messed me up. My mom had to use serious hostage-strategy tactics to negotiate me into the tub. Yes, I always preferred Mr. Rogerisms less grounded in reality. Like this one: Source Anyway, I'm sure we can all agree that this might be the hardest role to cast of all time. His face is so iconic, I can't imagine anyone coming close to looking like him.

Fred Rogers has been doing the same small good thing for a very long time...

Mr. Rogers never threw away a single drawing or letter that a child sent to him.

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Even Koko the Gorilla loved him.

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