Kids r people too: Welcome To Kids R People 2 Academy!

Kids Are People, Too (TV Series 1978–1988)

Episode guide

• TV Series
• 1978–19881978–1988
• TV-GTV-G
• 1h 30m

IMDb RATING

7.8/10

52

YOUR RATING

FamilyTalk-Show

A teen oriented variety show.A teen oriented variety show.A teen oriented variety show.

IMDb RATING

7.8/10

52

YOUR RATING

• Stars
  • Sonny Melendrez
  • Billy Dee Williams
  • Michael Young

• Stars
  • Sonny Melendrez
  • Billy Dee Williams
  • Michael Young

• Awards
  • 1 win & 5 nominations

Episodes23

Browse episodes

5 years

19821981198019791978See all

Photos

Top cast

Sonny Melendrez

• Self – Host

Billy Dee Williams

Michael Young

• Self – Host

Irene Cara

Bob McAllister

• Self – Host

Stephanie Mills

Ralph Nader

Martha Lambert

Adam Rich

Isabel Sanford

Nipsey Russell

Fred Berry

Patti Smith

Reggie Jackson

Joseph Brooks

Gene Simmons

Paul Stanley

Ace Frehley

• All cast & crew
• Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

More like this

Wonderama

Storyline

Did you know

• Connections

  Referenced in Whew!: Episode #1. 169 (1979)

User reviews

Be the first to review

Details

• Release date
  • September 10, 1978 (United States)
• Country of origin
  • United States
• Language
  • English
• Filming locations
  • Elysee Theater, ABC TV-15, New York City, New York, USA
• Production companies
  • American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
  • Metromedia Producers Corporation (MPC)
• See more company credits at IMDbPro

Technical specs

• Runtime

  1 hour 30 minutes

• Color
• Sound mix

Related news

Contribute to this page

Suggest an edit or add missing content

Top Gap

By what name was Kids Are People, Too (1978) officially released in Canada in English?

Answer

More to explore

Recently viewed

You have no recently viewed pages

Kids Are People Too | Children AreThe Future

Welcome

The Kids Are People Too Family welcomes you!

Kids Are People Too

Educating The Future Leaders of Tomorrow

Kids Are People Too was founded in March of 1980 by Jamie Broussard, present owner and director.  This facility holds a Louisiana Type 3 License. The purpose of this program shall be to provide a home-like atmosphere, a full-day nursery school and preschool, and a before and after school program that will benefit the child, the parent, and the community. We provide opportunities to meet with and work with other parents and teachers who have as their common concern the 
interests and for our students we work hard to provide opportunities for meaningful play that is based on 
the child’s individual needs, interests, handicaps, and abilities, 
and that will build important foundations for future reading skills and other academic pursuits.

Frog Street is an early childhood educational publishing company, helping to guide the next generation of children to success through research-based curriculum, digital resources and professional development. For more information about this curriculum please click the link.

Click Here

Brightwheel’s easy-to-use website and app help families pay online, keep up with their child’s curriculum and more. For more information about this product please click the link below.

Click Here

To explore our exciting classrooms and learn more about our engaging curriculum please click on your child’s age.

Our Awesome Programs

The Star-Quality Program offers recognition to providers who exceed minimum licensing standards. Under the program, a provider can earn a rating of 1, 2, 3, or 4 stars. If a child care provider achieves 3 stars, the child care provider has achieved the highest quality standards and provides child care at the highest standard.

Kids Are People Too is a 4 star rated school.

Our Little Lambs class is our young infant class.

Our classroom guides and encourages our little ones to be more vocal, helpful, and kind.

This classroom develops social, emotional, and cognitive skills.

Our older toddlers classroom has endless engaging activities and easy to follow assignments to help our students grow and think for themselves.

They love to push buttons, wiggle their bodies and use all of their senses to figure out how things work.

Our classroom develops social, emotional, and cognitive skills.

This classroom has endless engaging activities and easy to follow assignments to help our students grow and think for themselves.

Our Lions Classroom strengthens reading and writing skills.

Our Stellar Reviews

Jennifer L.

My children have been a proud students of KAPT for 6 years. I love how much the kids learn without even knowing it! Everyone at KAPT has become part of our extended family. My sons love the experiments, playing outside and all of the field trips. Mrs. Jamie and her team always find new and exciting ways for the kids to learn no matter the age. I highly recommend this school to everyone. I would not leave my kids with anyone else. They treat the kids like they are their own which is amazing!

J.Rogillio

I wish there were a rating greater than five stars! My kids loved their years from babies to Pre-K at Kids Are People Too. The staff became family over the years, and the value you get is truly worth it. Mrs. Jamie is beyond helpful in working with you to accommodate your schedule, child needs, payment plans, etc. For those looking for reliable and nurturing childcare for their kids, this is the best in the area.

Brittany and Kevin T.

Our children have attended KAPT for 4 years and 2 years. We LOVE the amazing staff! My kids love pretty much everything about this school…they’re extremely excited to go to school every day. We highly recommend this school. The care and attention the staff gives to the kids is unmeasurable. The amount of knowledge my 5 year old has gotten from being in Pre-K here at KAPT is unbelievable. He blows us away daily from things he’s learned at school. The list goes on and on…

Gabrielle

My son tells me every day when I pick him up how much fun he had and how much he loves school. That right there says a lot! The staff is amazing and understanding. They genuinely care about your child! And I love how the area is set up as well. The playground is completely covered, and classrooms are divided appropriately.

Sara W.

I just teared up while I watched the videos from today, and Stephan told me all about his day this afternoon. We love KAPT so very much, and are so grateful for all you do for the kids. Sincerely. It is so evident that you put the kids firstand have the best interest at heart in all you do. Joseph was at two different daycares before he started school… Nowhere comes close to KAPT.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you offer Drop-In care?

We offer full time care only.

Does tuition include meals?

We offer breakfast, lunch, and 2 snacks.

Do you offer sibling discounts?

We do not offer sibling discounts.

How often does the students go outside?

Our students go outside daily when the weather permits.

Do you supply diapers and wipes?

Parents must supply diapers and wipes.

What are your hours of operation ?

We are opened from 6:45 am to 6:00 pm Monday – Friday.

What is your tuition ?

Tuition varies by scholars age. Please contact us directly for more information.

How can I pay tuition?

We accept tuition with Bright Wheel

Children are people too?

This creature believes that plants think and the sun shines only for him. Without prohibitions and punishments, his life is meaningless. Who is it?

Almost half of humanity consists of beings about which the other half knows very little. 2.2 billion is the number of children in the world, according to UNICEF. What do they think about, what do they feel, how, apart from appearance, do they differ from adults? And no matter how wild the question may sound: are they human?

“He who has never been a child cannot become an adult,” Charlie Chaplin once remarked. The problem is that few adults remember what it was like to be a child. This is especially true for parents and scientists. It’s even worse if the parent is also a scientist. Since both one and the second have a huge problem with the interpretation of the concept of children. They approach babies with adult measurements, and then get nervous when the kids don’t do what is expected of them.

What are these strange creatures?

“Play with your child. Do not perceive him as a person, observe him the way a biologist observes a crocodile or a bird, advises the Dutch biologist Midas Dekkers in his recently published book “The Larva. From child to person. “Look at how he does everything wrong, how strange he moves, what nasty things he likes, think about what controls him.”

Dekkers argues that a child cannot be treated as a full-fledged representative of homo sapiens. Childhood is a temporary stage, like a human larva, which then hatches into an adult. Is this the degradation of the child to a lower being? Of course not. “A larva,” Dekkers continues, “is a separate creature with a full right to exist.

You just have to realize that a child is different. If we tried to portray the classic image of a representative of the human race, it would probably not be a child. “A person is someone on two legs who on a Friday night wishes a pleasant weekend,” writes Dekkers, “angry when he is fired from his job and proud of his car. This is someone who can open their mouth when other adults are talking. If anyone asks us, we do not deny that babies are also people of flesh and blood. But there is something strange about their appearance that does not allow us at first glance to see them as representatives of our type, let alone treat them as adults. Why?

“We don’t have a memory that would allow us to remember what we felt as a child,” says Edita Grushczyk-Kolczynska, professor at the Warsaw Pedagogical Academy. – The child looks like a small person, so adults endow him with their way of thinking, their vision of the world. They do this because they can’t remember how they thought, understood when they were as old as their baby. Serious research is needed to understand how a child perceives the world. Although each of us was a child and looked at the world with children’s eyes. Only a very intelligent person, who knows that a child cannot have such knowledge, experience and emotions as he does, can come close to his level. And what about people who do not have this understanding?

There are two strategies. The first is the attitude to the child as to a small adult. The second is infantilization and neglect of the abilities and capabilities of a small person. I propose to focus on the first strategy, because it will clearly show us how children differ from people (adults).

Important Rules

“One of the episodes of “Supernanny” (a TV program in which a specialist teacher is invited to the family – a supernanny for “difficult” children. – Editor’s note) was attended by a single mother with a three-year-old son. The boy behaved like an adult,” says psychologist Dorota Zawadzka, known to many Poles as a television super-nanny. – He had to make important decisions, his mother asked him about everything: what to wear, what to cook for dinner, where to go for a walk? As a result, the child was confused. In order for the baby to feel safe, it is we, the parents, who must determine for him the world in which he must exist. When the opposite happens, the child does not understand what is happening, begins to get angry, and sometimes take advantage of the situation. With a baby, partnerships at the adult level should never be allowed. Children should not take care of us, but we should take care of them. The example of a super-nanny is extreme, but it often happens that parents try to treat their child like an adult, because. they think that in this case he will love and respect them more. It is very difficult for many parents to say “no” to their child, they are afraid of inflicting psychological trauma on the child, they are afraid of not being “good” for the child.

“When do you want to go to bed? What will you have for breakfast? Maybe you want to go for a walk?” – such questions are absolutely normal in relation to adults, and completely meaningless when we have a child in front of us. We need to get rid of the belief that if a child makes decisions from an early age, he will become strong, resourceful, decisive. Everything is exactly the opposite! If children are asked such questions from an early age, they feel uncomfortable.

— Clear rules, prohibitions are necessary for a child. Children need to define boundaries – this is possible, this is impossible. The boundaries that we outline to the child are life beacons, pointers, anchors that invariably allow you to navigate in the world of generally accepted norms, ”says psychologist Anna Brzezinskaya from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. If there are no such anchors, then the situation becomes dangerous, the world becomes unpredictable and unstable.

The lower the child’s cognitive level, the more difficult it is for him. This is clearly seen in the behavior of infants when their daily routine is disrupted. The child can predict with his mind the sequence of what is happening. The norms that determine what is possible and what is not for older children are the same as the daily routine for an infant.

Training, but with feeling

The stronger the iron grip, the more the child will achieve in life. “There is a certain amount of truth in this statement,” comments Dorota Zawadzka. “But we should not forget about feelings and respect towards the child. He cannot be beaten and humiliated, it is necessary to show your love, but at the same time require discipline. Some habits need to be developed at the level of reflexes, so that the word “stop” means “stop”, so that the child, for example, does not get hit by a car, so that “no” means “no”. I prefer explanations and conversations, but I think that this should be done in parallel with “training”, which teaches the child “do not touch”, “do not take someone else”, “no”, etc.

— Whether we like it or not, the methods I use in raising children are based on the discoveries of animal psychology. Once I was at a party attended by representatives of the American embassy. One of the officials came up to me and said that he had watched “Supernanny” and liked it very much and asked me to train his dog. Against this background, the medical joke that the pediatrician is the same veterinarian does not look so shocking. I asked Dr. Matej Kubiak about the reason for such “black humor”, to which he replied: a small patient, like animals, is not able to talk about what hurts him.

Medicine confirms that children and adults are different categories of living beings. Physicians-therapists treat children with a certain caution. This is a result of the fact that they may not respond adequately to many drugs and their symptoms may be atypical. For example, a common throat infection is not limited to the throat, it affects the whole body, so indigestion, vomiting, etc. appear. Children are physiologically not a small copy of an adult. This is the result of the fact that the child’s immune system is still weak. The resistance of his body is different, as well as the hormonal background, metabolism, so children have a normal temperature, which in an adult can indicate a serious illness.

A problem with the treatment of children arises from the fact that, for ethical reasons, clinical trials are not conducted on them. For this reason, the effect of a number of drugs has not been studied and side effects are unknown.

The sun is shining for me

Studies of the worldview of children surprise adults. “A child’s mind is a mystery to scientists,” says Professor Gruzchik-Kolchinskaya. We are carefully studying it. One of the most famous researchers of children’s thinking was the French scientist Jean Piaget. Thanks to him, we know how children comprehend the world. And these are very interesting ideas. The sun shines to keep me warm; the sky is angry, therefore there is a storm; flowers grow to be beautiful.

Scientists wouldn’t be scientists if these simple childish notions hadn’t been changed into cunning formulations. Children’s thinking is characterized by egocentrism, arteficialism, and animism. And now this is easier. First, children want to see everything from their point of view—egocentricity. They are sure: everything that surrounds them was made by people, so it can be canceled as soon as they want it – artificalism. And, finally, animals and plants feel and think, inanimate objects have animation – animism.

– When I did research on the thinking of children, I looked at them as beings who develop like me, but at each stage of development they differ from me and my way of thinking. Taking a child seriously does not mean treating him like an adult. On the contrary, one must look at the world through his eyes. We must take children’s questions seriously, accept their doubts as natural, and not compare them with our own. Our task is to help the child move to the next stage of development, but at his pace, using his capabilities. It should not be surprising that a child does something wrong, such as painting purple leaves when he is five years old. An adult does not understand why a child cannot lace up shoes. After all, it’s so simple. But if the baby cannot do this, then it’s not so easy. Criticizing the child, we lower his self-esteem. Adults expect that the kid, when he has a certain task, will go through the same intellectual algorithm that an adult would go through.

For example, a child is asked to take away two fish from five. Five fish are visually shown to him, and then three whole and two skeletons. Someone ate two fish, adults suggest. They don’t understand that kids don’t think like that. For them, two skeletons, this is something that can neither be taken away nor multiplied. The kid thinks in other categories. Weird?

Let’s take off our adult glasses. A child is not a small adult. Then who? Human larva? A larva that will turn into a human. We very often treat children with disdain, saying: the child knows very little about the world of adults. Maybe we can finally admit that it’s mutual. It’s a pity, because this is valuable knowledge. Because thanks to this knowledge, it is possible to raise much better adults from our children.

Children are people too! TV presenter Andrey Maksimov on how to understand a child | education | SOCIETY

SPB.AIF.RU chose the most interesting practical advice from Maksimov.

Reaching out to parents

“I love Petersburg, my third wife lived here, with whom I lived for 24 years. My son was born in this city, I remember the indescribable feeling when I left the Otto clinic with a child in my arms, the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Neva were visible nearby. Therefore, I have a special relationship with this city and I am very pleased that it was here that my books “Daddy’s Tales” and “Children are like a mirror” were published. The first book is addressed to dads who understand that in addition to work, they also need to take care of their children. I invite adults to invent fairy tales for children and tell them how to do it.

“Children are like a mirror” is a continuation of my crazy attempts to reach out to parents so that they stop doing what they do with their children. We have a country where the most unfortunate people are children. The child is completely helpless, anyone can reprimand him. Let me give you an example: if someone says that my hair is too long, then this is rudeness. And if you tell a child that he is poorly dressed, then this is education. The difference in attitudes towards adults and children just pisses me off. I see with my own eyes how parents, often good, responsible, loving, spoil the lives of their children. I hope that adults will change their attitude towards the younger generation and stop mocking them.”

“In addition to parents, the education of teenagers should be done by the school. Is she fulfilling her purpose?

“We must admit that there is simply no education system in our country. The school should solve two problems: to help the child understand that learning is great. And help him find his calling. The school does neither. Therefore, if parents want their children to be happy, educated, smart, they must do it themselves. Many people say: we don’t have time! To this I answer: do you guys grow tomatoes in the country? Vegetables take time, but a baby doesn’t? The country has good schools and amazing teachers. They are trying to sow the reasonable. But in general, the education system is in a state of constant reform, that is, repair. As a result, school is hard labor for children. From the 5th to the 11th grade, the child does not learn anything except how to answer the questions of the tests correctly.

Andrei Maksimov Photo: AiF / “Education is two things: one’s own example and conversation.”

“What advice would you give to teachers who have to work in such an imperfect education system?”

“The most important thing is to see people in children. It just seems to be very simple. For example, when a student comes to me and says: “I can’t study today, I have an affair,” I understand him. I ask: how much do you need to wake up, a week is enough? But it’s hard to imagine a situation when a third grader comes up to a teacher and says: I don’t want to study today because I’m tired. Are there many teachers who will enter into the position of a child?

Parenting is not violence

“What do you say to parents who are too busy to find time to spend with their children?”

“I suggest that they do not be shy and write in their diaries the item: meet the child. There is nothing to be ashamed of. Many people live according to a schedule, and if they don’t mark “talk to their son” in the morning, they won’t do it. As a result, as Zhvanetsky says, parenthood turns into a bird profession: he ran, brought something in his beak, threw it away, flew away. There are many such parents. My children have always known that I am always available. Even if there is a shooting or some important meeting, then when they call, I interrupt business and talk. I think it’s right.”

“What should we talk about with children, because we are so different?”

“Yes, about everything! About their problems, about their own. With any children from two years old, you can talk about what worries the parent. And don’t be shy! Something is happening at work, so talk about it, you care about politics, talk about politics. If we want children to be sincere with us, then we must be the same. After all, they are learning from us. The most telling example is when a family comes to the toy store, the child falls to the floor and starts yelling: buy a car. How does he know that if he falls on his back and yells, they will buy him a toy? So, once the parents have already done it. So in this case, you need to step over the child and he will not do this again.

“Children are people who have their own characteristics.” Photo: www.globallookpress.com

We must tell children about our problems if we want them to share their experiences. We have adults: smart, earning, conscious. And there are such sub-humans – children, whom the majority treat as some kind of underdeveloped creatures that will someday begin to live. We need to get out of this generally accepted coordinate system and understand that children are people who have their own characteristics. If you realize this, then there will be no problem about what to talk to them about.”

“Should children be educated, to hammer different truths into their heads?”

“First of all, you need to talk to a child. Education is two things: one’s own example and conversation. Why do most people try to authoritatively raise children? Yes, because it’s fast! To say – do not do this is much easier and faster than to explain for a long time. There is another good principle: you should go to children not with answers, but with questions. After all, what do we say: “go do your homework”, “go eat”. Try asking a question and see how children’s perception changes: “Do you know what will happen if you don’t do your homework?” “Do you understand what will happen if you don’t eat?” Give children the opportunity to exist on their own. Education should be a conscious process, not violence.”

The right to make a mistake

“How to notice a vocation in a child and should you try to do it?”

“One of the greatest educators of the 18th-19th centuries, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, believed that one should find a calling at the age of 5-7. A vocation is not a way to make money, it is a desire. If you want to be happy, then work, like husband and wife, must be chosen for love, and not for convenience. When a child is 5 years old, it is necessary to offer him various options for developing interests: sports sections, drawing, music school. Then you need to set more complex tasks for the child. If it’s his business, then they turn them on, if not his, then he discards them. And do not tell the child in this case that he is a stupid lazy person. As a result of the research, there is a case that the child needs. In the process of searching, the child must be explained that the vocation should be directed to others. Playing on a computer cannot be a calling, but making computer games can! And do not forget that children have the right to make mistakes. Understanding a child’s calling is the hardest thing. But if it succeeds, it removes a huge number of problems. For example, many hours of sitting at the computer.

“But how to deal with the fact that children do not read? Why did gadgets replace reading for children?

“I don’t see a problem with children not reading books.