Yay! for the good-hearted little person
My daughter has her first fangirl crush. She is in love with the Wild Kratts (Chris and Martin Kratt are brothers and zoologists-they have an animated show on PBS). As little ones have done forever she wrote them a fan letter. The only problem...they don't take fan mail. They don't even have a fan club to send it too. After researching and finding this bit of info out from the internet I set her down and explained. And she cried...and cried...and cried.
So I took her letter, wrote a note of my own on it and sent it to the local PBS station. It basically said, 'Hello nameless person behind a desk. I know responding to a little girl's fan mail is not your job, but I'm sending this anyway. Because every kid deserves this rite-of-passage. To fall in love with some program or person and write to pour out their wee heart and gush about how great said person is with hope in that little heart that they'll be heard. And that adored hero/person or persons will know that they--little kid that they are--exist in the world too. Thanks for taking the time to read this. If you have even the smallest promo thing with Wild Kratts on it, here is a self-addressed, stamped envelope and a mom's sincere graditude."
They didn't use the self-addressed, stamped envelope when they wrote back...
She got a big package. With lots of promo stuff for all PBS's kids programming. Included in it was a picture of Chris and Martin Kratt with a note on it lovingly written by' Mr or Ms Nameless Person behind a Desk' to look as if it were from 'Them!'.
"I told you, Mom! I told you they're the best! I told you they'd write back!"
There was also a letter from the station inviting her to come in to visit and tell them in person all about why she loves the show. And then at the bottom...
"P.S. We have forwarded a copy of your letter onto our contact for Wild Kratts."
Thanks again Nameless Person behind a desk...you made my kids year, gave her a childhood rite-of-passage moment she'll remember always and made her Mom tear-up a bit that kick-ass people still exist in the world.
So I took her letter, wrote a note of my own on it and sent it to the local PBS station. It basically said, 'Hello nameless person behind a desk. I know responding to a little girl's fan mail is not your job, but I'm sending this anyway. Because every kid deserves this rite-of-passage. To fall in love with some program or person and write to pour out their wee heart and gush about how great said person is with hope in that little heart that they'll be heard. And that adored hero/person or persons will know that they--little kid that they are--exist in the world too. Thanks for taking the time to read this. If you have even the smallest promo thing with Wild Kratts on it, here is a self-addressed, stamped envelope and a mom's sincere graditude."
They didn't use the self-addressed, stamped envelope when they wrote back...
She got a big package. With lots of promo stuff for all PBS's kids programming. Included in it was a picture of Chris and Martin Kratt with a note on it lovingly written by' Mr or Ms Nameless Person behind a Desk' to look as if it were from 'Them!'.
"I told you, Mom! I told you they're the best! I told you they'd write back!"
There was also a letter from the station inviting her to come in to visit and tell them in person all about why she loves the show. And then at the bottom...
"P.S. We have forwarded a copy of your letter onto our contact for Wild Kratts."
Thanks again Nameless Person behind a desk...you made my kids year, gave her a childhood rite-of-passage moment she'll remember always and made her Mom tear-up a bit that kick-ass people still exist in the world.