When You Wonder, You‘re Learning: Mister Rogers’ Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids by Greg Behr & Ryan Rydzewski
I remember as a child watching Mister Rogers and Captain Kangaroo. Through any show we would learn through of them.. Then when my children was little they would watch Sesame Street and it’s how they learned there ABC\s. With my niece and nephew none of these characters was important to them which is sad.
The world would be a better place if we all still watched these shows. Which I was blessed to be able to watch Tom Hanks in Mister Rogers but it was nothing like this book which I’ve been blessed to have a copy to read and refer to when Homeschooling Charlie.
My family is doing everything we can to learn and adapt to the world’s ever-changing needs. Children need different experiences and opportunities than they did in the 80s but they need love, attention, and acceptance like never before. “The Fred Method” easily shows how to accomplish all of this!
Parents learn what makes kids human: and needing to belong, opening up in a trusting environment, pursuing what interests them. While caring for others, and much more. We learn how everyone shares human characteristics while being different, and how important it is to be who we uniquely are. Making us most successful and fulfilled only when we become our own person. Which now days is totally different from when I was growing up and makes my head spin trying to figure out how to teach Charlie all the different people we have now that I don’t even understand and never knew existed.
About:
With lessons from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and examples from the acclaimed education network Remake Learning, this book brings Mister Rogers into the digital age, helping parents and teachers raise creative, curious, caring kids.
Authors Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski know there’s more to Mister Rogers than his trademark cardigan sweaters. To them, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood isn’t just a children’s program — it’s a proven blueprint for raising happier, healthier kids. As young people grapple with constant reminders that the world isn’t always kind, parents and teachers can look to Fred Rogers: an ingenious Scientist and legendary caregiver who was decades ahead of his time.
When You Wonder, You’re Learning reveals this never-before-seen side of America’s favorite neighbor, exploring how Rogers nurtured the “tools for learning” now deemed essential for school, work, and life. These tools can boost academic performance, social-emotional well-being, and even physical health. They cost almost nothing to develop, and they’re up to ten times more predictive of children’s success than test scores.
No wonder it’s been called “a must-read for anyone who cares about children.” With insights from thinkers, Scientists, and teachers — many of whom worked with Rogers himself — When You Wonder, You’re Learning helps kids and the people who care for them do what Rogers taught best: become the best of whoever they are.
Meet the Authors:
Gregg Behr, executive director of The Grable Foundation, is a father and children’s advocate whose work is inspired by his hero, Fred Rogers. For more than a decade, he has helped lead Remake Learning—a network of educators, Scientists, artists, and makers he founded in 2007—to international renown.
Formed in Rogers’ real-life neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Remake Learning has turned heads everywhere from Forbes to the World Economic Forum for its efforts to ignite children’s curiosity, encourage creativity, and foster justice and belonging in schools, libraries, museums, and more.
A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and also Duke University, Gregg holds honorary degrees from Carlow University and Saint Vincent College. He’s an advisor to the Brookings Institution and the Fred Rogers Center, and has been cited by Barack Obama and the Disruptor Foundation as an innovator and thought leader.
About the Author
Ryan Rydzewski is award-winning author, reporter, and speechwriter whose Science and education stories span everything from schools to space travel to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, he taught elementary school in south Louisiana before earning an MFA in nonfiction writing from Chatham University. Visit his website at
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
