You look on your kids’ computer and see they’ve been watching weasel vs rat YT vids instead of a skeleton structure breakdown lesson or eye function structure
My eldest is too old to engage with these formats beyond lectures and music but the youngest three are all under 12 and Attenborough feeds into schools, into their universes and into their favourite subject of all = sharks
If you’re trying to encourage more learning and ongoing ventures into water, be it rivers or the sea, he’s unavoidable. If you’re trying to be an educator or at least lead kids to joy, Attenborough is as ubiquitous as Gandalf and if he isn’t talking about sharks, shark attacks on surfers, shark species, shark habitats, shark teeth, megadinoshark, baby sharks, fresh water sharks, cocaine sharks, you know, sharks, they simply want more answers to how these species function, how they’ll survive and will bypass Attenborough to get there. We haven’t completely failed as parents
Screening existential environmental angst to below a certain volume threshold is healthy for kids, inertia isn’t happening with this brood but you have to let young minds explore too. As long as they don’t start fishing carp lakes with my brother-in-law it’s manageable