The lessons are about how to be a family, how to have long-term relations between adults and children (here nuclear family but any relationship, caregivers, grandparents, teachers, etc). Ignoring either the kids or the adults defeats the purpose.

Family learning is relational, it is not learning for an individual. The kids are not going to understand everything they are learning but they are going to be primed to see their parents as human more easily because of how effectively they are portrayed as people not parables.

That's a niche framing that makes sense for Ellis to not have but she has, nonetheless, nailed its principles on the head. The show is to represent the lives of all members of a family to build understanding among all members. Kids and adults are seen, and that gives the platform to see each other.

That crash out made me uncomfortable when I saw it! It was so self-defeating to the objectives! But people are not objectives and answers, we are feelings. And superman has to be feelings.

Its hard not to draw comparisons between fantastic 4 and superman, and Mikey makes probably just the right amount here (almost none). But why Superman landed for me is exactly what he points to as the most important scene

My mistake, i took you for three pears

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