along, the slapstick, pie-in-your-face–style comedy abounded on television. But the difference Rogers offered was meaningful. He’d studied child psychology in college, forming a close relationship with one of his professors, Dr. Margaret McFarland, a child psychologist.5 Dr. McFarland mentored him for thirty years. Rogers also had the opportunity to hear Anna Freud, an expert in child psychology, known as a child analyst, and the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, when she offered a new perspective