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Those Poor Kids!

posted 9 years ago by KatrinaW
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I know, it was the 50's, this is a melodrama, and children were still to be "seen and not heard", but the Whitaker kids sure got the short end of the stick!

'Stop bothering your father, he has to work'; 'no, stop bothering us, we're busy', 'no, your father can't come to your football game, he's busy. We're busy, he's busy, I'm busy. We're too busy looking perfect. Sheesh, the Draper kids had better parents!

I like to think that life was much more like 'Leave it to Beaver', where the parents, though regular 50's parents, were much nicer, and much more involved in their children's daily lives.

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[–] SkiesAreBlue 8 years ago

I must admit that my parents didn't attend many school functions and only a couple of ballet concerts I was in. Parents didn't in those days and my husband brought up in Canada was they same way. However, I agree the constant, I'm busy, your father is busy, we're busy was awful. At least when we sat down to dinner or even breakfast we interacted as a family and enjoyed debates and friendly arguments etc. This family was unreal🙄

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[–] Furienna (3322) 4 years ago

So I wasn't the only one, who got a feeling that these parents were too snappy with their kids? Good!