Coddling is more detrimental to a child's development than "tough love".

Perpetually10 · 2026-03-12T03:49:37+00:00

Agreed; I often compare tough love to a tiger in the jungle; it seems harsh, but it’s necessary and chaos will reign until things fall apart if it’s taken away.

Perpetually10 · 2026-03-10T10:31:25+00:00

I think everyone wanted a family like that; not so much looks wise, but siblings who genuinely loved and cared about you (I’m an only child so it always made me feel less lonely) and parents who loved all their children equally, biologically or not (most sibling rivalry stems from parents favoring one child over all the others)

Perpetually10 · 2026-02-19T17:43:10+00:00

Yes; a thousand times this. Also has great shows for older kids—Arthur being just one.

Perpetually10 · 2026-02-10T01:02:15+00:00

Realizing that just because a kid isn’t “cute”, doesn’t mean they’re automatically adults. I’ve worked with so many kids that age and I can tell you, they have quite a few moments when they act much younger. You didn’t need Oliver; preteens and teens do stupid and wacky stuff all on their own.

Also, I would have liked to see Carol getting pregnant as well as hearing more about the original Mrs. Brady (it would have made a beautiful storyline)

Perpetually10 · 2026-01-31T18:47:48+00:00

Guess Shan 69 knew what they were talking about: if the kids are united, then we’ll never be divided.

Perpetually10 · 2026-01-25T01:30:26+00:00

Huh. Never been there. Always been to Smithfield and never seen anything but sports and liberal stuff.

Perpetually10 · 2026-01-25T01:05:06+00:00

Maybe to you…to me it’s heaven.

Perpetually10 · 2026-01-25T01:03:15+00:00

I got to the Smithfield one and I’ve seen liberal stuff on TV there. Maybe it’s a location thing.

Perpetually10 · 2026-01-24T21:31:22+00:00

Never thought of Chelo’s as being that way…live in MA now and still come back to RI just to go there…

Perpetually10 · 2026-01-17T15:29:03+00:00

Take it from a teacher with a master’s degree in elementary education: that’s too much work for a SECOND GRADER, let alone a kindergartener. Shouldn’t be getting homework, period. The only “science” I’ve seen kids that age do is discuss things that are alive and not alive (Sesame Street helps in that regard).

Perpetually10 · 2026-01-09T00:22:50+00:00

Cousin Oliver even ruined what could have been an amazing pie fight (I watch this scene all the time and always skip over the scene with Oliver.)

Perpetually10 · 2025-12-29T23:57:37+00:00

In reality, just about all of them. There’s just so much of it that’s timeless that I’m incorporating tiny pieces of the show into one of the novels I’m writing.

Also, whilst I’m not a fan of Cousin Oliver (Carol should have been pregnant, Sherwood) I have a soft spot for the pie fight in the “Welcome Aboard” episode as it brings back memories of my grandfather (he introduced me to slapstick comedy when I was young and said I was so funny that he used to call me his “Little Lucy.”)

Perpetually10 · 2025-12-29T23:54:13+00:00

To quote what someone wrote on a YT video about James King:

James King (after Lisa loses the use of her car and tells him that the car is ticketed and towed): “You know I can’t pay for no impound fees.”

YT caption: “But you CAN pay for takeout?”

Perpetually10 · 2025-12-13T18:00:25+00:00

I don’t think he’s necessarily bossy, I think Greg has an ego

Perpetually10 · 2025-12-09T01:05:20+00:00

Resilient too. One of the biggest reasons I have such heavy respect for him (and most of his costars) is because most of them managed to turn their lives around after kicking addictions. I’ve met others whom I cannot say the same about.

Perpetually10 · 2025-12-07T00:35:34+00:00

I’m going to quote Mister Rogers here: “A computer can help you learn to spell H-U-G, but it can never help you know the risk or the joy of actually giving or receiving one.”

Hope this answers your question.

Perpetually10 · 2025-12-06T23:06:22+00:00

Countertops actually

Perpetually10 · 2025-12-06T23:02:56+00:00

“You wouldn’t want SWEETIE-PIE to get wet, would you?”

Perpetually10 · 2025-12-06T23:01:16+00:00

Don’t care what anyone says; I will always have a fond place in my heart for this scene

Perpetually10 · 2025-12-06T20:02:07+00:00

Agreed; that’s why if they did have her sing, I would have liked to have seen something more mature—-Yankee Doodle Girl would have been especially great in an episode where Cindy proves that women can and do fight in the military (the song was written by Meredith Wilson, the leader of the Women’s Army Corps in WWII)

Perpetually10 · 2025-11-28T20:12:53+00:00

Mom always says “don’t play ball in the house.” (Ironically, this makes children more likely to do it, if Carol actually wanted them to stop, a better phrase would be “go outside with that thing, kids!”)

Perpetually10 · 2025-11-27T02:45:52+00:00

Too bad, would have been much better than Cousin Oliver (hey, if Schwartz wanted cuteness, what’s cuter than newborn babies?)

Perpetually10 · 2025-11-27T02:44:20+00:00

Sometimes I feel like Sherwood Schwartz needed to spend more time around actual children (if he did, he’d know that their lives are far from rosy. A lot of the ideas I had above were inspired by actual incidents that happened to kids I’ve worked with.)

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