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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't base your life around a book of fiction about the 1890s which was probably written with nostalgia and selective memory after the two world wars.

My grandparents lived then; while in some ways they had an simpler life, in many ways they did not. Kids often didn't graduate from high school and went to work in cities or on farms, there was a lot of death of siblings and parents from childhood diseases and bacterial infections.

I remember reading Caddie Woodlawn at 12 and longing for that life. It was a sweet story but it wasn't mine.[/quote]

As someone who reads a lot of books from the 1890s and earlier — it’s funny how OP’s sentiment is a constant.  Louisa May Alcott’s “good” parents are always worrying about how kids are growing up too fast and how the fast pace of modern life is bad for their nerves.  Someday maybe I’ll do a retelling of Little Women in the media of a parenting forum.[/quote]

Kids are growing up too fast though, faster than I think alot of us did. I participated in a thread a few years back where a poster said that they had a neighborhood full of kids, but they all seemed to stop play at around 9. That's just way too young.[/quote]

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