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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wasn’t Ramona only 4 when she played at the playground outside the community center where Beezus took an art class? That struck me. Nobody could do that now.

We coddle our children so much [/quote]

The difference between Ramona's Kindergarten, where she was working on writing her own name, and taking a nap, and playing outside, and her mom stopped walking her to school after showing her the way one time, and 2024 Kindergarten is startling.

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+1. It is basically how my mom described her kindergarten in the mid-50s. She walked to school by herself, came home for lunch, etc. Of course her mother stayed home (and was very resentful of it, which is why my mom always worked). It was a different world altogether.

I happened to pick up the first Ramona book (where she is in kindergarten) to read to my kids just a few days ago, and my younger kid is in first grade so the kindergarten memories are fresh. Not sure my kids are picking up on the differences, but I sure am! I do walk them to school, and they also each had about 30 kids in their kindergarten classes, but they aren't going places by themselves and they don't have stay at home parents. On the less great "differences" side, the book is replete with outdated ideas like "only girls play with dolls or ribbons" and "only boys are interested in tools and naturally good at using them." In the scenes where Ramona chases Davy, onlookers talk about Davy being fast and going out for track, but not Ramona - because girls "didn't do sports" back then. Those differences are also quite striking to me, though again, not sure if my kids are noticing.[/quote]

Those differences make good dinner time conversations![/quote]

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