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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love how the Catskills was like family summer camp, but high-end, with dinner and dancing every night.  Corny fun.  I wish we still had something like it these days.  [/quote]

Cruises are like that but less corny. DH and I dance a lot and I do think it's more of a lost art now, back then everyone knew how.

I wonder a lot about the childcare. Everyone just expects Zelda to do it. How does that poor woman cook, clean and take care of these kids all day? She's there until late at night too.

I was kind of shocked at her performance at the wedding. She acts like she forgot there was a Priest present, but she grew up around Rabbis and you wouldn't say those things in front of them either. [/quote]

+1
The childcare issue *really* bothers me.  I get that this is just a silly, fluffy show and we're not to think too deeply about it or take it seriously.  But honestly, the kids are less than props even.  No one ever interacts with them (though we occasionally will see Midge patting one on the head or reading to one briefly).  I agree with a PP who said this show would be more enjoyable (and believable) if she hadn't had kids yet.  As a mom, all I can think about is "Where are the kids?  Who's watching the kids??"  Not only Midge, but her parents seem completely disinterested in them.[/quote]

This should be a different thread, but that's probably the most realistic part of the show. In my family (UMC with a SAHM) in the 50s, kids were never read to. They didn't eat dinner with the parents. The moms went off and played cards/social functions with their friends and the kids just played outside all day. Very young kids like Esther tagged along with the housekeeper during the day, but didn't get too much attention either. Parents went out at night without anyone watching the sleeping kids. [/quote]

I find it funny that people have a hard time remembering that children weren't coddled and worshipped in ways that they are today. The whole schlep with minding children and living your entire existence for them is very very recent in human history. [/quote]

no, it's not. The hovering and the making parenting a competitive sport and worrying about doing everything THE BEST evidence supported way. that's newer but it's newer only in this more rarified segment of society as a whole. It was not and has never been the norm to have full time home help staff in the US. It was a small segment in the 50s. Everyone likes to think they were UMC with this kind of life but it's rewriting history. It was an upper class lifestyle. Nothing middle or average about it. Kids were a lot more independent and out of the house to play in neighborhoods at young ages, giving parents more adult time, that's certain. There were certainty much more involved parents than this show portrays in the 50s and 60s, just not helicopters. This show reflects a very narrow set of values/views/lifestyle when it comes to what having a family means, a d that's ok, but it wasn't the norm then either[/quote]

Well said.  This is exactly right.  Midge comes from an upper class family, nothing middle class about it.  Very few people lived that way.  My mom was a young adult around that time frame and from an UMC family.  She's been watching the show and said she personally knew of no one who lived that way, though certainly, some very wealthy families did.  My mom's cohort was made up of young women who worked until they married, and then most were able to stay home with their children.  The "housekeeper" wasn't raising the kids of the middle and upper middle class.  [/quote]

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