Friday, June 13, 2008

Mary Poppins

Last night I watched "Mary Poppins" with the girls. I just want to report that if you have ever seen any of those nanny shows (i.e. Super Nanny, Nanny 911) each episode turns out exactly how "Mary Poppins" does.

The nanny shows up to a family that lacks love and has unruly kids, there is no hope. Nanny shows up and helps the kids to tidy up the nursery, (which they really enjoy, go figure) and then expands on their imaginations with outings to the park or to some crazy guy's house where he's laughing so hard he is floating to the ceiling. Eventually, on Nanny's day off the kids go with daddy to his work, where they run away again, to that self-employed guy that seems to do everything, but he's cool he sings and dances, that always makes a stranger safe, right? Well, later, Daddy loses his job because the kids are just so crazy wanting to spend their money feeding those darn birds, and the mom, which I couldn't figure out what she did something about voting for women, and the dad take the kids to the park to fly a kite, and all is well so Nanny floats home.

With each episode of Super Nanny or Nanny 911 we find a family that doesn't connect well. The parents work very hard and don't get that the kids need more than just stuff to be happy. Nanny comes to make them understand all that, then she leaves and they are all better. Don't you just love reality TV?

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