Why can't parenting be like the Partridge Family ?

I think what you're trying to figure out is why can't today's families get along, have morals, etc. A lot of it has to do with selfishness, immaturity, lack of a solid upbringing, and this desire to ';have it all'; at any cost......Why can't parenting be like the Partridge Family ?
If we could script our kids it would be really nice. But life is not scripted at all. It is more fun that way I think! :)Why can't parenting be like the Partridge Family ?
because life doesn't have a script, you never know what to expect. Enjoy it!!
because life is not alwas scripted like that. i wished i had june clever as a mom and i almost did
Because life isn't fiction? The actors who played in the Partridge Family all went through very different lifestyles (that goes for the Brady Bunch, too).
because you don't have five writers scripting life to make it all come out all right. Life is real, TV sitcoms are not. It would be nice if we could get a rewrite sometimes.
Yeah look how good Danny turned out....LOL
because thats not reality. I would love to own that bus though.
Because of sin.
Because life's problems can't be solved in 22 minutes plus commercials.
Because that was scripted maybe you could try it though tell me how it works.
because life is not TV
Buy all of your kids an instrument, and hope for the best.
Well, because the ';Partridge Family'; isn't any more 'real' than ';Leave It To Beaver'; or ';Father Knows Best';, or ';Andy Griffith'; . Those shows were written so that every major problem could be solves in 30 minutes or less, and the problems where NOT that bad...like when Beaver ordered an accordian, or when Opie shot a mother bird. TV then was a fantasy land where you did not have pregnancy, suicide, drug abuse, war, race issues or any other 'hot topic'. Geez, ';Gomer Pyle USMC'; was most popular during the HEIGHT of the Vietnam War but did ';Gomer'; ever mention it or get deployed? Nope.





In an IDEAL world with IDEAL kids and IDEAL parents, parenting COULD be like the PF. But it ain't real. Once we started using MTV to baby-sit our kids, expected our schools to 'teach morality' and looked the other way at drug abuse, well, we got what we got.
THANK GOD it's not in my case. I'd hate to be a single parent, raising five kids on my own, living out of motel rooms and a stupid school bus converted into a tour bus?





This is the real world where we have real problems. Thank God for that :)