The Brady Bunch and Other ‘70s Shows: I Have Questions
What happened to Tiger and why was there no toilet in the bathroom?
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TV-watching was a sign of adequate parenting circa 1975
As a child of the 70s and a latchkey kid at that, I watched a whole lot of TV. That’s what we did, back in the day: watch TV, eat unhealthy, sugary foods, and run the streets with our parents having absolutely no idea where we were for hours at a time. We were unsupervised and enjoying the freedom of being untethered. There was no Google, no Interwebs and certainly no GPS tracking, feeding a real-time digital map to my parents as to where I was at any given time of the day or night. “Find My iPhone” was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye in this groovy era. TV-watching as a regular pastime was accepted and even encouraged by parents who had to work a full day away from home, leaving their kids to t…
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