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Lori's avatar

I am old enough to remember going to see the movie in the theatre when it first came out! Later that year, my sister & I got a record player, along with two LPs -- the Mary Poppins soundtrack, and a Julie Andrews album of Christmas music. :) Later, when I was in high school, we adapted the movie as our spring musical production. (Our music teacher actually got the sheet music from Disney and wrote her own script -- which I now find amazing, given what I know today about Disney and its tight control of copyrights!). I was Mrs. Banks and got to sing "Sister Suffragettes." :) So needless to say, I know the movie well!

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Lacey Louwagie's avatar

What a gift you gave that mom -- a safe place for her kid, a heads up about where he was, and help with reconciliation. It's really true that fraying the relationship between parent and child does more harm than good in the long run, even if it feels good in the short term. I grew up very close to one of my child free aunts; she had kids later in life and I was then very involved with her kids. But when I was in my thirties I found out she had been lying about my mom and sowing discord in my family for years. She was upset with my mom and accused her of "turning me against her." But the truth is, she did it herself by thinking she could deeply hurt my mom and retain her relationship with me. In the absence of abuse, we're all stronger if we don't undermine each other's unique roles in a child's life -- even when that child is grown.

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