
A MUST HAVE!!!

I love everything about this movie! The acting, the stars (Irene Dunne!),the costumes, sets, the era, and most of all - the story. It's captured on film a piece of American heritage that I believe we should all keep in mind. It's not about the early settlers who came on the Mayflower, but the immigrents who came around the turn of the century.
It was fairly common then to come with the entire extended family and they stuck together - whereas today we move or are moved hither and yon and loose the benefits of remembering our roots and maintaining close and frequent contact with aunts, uncles, cousins, and siblings - a very important thing to have. It shows family values, where family does come first - parents taking the time to nurture their children and treating them with all their different characteristics tenderly, and the love and devotion they receive from their kids because of being raised that way. The parents use that same careful and practical treatment to the rest of the family - with all their peculiarities and all.
It's good to see the whole family working together to plan their spending and seeing how that information made a difference in how the kids learned respect for budgeting and appreciation for what they had - without frightening them about lack of money, but seeing where it went and how important it is to cover the basic expenses of life before any little luxuries are purchased. I admire that a lot as it laid the ground work for conscientiousness and didn't produce a willy-nilly brood of thoughtless, demanding "gimme gimme" kids. If parents had the know-how to do that these days, I think we'd see a great difference in how our country's young people would appreciate their parents for raising them that way, in their manners and in how they would show greater respect for their families, other people in general, and money.
We should remember that most of our families in the US started out this way. Hard working, not usually wealthy, but able to go on through their days with dignity and honor, the support and comfort of their families nearby, and with respect for others and themselves. A very good way to live.
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