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What TV parent do you wish you had seen when you were raising your own kids?

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My husband and I have recently discovered reruns of "The Rifleman," which I think must have been on in the late 50s or early 60s, since it's in black & white and is a half-hour show. The father Lucas, I've since read by googling, was the first widowed father on TV, and though the show is, of course, a western and there is naturally some gunplay, a lot of the stories revolve around or at least contain Lucas's efforts to teach his son Mark right from wrong.

He does such a good job of it! I know it's TV and things are wrapped up in less than 30 minutes, but I wish I'd had a few pointers from this show when my daughter was growing up. Oh, she turned out fine  :) but I do wonder if things might have been a bit easier (especially when she was a teen) if we'd seen the reruns of this show then.

What TV parent do you wish you'd seen when you were raising your kids? 
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I'm still raising my kid and so far I'm sticking w/ the hard stuff (like being consistant, which is really important since she's 2), but I remember my mom telling me she wished her mom was the mom Partridge family (child of the 70's) or that her fam was the Brady family.
Alle Meine Entchen said:
I'm still raising my kid and so far I'm sticking w/ the hard stuff (like being consistant, which is really important since she's 2), but I remember my mom telling me she wished her mom was the mom Partridge family (child of the 70's) or that her fam was the Brady family.
I had the beginnings of the Brady Buch thing - we raised three daughters and three sons. My big regret was that I never had an "Alice."
tkkenyon said:
I'm still trying to live up to the Huxtables.
:D Funnily enough I was just watching that show this evening.
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