Comments on: Playing Laura and Mary

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 07 May 2011 08:42:32 +0000

It is strange that your blog has not caught me before, thanks for the article.

By: Sandra Hume

Sandra Hume — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:23:36 +0000

Mom, if you read Melissa Gilbert’s memoir, you won’t have such fond memories of Shannen! I’ll bring it for you to read next week.

By: Dr Laura

Dr Laura — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:35:35 +0000

My girls played a variety of make believe games when they were little back in the 80′s and 90′s. I don’t know about children today but I did happen to observe my 4 and 5 year old grandchildren playing with their toy soldiers (yes soldiers, not politically correct.) and trucks and cars and they were employing their imaginations. I was very pleased to see that.

I loved playing by myself with my Barbies or “wooden men” (Fisher Price Little People) when I was a child. I didn’t like playing those with others because I liked to control the conversations I also played house, school, actress, with my friends until I was 10 or 11. In 6th grade I went through a Daniel Boone stage where my neighbor boy and I played Daniel and Mingo.

The pictures of the girls were lovely.

By: betty boncek

betty boncek — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:44:58 +0000

the little girl with pigtails even looks like jenny from the little house. i think shannen doherty played her. that trip looked awesome

By: Lynne

Lynne — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:24:37 +0000

Very sweet Rebecca. I can’t tell you how many hours I spent one summer playing Laura. I pestered my parents to buy me a sunbonnet (they did), my mom to braid my hair (she did) and then I took old clothes of my mom’s and “made” them into prairie dresses. I was out in the sunshine and fresh air. My parent’s covered patio was my log, dugout and shanty house. It exercised both mind and body and I wasn’t sitting in the house watching TV all day.

By: Sandra Hume

Sandra Hume — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:40:42 +0000

What a fabulous post, Rebecca!