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As Harriet Nelson gets her little family ready for school, Ozzie frets that young Ricky may have been given too much attention over his drawing. Should it be a competition for kids to be smarter than one another?how do the Nelson kids stack up to the neighbor kids? Gloria the maid is nowhere to be found, but she shows up long enough to alert suspicions that David might be planning to run away.
What’s a good parent to do? Eavesdrop on the kids, of course. All signs keep pointing to a run away. Is it really over heaping on the praise for a their prize drawing? After consulting neighbor girl, Emmy Lou, who has been spying on the Nelsons while in a tree. Ozzie decides to butter David up. Build his confidence, shower him with praises, and cookies.
With all the attention, have the Nelsons kept David from running away? What was his real reason for hitting the road?
