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Bertie complains to Gildersleeve’s about having to endlessly wax the floor while she cleans up after Leroy. Marjorie complains about the messy condition of Leroy’s room. Will it be as bad as everyone describes when his uncle sees it for himself? Leroy claims that are under too much pressure. If only people would leave him alone for a week, he would be able to excel. He gets his wish, but how well will Leroy demonstrate being self-disciplined?
With his newfound freedoms, will Leroy be to make sure to keep hanging out with his girlfriend Babs? In the Bullard home, Babs makes her pitch to have her own freedom as well. Will the modern, permissive parenting ideals have purveyed? Elsewhere, Judge Hooker and Gildersleeve talk. The judge recognizes that the rains should be held loosely on youngsters, but they shouldn’t be freely given their head. What would happen if all the kids in the neighborhood had no one to answer to? Between Bullard and Gildersleeve they fret over there to decisions of liberation. Will they ever be able to reinstate some guardrails?
A few days have gone by. How is the new teenage independence going? He gets a good report on his room from Bertie. Gildersleeve is a little disappointed that Leroy hasn’t been dropping the ball. He’s actually showing some initiative. Even in the drugstore Gildersleeve hasn’t found fault in Leroy’s behavior. With the week of freedom coming to an end, Bullard and Gildersleeve’s are looking forward to holding the reins on her kids again. They both have to admit that they have had impeccable behavior all week long. There sad however because they feel like they’re growing apart in the relationship with their kids. They find that they enjoy telling people what to do. It suddenly relieved when Gildersleeve finds that Leroy is back to being a messy kid again. Even Leroy is glad to be a little a responsible.
I really enjoyed this episode, especially the debate between Gildersleeve and Judge Hooker about letting kids “have their head.” It’s fascinating how parenting philosophies have shifted since 1952! Speaking of those times, I was trying to find some old medical advertisements from that era to see what they recommended for “teenage nerves” back then, and I stumbled upon some modern health residency insights at https://e-residence.com/fr/ instead. Do you happen to know if there were any specific sponsor-backed health products or “vitamin tonics” mentioned in the original broadcasts of this particular Leroy’s Week of Freedom arc that didn’t make it into the podcast edit?
glad you like the episode Kate. I’m not awareof any specific medications for neurotic teenagers. although I’m sure teenagers of the era could use plenty of them.
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