What TV show is your family like?

[UncleBilly]

There has been some comparison here lately between the Osbournes and the Cleavers. I wondered what type of TV show family each of you lived in when you were growing up. Was your life straight out of: Leave it to Beaver, The Brady Bunch, Roseanne, Married with Children, Eight is Enough, The Cosby Show, The Osbournes, All in the Family, Andy Griffith, The Wonder Years, Good Times, Family Ties, Happy Days or one of the other myriad of TV shows that I can't remember. My childhood was probably a combination of Leave it to Beaver and The Wonder Years. The innocence of the Beaver years were behind us while I was growing up but it was still more of a happy-go-lucky childhood than most kids are able to enjoy today.

[Leigh Ann]

My life is like The Waltons. I'm the youngest of my cousins on both sides of my family, so, I'm like Elizabeth. I also have red hair. I've been making that comparison in my head for a long time.:)
Although, I'm an only child. I'm talking about my cousins are like The Walton children.

[Mondello]

My childhood would have been like The Wonder Years. My dad was so much like Jack Arnold. I would have given anything if it had been like The Cleavers. I raise my children like the Cleavers (so i'm making up for it)

[Mijada]

I agree with Mondello. My family was very similar to the Arnolds of The Wonder years. Stay at home mom, Dad who came home from work everyday in a bad mood and didn't want to be bothered and siblings always bickering. The only difference is, my parents got divorced.

[BBF]

Well, my family isn't much like any tv family, but although there aren't as many children in my family, I would say my family is the most like the Huxtables from The Cosby Show. It really isn't much like it either, except for the fact that my dad has a very similar parenting style to Cliff Huxtable. My dad reminds me a lot of him.

[DarleneIllyria]

The Bunkers- My father is Archie, I'm Gloria, and my mother is Edith. My mother isn't exactly a dingbat, but we're the Bunkers. We're just missing the Meathead.

[Katherine Leigh]

I was an only child, but growing up was like The Wonder Years. Today, my two daughters, husband and myself are very much like the Cleavers. My husband goes to the office while I stay at home, take care of the house, bake lots of cookies and enjoy every minute of it! The personalities of my girls are very much like Wally and Beaver too. (And my husband makes a good Ward!) :)

[sami dg]

I guess growing up my family was kind of like Roseannes kind of dysfunctional but close just the same.

[HaskellGirl]

My family is like the Cleavers in that its a nuclear family, my dad went out to work, mom stayed home...but I guess we are also like the Family Ties family, where everyone has their own personalities and we clash with each other.

[UncleBilly]

It was fun reading what kind of families you grew up in. What is most interesting though is some of you are raising your own families more like the Cleavers. I think that says alot about the show Leave it to Beaver and what an impact it still has in the 21st century. We are still striving for that perfect family and it sounds like some are succeeding.

[mister bluster]

My family was mostly like the family skits on The Carol Burnett Show. I, too, always wished it could have been more like LITB.

[Parisite]

My family was sort of like Andy Griffith Show. My dad looked a lot like Andy and most of our relatives were rednecks. I grew up on a farm in KY in the 50's-60's. I watched LITB (when the TV was working) and thought the Cleavers were rich. They had a big, nice home and ate dinner in the dining room. I was impressed by that. My mom did dress up most of the time, like June Cleaver, with the nice everyday dresses and hats and gloves when she went to town. My children are grown now, but when they were at home, we ate dinner together every night and they were not allowed to run around town unsupervised. My husband and I worked full time, but the family always came first. The kids both turned out well, so I guess I did something right.