Couldn't believe that mother.....*some spoilers*

15? I remember babysitting at 12!

Parents these days hover too much.

this was in the good old days when parents were still allowed to have a life and it wasn't swuch a big thing for a 15 year old to babysit

Parents can 'have a life', but Mrs. Flax was a lousy mother ALL THE TIME!
It was all about her. She just wanted to get laid, look pretty, let the kids raise themselves.
She literally leaps on a man she JUST MET and has sex with him...sans condom..gets pregnant. Real role model for Charlotte, and real classy!

For God's sake, the woman tried to raise them on MARSHMALLOWS and maraschino cherries! Then got mad when her boyfriend & Charlotte tried to be a real family!
She was despicable.


"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."

I suppose given the films setting, you could say that the 1960s were a simpler time. It would be wrong to leave your 10 year old child home now, but back then, it was probably considered harmless, especially in a tiny Massachusetts town. Although, today, you still hear about kids being looked after by their older siblings, so I suppose it WAS Charlotte's responsibility to look after her little sister while their mother was out, particularly considering Charlotte was way old enough to know better. At 18 years old, she's at a prime babysitting age... however in her defence, she was drinking, so perhaps poor judgement because of alcohol intoxication came into play. It all leads back to the poor examples set by their mother.