‘Mary Poppins’: Proper Parenting

This installment of ‘Movies for Young Adults’ explains that children need caring parents, not paid caretakers.
‘Mary Poppins’: Proper Parenting
Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) brings joy into children's lives, in "Mary Poppins." Walt Disney Pictures/MovieStillsDB
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Set in early 20th-century England, this film is a fun and refreshingly goofy way to remember, or revive, classic values.

Winifred Banks (Glynis Johns) spends more time singing at suffragette rallies than with her precocious children, Michael (Matthew Garber) and Jane (Karen Dotrice). Her banker husband, George (David Tomlinson) focuses more on banking than anything else. So, the children are cared for by a series of nannies, each frustrated enough with their antics to quit in turn.
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez is an independent writer who writes on pop culture.