The Innocence of the Leave it to Beaver TV show. Every weekday during the summer you could find us eagerly awaiting twelve o'clock noon. We would be seated on the couch with the television turned to channel three in anticipation of the leave it to beaver tv show. That show was already a classic when we started to watch it. We enjoyed the antics of Wally and the Beaver from the ages of five all the way up to our early teens. We adored their perfect family life, the fact that they had so many friends and all the laughs along the way. The leave it to beaver tv show never resorted to violence, crudity or off-color jokes to get a laugh. The children were always respectful and their parents were always involved in the decisions they made. The parents didn't smoke or drink heavily. Their house was always clean and their mother was always done up to the nines. Watching the leave it to beaver tv show was a welcome reprieve from our daily lives. Somehow real life wasn't quite a perfect. We never found a way to wrap up our problems in the span of half an hour and our parents even yelled at us sometimes! But the charm of the leave it to beaver tv show was that it helped to suspend reality. You could engross yourself in a full half hour of fantasy. But not fantasy with magic and wizards and spells - no, this was the fantasy of life as it should be - simple, uncomplicated and sweet. Looking back on the leave it to beaver tv show, I think of the characters with the same sort of nostalgia that one experiences when remembering grade school. Thinking over the antics of Eddy Hascal, remembering the angst poor Beaver would go through when he got himself into some innocent scrape, or simply remembering the opening song and credits of the show, are all good memories that can put a smile on your face. I often wished they'd make a full-length movie based on the leave it to beaver tv show, however, when that finally happened, it turned out to be more of a commercial effort and the original charm and uniqueness of the show was lost. The time period that the leave it to beaver tv show was set in - even the time period in which the show was made - are now all but forgotten. Any producer that attempts to capture that time, whether on TV or in film, just can't seem to stop themselves from including that extra edge, and the resulting effect has simply lost the charm that made the leave it to beaver tv show, and other shows like it, just so special. I've often tried to introduce my own children to some of my favorite tv shows, movies and books that touched my heart as a kid. However, I'm usually met with resistance. The entertainment of my day, that I found so engrossing, bores my own children to tears. Times have changed, just as times changed from my parents generation to my own, and that's a reality we have to live with. The value that the leave it to beaver tv show could offer to kids of my generation, just can't keep pace with the issues and problems that children face today. We as parents have to be that much sharper and on the ball to keep the lines of communication open with our children, so that we can raise a generation of kids who still value family life, morals and our world in general. The innocence of the leave it to beaver tv show is out of touch with the world of our children and it's parents who bear the responsibility to shape and guide their lives.