The Nephews

I think the real Almanzo Wilder would roll over in his grave if he saw the Royal Wilder that was depicted in this episode. The man clearly has no back bone and isn't being the head of his household if he is allowing this woman and her prissy self to tell him how to raise their twin boys! The scenes with Milly in them make me absolute sick to my stomach! I hope Royal bent both boys over his knee at the end of this episode.

Almanzo and Laura were pretty stupid as well, though. They fell for Royal's under-handed ploy to get them to keep the boys, then they fell for the "he has to eat" incident? Really?

The screaming and shaking was just a hint of what I would have done to those two boys! I suspect, though, that Almanzo finally gave them the spanking they needed after the rat trap...

Can I mention the "let's have kids convo?" Was there really a lot of options back then? I don't picture Laura and Almanzo abstaining, so exactly what were they going to do to keep from getting...Well, okay I won't go there. I've just always wondered about that part!

I didn't even know that the idiotic idea of not disciplining yoyr kids properly was a thing in the 1800's. Somehow I really doubt if it was ...

What is up with these writers and all their 1970s ideas of women's rights and not spanking children? Again this episode was so unbelievable. In this time period most men were not passive to their wives and allowed their children to run around like little devils. I can find a little believable that Almanzo would let them run all over him but not Laura especially with her being a school teacher and knowing how to deal with kids with behavioral problems. And then the whole time they show the parents on their vacation, it was so obvious the background scene of them being on the river was fake. This was just not a good episode.