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Post by captainfraulein on Apr 23, 2024 16:34:40 GMT
I had an idea of writing a story about the children Maria and Georg have together and I just wanted to know your thoughts. Do you think they would agree on the way to parent their children or would there be some points of contention? What do you imagine their children to be like?
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Post by reverendcaptain on May 1, 2024 19:29:58 GMT
Fun questions! I think Georg would defer to Maria on most of the child raising, not just because of the gender roles of the time, but because he has already tried his hand at it, and failed. She saved him by first saving his children. I think he trusts her, even if doesn't initially agree with her, and I think this arrangement would continue going forward.
It is hard to imagine their children because they would be raised in such a different environment. Running a lodge in Vermont while using performance to pay the bills is really different from how the other 7 were raised. I don't know what the points of contention would be. Money? How long to stay in America? Schools? It's hard to say.
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Post by indigoblue on May 2, 2024 10:30:44 GMT
Also, his life had changed so much, because with the first seven kids, he was away much of the time (?) in the navy being a national hero, whereas after Maria arrived, he seems to have too much time on his hands. The time lines of the film and real life don't coincide, because I believe he really lost his post in the navy after the break up of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1916, when Austria's seabord was lost, but that's fiction for you...
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Post by augiesannie on May 2, 2024 19:54:23 GMT
captainfraulein I think it's a great idea, especially given the different circumstances as noted above. I also always wondered this: even if G deferred to M as a matter of gender role, the reality is that he's been through all of it before, and he probably has SOME opinions or advice. He might have to navigate the line between using his experience to reassure her while not condescending (which it's easy to imagine him doing). I wrote a chapter about this once that was a lot of fun, but I won't go into it here and instead will wait excitedly for your version!
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Post by utility_singer on May 15, 2024 13:22:41 GMT
captainfraulein I think it's a great idea, especially given the different circumstances as noted above. I also always wondered this: even if G deferred to M as a matter of gender role, the reality is that he's been through all of it before, and he probably has SOME opinions or advice. He might have to navigate the line between using his experience to reassure her while not condescending (which it's easy to imagine him doing). I wrote a chapter about this once that was a lot of fun, but I won't go into it here and instead will wait excitedly for your version! All of this, plus----I imagine the older, grown kids may have had their own ideas for how Maria and Georg were treating the new offspring. |
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Post by indigoblue on May 17, 2024 23:15:08 GMT
I know someone who grew up the youngest of eight children, and she saw her older siblings more as parents and guides than her parents (who were too busy with all of them to spend much time with each one).
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Post by serialshippersince4e on May 18, 2024 20:54:49 GMT
As the eldest child in a family where the youngest has a significant age difference to the second youngest, all I have to say is:
1. My life mission is to annoy my youngest sibling as much as possible
2. The youngest was forced to grow up fast with the interaction with the "older and wiser" siblings and it was very easy for us to forget that the little one was a child and not a mini adult
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