Millennial Comfort
Hi all!
I just wanted to share some single children in nostalgic millennial movies/shows I’ve been watching lately after my sweet, sweet daughter goes to bed at night. Yes, I’m 33 and still watch the same movies/shows over and over, haha.
I’ll state the obvious first: Rory (and Lorelei) Gilmore!
All of the ladies in The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants (movies, books differ a little, if I remember correctly) other than Tibby who has a much younger sibling.
Mia in The Princess Diaries.
Sabrina in Sabrina The Teenage Witch.
Essentially all of the main characters in One Tree Hill - obviously Lucas and Nathan are estranged siblings but they live in different houses and hate eachother for the first few seasons, haha. Same goes for the brother Peyton found out about at one point (who we never see again), and Haley’s from a big family but we never see her siblings.
Topanga and Shawn in Boy Meets World.
Donna and Jackie in That 70s Show.
Susan Mayer/Delfino has a daughter in Desperate Housewives before having her son later on in the series - big age gap so the kids never live together as siblings, and are raised as single children.
Kate in John Tucker Must Die.
Charlie in The Santa Clause.
I also grew up loving Sarah Dessen’s books, and a lot of the main characters (and their friends) are single children, and the books that have characters with siblings often have animosity between them. Sarah Dessen has one child, so who knows if there’s a connection there.
This is not meant to slam anyone with multiple children - I grew up with siblings and while we fought all the time growing up and there are some old wounds there (for me), I loved my childhood with them. This is simply something I wanted to share as I notice this more now that my husband and I have made the conscious choice to be OAD, and while it’s absolutely the right choice for our family, I still feel wobbly about it sometimes and like some (albeit fictional in these cases) reassurance!
What movies/shows did I miss?! :)