article_snippet: (CNN)I grew up watching "Leave It to Beaver.
article_snippet: I would watch the black and white show during dinner, sitting on the couch with a plate of food on my lap that had not been prepared by my own mother.  
article_snippet: In other words, as I ate my dinner in the 1980s while watching a TV show based on life in the 1950s, it was easy to see that some things had changed and some had not.  