All My Children - article by Good English Article Sites

Why I Love All My Children

Everybody has their favorite daytime soaps, I know that. My favorite is All My Children on ABC. What I don’t know is how people choose which soap opera to watch? Do they tune in for a few episodes and decide if they like it? How do you just tune into a soap anyway? If you don’t know the characters and plotlines, you’ll be lost.

I never decided to start watching All My Children. I never gave it a try and decided whether I liked it. I never considered other soap operas instead. No, I was raised on All My Children. I was weaned on it. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t watch All My Children.

My mother was an avid AMC fan, presumably since long before I was born. I never asked her when or why she started watching. All I know is that some of my earliest memories involve her muttering at the TV, telling Erica Kane what a horrible person she was for pretending to want a baby when she was secretly using birth control! She way lying to her own husband. Somehow, this didn’t seem scandalous to me as a preschooler. I innately understood the world of All My Children, and deep down I loved Erica right away.

I’ve continued watching All My Children every since. Sometimes I feel like the fictional residents of Pine Valley are members of my own family. I’ve been watching them fall in love, get married, get divorced, die and come back to life for my whole life! I remember the plotlines from twenty years ago, and I know how each person is related to everyone. That’s a lot to keep track of.

Now that I’m an adult and I have to work, it gets harder and harder to keep up with the goings-on in Pine Valley. Thankfully I now have DVR, so I can record each episode of All My Children if I want to. There isn’t always time to watch the whole thing, but it doesn’t matter. I could stay away from the show for years, but I know that as soon as I tuned in again I would get right back into it. All My Children is like one of those old friends that knows you really well. You might spend some time apart, but as soon as you reunite, it’s like no time has passed at all. You pick right up where you left off.

That’s just the special place that All My Children has in my heart.

Most Recent Articles