One thing that always strikes me whenever I re-read Trixie Belden is how absolutely un-Helicopterish the parenting is in that series. It is a real eye opener when you compare it to middle class America today.
I mean, the pack of them are cruising around New York City with only the Governess who checks in on them nightly even pretending to chaperone. And they go spelunking in the Ozarks.
