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 dont 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 dont know the characters and plotlines, youll 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 cant remember a time when I didnt 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 didnt seem scandalous to me as a preschooler. I innately understood the world of All My Children, and deep down I loved Erica right away.

Ive continued watching All My Children every since. Sometimes I feel like the fictional residents of Pine Valley are members of my own family. Ive 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. Thats a lot to keep track of.

Now that Im 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 isnt always time to watch the whole thing, but it doesnt 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, its like no time has passed at all. You pick right up where you left off.

Thats just the special place that All My Children has in my heart.