“Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down…in a most delightful way”

How many of you can hear Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) singing that?

How many of you have no idea who Mary Poppins is?

There’s the generational divide right in front of us…although Broadway has just introduced a new “Mary Poppins” musical to catch those of you who only know the more postmodern Nannie McPhee version of the story.

[Here’s the link if you want to play it . . . to remind some and acquaint others http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8VHc49ZdP4]

Nanny Mary Poppins sang this song in the 1964 movie to get her employers’ closed-mouth children to open up and swallow down their daily dose of nasty-tasting stuff. Could any nanny get away with that today? Given the skyrocketing rate of childhood obesity, I su…