Home with Kids
| Home with Kids 家有儿女 |
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Home with Kids VCD cover
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Written by |
Zang Li (臧里) |
| Creative director(s) | Li Hong (李洪) |
| Starring |
Song Dandan Gao Yalin Andy Yang (first two seasons) Ning Danlin (latter two seasons) Zhang Yishan You Haoran |
| Opening theme | "Sunshine boy sunshine girl" by TG4 |
| Country of origin | China |
| Original language(s) | Chinese |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 367 |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Wu Weimin |
| Running time | 20 minutes (approx.) |
| Production company(s) |
Sky Ground People Media (天地人传媒) |
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| Original network | Beijing Television |
| Original release | 12 February 2005 – 2007 |
Zang Li (臧里)
Zang Xi (臧希)
Lim Chun-ming (廉春明)
Wu Weimin
Huang Rulun
Pan Zhengping
Xu Shengheng
Luo Jiexia
Zhou Meizhen
Liu Shun Fat
Sky Ground People Media (天地人传媒)
Home with Kids (Chinese: 家有儿女; pinyin: Jiā yǒu érnǚ), is a sitcom/drama from Mainland China. There are four series of Home with Kids, i.e. Home with Kids 1, Home with Kids 2, Home with Kids 3 and Home with Kids 4, which were released respectively in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. It is considered to be an equivalent to Growing Pains, a US sitcom. Unlike most Chinese multi-camera sitcoms, Home With Kids prominently uses child actors as main roles. The series also reunites Song Dandan and Wen Xingyu, who both starred in China's first multi-camera sitcom, I Love My Family.
The series has ended with 365 half-hour episodes.
Xia Donghai, a director of children's drama who has divorced, returns from the U.S. with his young son Xia Yu (commonly known as "Little Yu") and daughter Xia Xue (also known as "Little Xue") to start a family with a divorced woman Liu Mei, who has a son, Liu Xing, from her previous marriage. The five live happily in a flat in modern Beijing. The story is evolved around the family member's encounters to various issues in life and their attempts to cope/solve them, and most episodes involve the parents' attempts to act as a good example for their children and teach them know right from wrong. This family arrangement is atypical for modern Chinese families because of the one child per family policy.
Xia Donghai (夏东海), portrayed by Gao Yalin, is the bespectacled father of Xia Xue and Xia Yu and stepfather of Liu Xing. As a director of children's drama, he is portrayed with a child-friendly personality of being kind, generous, humorous, and easygoing. As someone who has witnessed American education, his ways with the children involves mainly tolerance. understanding and signs of equality. He can also be quite lazy and incompetent at housework or sports. In the second season, he is fired from the spot of director and is recruited as the editor of a children's magazine.
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