bsclover18
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Post by bsclover18 on Oct 13, 2008 19:29:10 GMT -5
^It's true. You can get almost any design and color of glasses you want now a days.
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Lila
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Post by Lila on Jan 27, 2009 16:11:19 GMT -5
Mallory's such an angry character. I hated her a lot. She hates her hair she hates her braces she hates her glasses. hate, hate, hate. I could never understand her. Even when i was a kid reading about her i couldn't relate. I had long hair down to my waist and I hated it. I longed for short hair becuase it was just "Cool" to me because i had long straight hair until i was 9. My mom didn't let me have it cut. So i took charge and cut it myself in the bathroom one day. I had glasses in 6th grade. But they were cool instyle glasses back then that i got and they looked cute. I got braces in 7th grade but everyone had braces and it was no big deal. why didnt mal have any control over her glasses style? and she can't be THE ONLY kid w braces in that town. Mal baby sits too can't she save up her money and get a hair cut she's happy with? Or let claud and stacey have a go at her hair? Or you think she'd ask Claud to borrow clothes? Or stacey? Didn't Claud and Stacey swap clothes sometimes? Ahhhh it just drove me nuts to read about mallory and whining every time in the book. this is the real reason why: Mallory takes control over her family. she organizes stuff and does things that are very mature. Then she falls to pieces like "I have no control over anything" I'm like "'uhh, quitter." She did stand up in Mallory and Trouble with Twins to get more independance. and the rest of her family bugs me too. they have no discipline and run around. her parents don't care they aer like 'ah whatevers' I hate that sterotype that familes that are large and have lots of kids dont have order in the house. yes you see it a lot, there are families in my community who have unbridled kids and no control. But, i also see families with lots of children who DO have control and everyone is neat and the older siblings help with the younger ones. I also see big families who have neat homes too. Aaaaah! it just annoys me so! rawr!
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Post by candykane on Jan 27, 2009 17:56:16 GMT -5
^Mallory's whining is typical I think of many girls that age. You know how girls that age can be - if they're having a bad hair day, zits, or whatever, they imagine that people are looking at them and thinking about it a lot more than is actually true. In reality, everyone is more concerned about their own awkwardness to be concerned about someone else's. Mallory also could have saved herself a lot of whining by simply asking her parents for a haircut. For ages, she never did ask, but just complained about her hair all the time. When she asked, she got what she wanted without a fight. See how easy it can be, Mal? I don't think her parents would have let her get away with wearing Stacey or Claudia's clothes. They were portrayed as being more strict regarding wardrobe. As for there being no discipline in the Pike house, I always felt like they were more laid-back than anything. I enjoyed reading about it, because my own house growing up was NOT laid-back at all; it was rather oppressive. They did get punished and grounded in the Pike house when they did stuff wrong, but I liked the relaxed attitude they had about food, playing and making noise, and having people over, because I didn't experience that in my own house.
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Lila
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Post by Lila on Jan 27, 2009 19:27:01 GMT -5
oh they did get in trouble? i can hardly remember. i do remember Margo in trouble for stealing. But yeah that's really understandable. But i do remember the triplets being so mean to Nicky. But i suppose bullying in the sibling family is common. Not in my family though or friends of ours that we knew. If me or any of my friends tried to bully a sibling our parents had no tolerence for that sort of behavior. Just looking at many kids tv shows the siblings always hate each other.
my sibling relationship was like Karen and Andrew. i'd look out for my brother and tell him ways of the world or try to boss him around into playing what i wanted to but in a magnanimous way and he'd go along becauses the idea was just TOO COOL.
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Post by candykane on Jan 27, 2009 23:40:05 GMT -5
The triplets got grounded for breaking a window playing ball, just as another example.
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Post by greer on Jan 27, 2009 23:46:59 GMT -5
My house had about the same amount of rules as the Pikes, although our rules were weird. No shoes in the house ever, don't sit on the furniture in your street clothes, etc.
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Post by abbystevenson on Jan 27, 2009 23:59:48 GMT -5
So, you mean you have to change into more clothes just to sit on the furniture? Why?
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Post by greer on Jan 28, 2009 0:04:47 GMT -5
My mom was raised in a Belarusian household, and in Russian and Belarusian culture, everyone has street clothes and home clothes. So you come home, immediately take your shoes off at the door, put on your slippers, and then take off your nice street clothes, put them away, and put on your home outfit. Like my current home outfit is an old sweatshirt and my long johns. But my mom's special thing with jeans is that she says that the dye rubs off on the couch fabric.
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Post by abbystevenson on Jan 28, 2009 0:11:15 GMT -5
Ahh, that explains things!
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 28, 2009 10:34:04 GMT -5
I've never heard that about denim dye.
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Post by greer on Jan 28, 2009 12:32:56 GMT -5
I tend to wear really dark denim, the kind that has warnings about how you should wash it.
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Penny Lane
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Post by Penny Lane on Jan 28, 2009 13:35:34 GMT -5
I also had really weird rules, but not a lot, especially when I was at my grandmother's house. For example: Dinner was ALWAYS at 6 p.m. Not 6:01, or 5:58, 6. I was supposed to "wash up" and change my clothes before dinner, and be upstairs to "socialize" at 5:30. But I didn't have a bed time or restrictions on what I could watch on my TV or anyone checking on my homework. My parents were very different. They liked the micromanaging of my life, which led to lots and lots of problems when i was a teen. Although, they also never really checked on my homework. When I watch other families, like my supervisor and her kids, I really see how bizarre my upbringing really was. (Although, I think she really over does it with the micromanaging/refusing to let her kids grow up at all) I also wear the really dark denim. It does rub off on things, but only if it gets wet or the furniture is very light colored. It also rubs off on skin and other layers of clothes. I still like it though. Maybe I should buy more expensive dark denim to avoid that.
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Post by greer on Jan 28, 2009 14:21:56 GMT -5
I don't think it matters how expensive it is. It still rubs off. I have some really expensive jeans that turn my legs blue when it rains.
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Post by abbystevenson on Jan 28, 2009 15:37:50 GMT -5
^ Yep. Dye is dye, no matter how expensive it is. It will rub off if it's going to, regardless of whether you paid $10 for them or $100 for them.
There were very little rules in my house growing up, but we were always expected to behave. We turned out fine. A lot of our friends had parents that micromanaged their lives and they rebelled against everything and got into lots of trouble later on.
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Post by wenonah4th on Mar 3, 2009 9:05:04 GMT -5
Maybe the Pikes really didn't have a lot of specific rules, only general ones.
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