jen
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Post by jen on Nov 25, 2006 7:39:09 GMT -5
Yes! I loved that book! And Eleven Kids, One Summer... Didn't the kids have alphabetical names? Oh, I want to read those again now.
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Post by baseballchica03 on Nov 26, 2006 19:48:11 GMT -5
See, it occured to me that the kids were unusually close in age Ha. My uncle is ten months younger than my mom, and my aunt is ten months younger than my dad. I didn't have a problem with them being so close in age, just that there were so darn MANY of them.
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macca
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by macca on Nov 27, 2006 17:49:27 GMT -5
^ yeah, it was the fact that they were ALL so close in age that seemed unusual to me. If it was just two or three kids I wouldn't have thought anything of it.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Dec 3, 2006 22:19:29 GMT -5
Because we met the Pikes when the kids were school aged, that's how I always thought of them, I guess. Same. They came into the world as 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. And they remain that way forever, due to the time warp. Actually, they came into the world as 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Then they made it to 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, but they're stuck there now. When I was a kid, I noticed most of the things that we think are bizarre now, but what I never noticed was anything related to how inattentive and/or weird the BSC members' parents (and some other Stoneybrook parents) were. Like not telling your kids that you're adopting another child until you're about to go pick her up? There are so many things wrong with that, but when I was a kid, I didn't think twice about it.
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Post by liss31d on Dec 4, 2006 1:35:20 GMT -5
You'd think adopting a child would take more time than that as well, in that book they made it sound like picking up another pet at the petshop.
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ktag
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Post by ktag on Dec 4, 2006 3:26:31 GMT -5
^Is that why Karen named her pet rat after Emily?
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jen
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Post by jen on Dec 4, 2006 4:32:17 GMT -5
Heehee! Elizabeth and Watson are setting such great examples.
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macca
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Post by macca on Dec 4, 2006 17:24:57 GMT -5
You'd think adopting a child would take more time than that as well, in that book they made it sound like picking up another pet at the petshop. At least they kept things realistic by making the only adoptive parents (and of an Asian child, no less) the OMG MILLIONAIRES!!!
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 4, 2006 17:38:04 GMT -5
I'd like to think there were other adopted kids in Stoneybrook. The parents just didn't feel the urge to share that info with the babysitters. Like "She's allergic to chocolate, bedtime's at 9, and she's adopted. Have fun!"
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jen
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Post by jen on Dec 5, 2006 2:40:29 GMT -5
^ Isn't adoption a really hard process, though? There aren't that many kids to adopt, and there are all these procedures you have to go through, and it's super expensive... I don't think it'd be necessarily that unrealistic if there weren't many other adopted kids in Stoneybrook.
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macca
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Post by macca on Dec 5, 2006 17:48:37 GMT -5
^ Isn't adoption a really hard process, though? There aren't that many kids to adopt, and there are all these procedures you have to go through, and it's super expensive... I don't think it'd be necessarily that unrealistic if there weren't many other adopted kids in Stoneybrook. Yeah, ITA. Adoption is extremely rare in Australia these days and has been for quite some time, although I think it's slightly more common in the US. Not sure on statistics. The entire process of adopting a child from overseas can cost around $30,000... not the sort of money ordinary people usually just have lying around.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Dec 6, 2006 12:02:55 GMT -5
I don't think adoption is so common that there'd be loads of adopted kids running around a small town like Stoneybrook. I wouldn't be surprised if Emily Michelle was the only one.
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digigirl02
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Post by digigirl02 on Dec 7, 2006 21:06:03 GMT -5
I never thought about how BUSY the girls must have been all the time. And how totally unrealistic it was that nobody ever needed a baby-sitter between 5:30 and 6:00 MWF. Oh thats easy, they were too busy calling them on the phone to set up jobs to do much of anything else.
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ktag
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Post by ktag on Dec 10, 2006 5:04:12 GMT -5
Wait, so...Dawn's been sitting since she was 9. What the hell?
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gabbie
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Post by gabbie on Dec 10, 2006 9:18:21 GMT -5
Maybe Dawn was a mother's helper?
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