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Post by bscfan24 on Dec 10, 2006 14:34:07 GMT -5
Maybe they meant that she's been sitting for, like, Jeff or some other family members. Unless the people who let her sit for their kids were, like, high or something. You know, California and all. Sorry....that was just a joke....I don't want to offend anyone lol
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digigirl02
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Post by digigirl02 on Dec 11, 2006 0:58:15 GMT -5
Ditto about the Pikes. One day I imagined how the family started out, and I realised... ok, they had Mallory... then Mrs Pike instantly gets pregnant with TRIPLETS... then they're born, and they have a ONE year old, and three newborns... and they go and do it again! And again... and again! Then they take a little break, and... AGAIN! Which means they end up with 8 kids age 6 and under. Jesus Christ... WHY? Come to think of it, who'd have time to make babies when they already have 4 to look after(mallory and the triplets)... if that was me, once the triplets had arrived, I'd take some serious measures to make sure no more were going to arrive, at least for a few years! They could at least wait another year between the triplets and Vanessa.
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Post by aln1982 on Mar 25, 2007 15:31:15 GMT -5
In Kristy + Bart and in Dawn's Big Date, both the Schafers and Thomas-Brewers have the rule about no boyfriends in the house without parents home. While I understand the logic in this, what made me laugh was that Dawn and Lewis went for a walk and then into the BARN. Hello? Something can't happen just as easily (if not being more likely because the chances of someone walking in are less) in the barn or on a walk out in the middle of no where? Sometimes well meant rules aren't always logical. This one makes no sense to me because it's just not effective. Maybe if the parents interacted with their kids and knew they could trust them ..... I just thought of this and wasn't sure what thread to post it under so I put it here.
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msstock87
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Post by msstock87 on Mar 25, 2007 16:23:03 GMT -5
Honestly, I didn't think of any of the stuff mentioned here until I came to this board. I was such a naive child, and just thought all of that stuff was normal. hehe
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Post by sotypical42483 on Mar 26, 2007 12:29:13 GMT -5
Stacey's mom also has a rule about boys in the house, they're allowed in the kitchen but that's it. So in Stacey's Broken Heart, she calls her mom to ask if her and Robert can go in the living room to play a computer game. Weeeeird. These girls are so honest. lol.
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Post by aln1982 on Mar 26, 2007 15:08:10 GMT -5
I remember the rule with Stacey's mom and thinking the same thing. My parents wouldn't even have thought twice about it because they totally trusted me (but I had earned this trust and was a good kid who never would have dreamed of doing anything I knew they wouldn't approve of). Of course, sometimes the joke is that I'm stricter than my parents So, I can see the BSC girls being trustworthy, too. I actually think someone like Mallory or MA who seemed to have a good head on her shoulders should have been trusted a little more. That's why I was pretty disappointed with Kristy in Kristy + Bart but the same thing could have happened in any location.
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Post by hitzpink on Mar 26, 2007 21:00:26 GMT -5
Why are they allowed in the kitchen but nowhere else? That's weird. I can just picture Mrs. McGill walking in and seeing Stacey and Robert making out on the kitchen table. "But mom, you said I'm allowed to have boys in the kitchen!" That's really funny that she called to ask if they could play a video game in the living room. LOL. But I mean, come on, did their parents REALLY think there was a chance these girls were going to do anything sexual with their boyfriends?!
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Post by sotypical42483 on Mar 27, 2007 13:20:45 GMT -5
^haha I know, I never understood the whole "stay in this room" rule. It doesn't make any sense. There's nothing you can't do in the kitchen that you can do in your bedroom.
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Post by mckay on Mar 27, 2007 22:40:16 GMT -5
^haha I know, I never understood the whole "stay in this room" rule. It doesn't make any sense. There's nothing you can't do in the kitchen that you can do in your bedroom. Well, I can think of a few things, but it's not terribly likely that a Stoneybrook teenager would consider such things!
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Post by aln1982 on Apr 3, 2007 23:44:44 GMT -5
Why are they allowed in the kitchen but nowhere else? That's weird. I can just picture Mrs. McGill walking in and seeing Stacey and Robert making out on the kitchen table. "But mom, you said I'm allowed to have boys in the kitchen!" That's really funny that she called to ask if they could play a video game in the living room. LOL. But I mean, come on, did their parents REALLY think there was a chance these girls were going to do anything sexual with their boyfriends?! Stacey mentioned in Stacey's Ex Boyfriend that she thought this rule was kind of stupid. I was glad that they at least recognized this.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 19:57:17 GMT -5
So...these books...is it supposed to be like we're reading their diaries or we're just some random friend that they're telling all this to?
Also, how did the notebook work? Did they actually take the book to jobs because they write in it during non-meeting days....BTW I totally hate it when they "interrupt" each other in the log.
"Today we sat for the Pike's..."
"You said it, Mal!"
WTF?
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Oct 9, 2007 21:09:10 GMT -5
Add me to the list of people who never thought it was weird that Nannie spent so much time with Emily Michelle I never found that weird at all. I used to spend a lot of time with my grandma growing up while my mom went to work (she had a part-time job at Kohl's a couple of days a week).
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 9, 2007 21:42:47 GMT -5
So...these books...is it supposed to be like we're reading their diaries or we're just some random friend that they're telling all this to? I'd go with random friend...they were always saying things like "I bet you're totally confused, right? Well, let me back up and introduce myself..."
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Post by bscfan81 on Oct 10, 2007 12:45:27 GMT -5
What made me laugh was that Dawn and Lewis went for a walk and then into the BARN. Kind of a literal "roll in the hay" huh? Not that it would ever happen it BSC-land.
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Post by janey83 on Oct 10, 2007 13:45:13 GMT -5
I never gave much thought to the close ages in the Pike household. My dad's family is really big, with a kid being born each year, so it didn't faze me -- and it wasn't uncommon for the older sibs to pitch in and look after the younger ones.
Anyway, I do start to question (which I never used to do! I just accepted the BSC world!) some things here and there, like...
How odd it was that the girls never had jobs from 5:30 to 6, on MWF. But here's something I was wondering -- the Kishis didn't seem to care that there were club meetings right around the time they were coming home from work and trying to get dinner started. I know that if it was my house, my parents wouldn't have been cool with that -- and how is it that the other parents were fine with their kids coming home in the dark after the meetings? Even if it's the same neighborhood, your 11 or 13 year old is alone, in the dark, on their way home, on FOOT.
Also....what parents let a teen sit for their SICK children? The Pikes did this a lot, and I really doubt this would happen IRL. Plus, Mal had mono and her parents totally left her in charge of Claire & Margo. Sure, it's just the 2 of them, but Mallory has just spent entire days sleeping -- do you think she could really handle sitting?
Okay, and lastly -- the way that 8th grade boys act in these books, or even 6th grade boys for that matter. In my experience, middle school boys were pretty immature (well, some of them were actually nice and okay to talk to in school and work with on projects), but I can't say that many of them would have been ready to date, much less plan fancy dates to....FRENCH RESTAURANTS. Here's proof....a few years ago, I was talking to a guy that I knew in 8th/9th grade and we got to talking about old times and I blurted out, "you know, I really liked you back then" and he said he knew, so of course I was like "how come you never told me?" and his response was something like, he was only 14 and didn't know what to say to girls. So, see? Guys are too young at that age to be with girls. The only couples I saw were the ones who would like, meet at the lockers in the morning to walk around, or sometimes they would sit together at lunch, but this was rare. Anyone agree?
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