macca
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by macca on Oct 19, 2007 16:27:10 GMT -5
^ ha, I haven't taken the books seriously for a long time, but I do enjoy them and they have their endearing moments!
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bscmad
New To Stoneybrook
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Post by bscmad on Nov 2, 2008 13:25:27 GMT -5
wow i didnt think about a lot of this stuff until I posted here okay I noticed the Jessi's black thing mentioned every book and why the members never had sitting jobs during meeting times. The Pike kids being so close in age never occured to me though.
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Post by cokiemason on Nov 2, 2008 19:21:14 GMT -5
I think the we love kids club members had a cell phone... One of the things I remember reading, and it bugged the nuts out of me, was, i think in the first book, and the girls are talking about how long their parents have been married. I think it's Stacey and Claudia talking and both of their parents have been married over 20 years (one of them said 25 years). Their kids are 13 and 15! Do people really wait 10 years into a marriage to have kids? nuts, my parents got married when I was almost a year old and my brother was in the belly... But that would NEVER happen is BSC-Land Also, I found it so annoying that the parents were never like "Hey, I need a sitter cause its my sisters 30th bday party and we are going bar hopping!"... Mrs. Barrett especially... she seemed like a wild one! But no one even went out with friends, out for dinner, nothing. Just cause you have kids doesnt mean you cant have a friggin beer!
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Post by greer on Nov 3, 2008 13:59:49 GMT -5
My parents were married for twelve years before they had kids. Plus I do recall people going out for dinner. In addition, probably the baby-sitters couldn't sit late enough/overnight and the parents hired older sitters--although there are a few overnight jobs. I recall people going out to dinner and stuff though. The Brewers, the Pikes, the Newtons...
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Post by wenonah4th on Nov 4, 2008 6:30:45 GMT -5
My best friend's parents had been married almost thirteen years when she was born, and she's an only child. Now, whether they had been trying for a while I have no idea. I was born when my parents had been married close to eight years and I know they didn't try until they'd been married more than five, but my mother miscarried twice and then brought me to term.
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Post by firecausesburns on Mar 29, 2009 7:03:30 GMT -5
My cousin was born ten years into his parents' marriage. (They'd been having a lot of trouble conceiving, and after years of trying they decided that if it hadn't happened by March, they'd give up and start travelling. March rolls around, they start preparing to travel, and what do you know?) So that didn't really bother me. I think I remember something about Stacey's parents not being able to have any more children, so maybe it took a while for everything to work out and Stacey to come along? Going back to the adoption topic, am I crazy, or was one of Karen's classmates adopted? I know there was a book where Karen's class had a "Family Day" and families came and people told stories, and I have a feeling someone brought his adoptive parents.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Mar 29, 2009 21:51:58 GMT -5
I thought Karen got Watson to bring Emily? And was bragging about how EM is adopted?
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Post by firecausesburns on Mar 30, 2009 3:31:48 GMT -5
I found the chapter I was looking for (it's in Karen's Twin), and it turns out that the kid (from the other second-grade class) brought his foster parents, he wasn't adopted.
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Post by wenonah4th on Mar 30, 2009 5:45:30 GMT -5
That's surprising; I was under the impression that foster children had to be in public school.
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Post by greer on Mar 31, 2009 4:35:25 GMT -5
Really? Regulations vary from state to state, though.
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Post by wenonah4th on Mar 31, 2009 5:22:11 GMT -5
What very little I know about foster care comes from people who otherwise homeschool, and I can't even remember in what state (these are folks I only know online). They've had to have kids in public school, do vaccines, etc, that they wouldn't be doing with their own kids, because that's the way they're required by the state. (Not being categorical about vaccines one way or another, just that the people I'm referring to prefer non-vax but the state requires vax for foster.)
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Post by greer on Mar 31, 2009 6:42:26 GMT -5
Perhaps it's just homeschooling that the state would not prefer and they're down with parochial and private schools?
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Post by wenonah4th on Mar 31, 2009 7:12:29 GMT -5
The cynic in me says that's likely!
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 31, 2009 18:49:59 GMT -5
I never thought of how oddly weird it was for Nannie to suddenly be EM's mother. Also to quote a poster from yikes 3 years ago, "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." Why were Elizabeth and Watson keeping EM "hidden?" Also, don't parents adopting from a foriegn country have to actually go to the foriegn country to pick up the child? In some cases even meet the prospective child beforehand? oh, I just thought of something that I never had before, we know Watson is a millionaire, prominent citizen, etc, and Elizabeth was said to be a great mom, despite the fact that she dumped EM on her mom, but that's another story, my question is why in the world did a social worker, person from EM's orphange, ever come to the Brewer mansion to at least meet the family if not also do a home study of some sort? When did the sitters read that notebook? Great question. Surely there could not have been time during meetings for ALL of them to read it. Lol, they sure must have had memories like elephants to remember their schedules. Speaking of which, was it just me or did it seem like as the books went on that the majority of the sitting was done by Mal, Jessi, or MA? ITA, about the warped view of teenage dating. Please Stacey was only 13 and had like 10 exes or something? And one in Ethan who was two years older than she was, that she was allowed to traipse through NY with unaccompanied. Lol, I guess that got around the no boys allowed in the house without mom aside from the kitchen or living room. Also at Dad's house, Christmas Chiller, apparently Mr. McGill had no qualms about Ethan being in his place and Stacey being alone with Ethan (and Claudia) in E's. The other thing that truly bugged me and I actually started making a list a couple weeks ago of the bsc clients was that the majority of families were either all girls, 1 boy/1 girl, or the ever-popular 2 girls and 1 boy! Ann and the Ghosties could have been a little more creative! Finally, for all Mal and Jessi's complaining about not being allowed to sit at night, when did they ever talk to their respective parents about this rule? Um never?
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Post by wenonah4th on Apr 1, 2009 5:28:12 GMT -5
I suppose they might have thought it a futile battle to bring it up. The parents probably established at the outset of when the girls began sitting that they couldn't babysit at night yet.
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