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Post by wenonah4th on Nov 12, 2011 16:20:38 GMT -5
Easily believable in his 20s or even early college. Nothing like being idealisticat 19!
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Post by bookwormv1 on Nov 13, 2011 4:13:18 GMT -5
^I get carsick easily; I can only imagine the seasickness I would get if I ever took a cruise! I though that too (I get terrible motion sickness) but in the past year I've been on the ferry a few times and a couple of years ago I went on a boat tour for a couple of hours and I was fine So you might be okay, I've never been on a cruise ship though, always though it sounded like fun. I'd say Island adventure is up there, if only for the simple fact that two thirteen year olds were allowed t take a ten year old (who could sail I'm fine with that), a nine year ols (who always seemed to have a good head on her shoulder until Little Liar but again I'm okay with that), a completely unathletic nine year old (getting a little worried here but lets roll with it) and a four year old. Not just any four year old, a four year old who's barely over some sort of ear infection (it's been a little while since I read the book). Two thirteen year olds CANNOT take a sickly four year old sailing. JUST NO. With all that said I absolutley love the book
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Post by Honeybee on May 16, 2013 17:54:38 GMT -5
I agreed with Jessi being alone with her younger sister & younger brother, for the weekend. What was Mr. & Mrs. Ramsey thinking? Does Jessi knows, what to do, if a robber decide to rob their house? What about another emergencies? Like the emergency was serious. She had take Becca & Squirt to the hospital. She will called 911. They picked her up. Then, at the hospital. Does she knows her siblings medical records? Of course, doctor is going ask her. Where is your parents? Will Jessi tell the truth, and say: Oh, my parents away for the weekend. I'm baby-sitting my younger sister and brother. I'm 11. Well, you know, CPS will be on their way. Unless, she's good at lying. Saying, oh my dad is at work. My mom is coming in soon. She has park the car. But, be suspicious. If, Mrs. Ramsey doesn't show up. What if, the house caught on fire. Does she have a place to stay? Mr. & Mrs. Ramsey never thought about emergencies, and CPS taking their children away from them. Didn't Jessi, said in the book. She can be responsible person, to take of herself and her siblings. Proof to her parents, she can be alone. Mr. & Mrs. Ramsey, should say no. Not old enough. We're going call the Pike family, see if they can watch you three. If, Jessi didn't like it or not. Sometimes, you need break from baby sitting. So, in Stronybrook, they must not have CPS. Cause, in real life. Those kids will be taken away. Mr. & Mrs. Ramsey, will fight getting their kids back. They will never heard the end of it, as long they live.
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Post by supprazz on May 17, 2013 11:33:31 GMT -5
^ I don't blame aunt cecilia for being upset. If I were the parents, I would not be okay with her going if I wasn't in town.
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Post by virgoscorpio on May 17, 2013 13:44:47 GMT -5
I think the series would have been a lot different if it were written by a younger author. I feel that Ann really based most things on her childhood experiences, which were probably way different in the '50s and '60s than they were in the '80s and '90s and beyond. I'm sure she was able to babysit at 11 or 13 and have much more responsibility, as did kids she knew. Even in Beverly Cleary's books, Ramona is able to walk home herself in kindergarten. That would never happen now. As with kids working early, I don't know what the child labour laws were back then but I bet they were less strict. Also, I feel like the books were heavily trying to produce good role-models which is why none of the sitters watched TV and they were always so productive.
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Post by Honeybee on May 18, 2013 22:58:40 GMT -5
In the book of The Farmer Boy (Written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.) Almanzo, his older brother, & two older sisters. We're home alone for a whole week. While their parents were away. The oldest was 13. That was 19 century. So, that really change over a century.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 19, 2013 14:14:08 GMT -5
The Ramona books are so interesting because they were written over such a spread-out period of time, between *Beezus and Ramona* in 1955 or so to *Ramona's World* in 2000.
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Post by virgoscorpio on May 19, 2013 14:42:40 GMT -5
Yeah, I really enjoyed that -- especially when reading them all at once.
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Post by mallorypike on Dec 3, 2013 17:13:40 GMT -5
I think (I may be wrong, I'm not sure) in one book one of the sitters suggested that they could pay Janine to drive Kristy to BSC meetings. Claudia totally disagreed by saying,"No! Janine is a genius!" Or something like that ;D I'm not even entirely sure if this was mentioned during the series...I may have been dreaming ;D I dream about the BSC a lot ;D
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Post by greer on Dec 3, 2013 17:17:03 GMT -5
I think (I may be wrong, I'm not sure) in one book one of the sitters suggested that they could pay Janine to drive Kristy to BSC meetings. Claudia totally disagreed by saying,"No! Janine is a genius!" Or something like that ;D I'm not even entirely sure if this was mentioned during the series...I may have been dreaming ;D I dream about the BSC a lot ;D Janine doesn't drive. You may be thinking of where Kristy suggested that maybe Janine and Charlie sit sometimes, when they are competing with the Agency.
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Post by mallorypike on Dec 3, 2013 17:30:23 GMT -5
I can see not using a recipe but think it would turn out in a mess (isn't that what Gabbie wanted to make was "green mess?" ;D) I would say that was more luck than anything. Lol, I remember when my little sister and I were little (I was nine and she was four), we both made cookies under the supervision of our parents. We basically did what the Perkins girls did: add food coloring in the cookies. However, instead of green, we made pink cookies. We were obsessed with pink back then (aren't all little girls? ;D). But we ended up making a mess and the recipe didn't go well at all. We had to clean up the 'pink mess' and re-bake the cookies. And we used to bake cookies with my mom ALL THE TIME. And we still made mistakes. I guess the Perkins girls are one trillion percent perfect. Now I love them and all but I kinda want to rant about them now...I guess I will post my rants in the Perkins girls thread ;D
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Post by mallorypike on Dec 3, 2013 17:46:19 GMT -5
I think (I may be wrong, I'm not sure) in one book one of the sitters suggested that they could pay Janine to drive Kristy to BSC meetings. Claudia totally disagreed by saying,"No! Janine is a genius!" Or something like that ;D I'm not even entirely sure if this was mentioned during the series...I may have been dreaming ;D I dream about the BSC a lot ;D Janine doesn't drive. You may be thinking of where Kristy suggested that maybe Janine and Charlie sit sometimes, when they are competing with the Agency. Ohhh...I remember now! Thanks, Greer
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Post by maddieruns on Dec 3, 2013 23:59:50 GMT -5
Lol I like your scenario where Claudia says Janine doesn’t drive because she is a genius, mallorypike. I think there's an episode in the Big Bang Theory where Sheldon doesn't drive because he's too evolved.
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Post by thejunkbucket on Sept 13, 2015 20:16:05 GMT -5
Remember, 11-year-old Jessi was not only in charge of a baby and an 8-year-old for an entire weekend, but a three-day holiday weekend!
Incidentally, I also found it unrealistic that parents would let two 13-year-old (female) sitters, who'd just learned to sail, to take their kids boating in the open sea to a far-away island you can't see from shore. First of all, like it or not, many people still have old-fashioned ideas about gender roles and capabilities. I can see possibly some parents being okay with 13-year-old boys taking their kids sailing, but only if said boys were very experienced and certainly not to an island way out in the middle of the ocean.
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Post by thejunkbucket on Sept 13, 2015 20:42:44 GMT -5
This nitpick is more for the 1995 movie, but that 16+ club in NYC that Stacey and her foreign exchange student crush attempt to get into but are denied access by the bouncer, who doesn't buy Stacey's fake ID. First of all, where would there be such a place that a 16-year-old can attend but not a 13-year-old? And what would be the point of having such a club, anyway? 18+ in the US can attend regular clubs; they just can't be served alcohol and have their hands stamped so the bartender knows they're under 21. I did that when I turned 18. But 16-/17-year-olds, even though a lot of them are driving, are still legally children.
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