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Post by ringdings on May 15, 2007 10:37:56 GMT -5
Here's something that always bothered me...Abby said her mother used to take classes at the Culinary Institute of America, which is in Hyde Park, NY. Unless I missed something, Abby had lived on Long Island all her life.
Some books said that Mrs. Stevenson took classes before Abby and Anna were born, others say that she took them when they were kids.
Hyde Park is about a three-hour drive from Long Island.
Now I know that Mrs. S. loves to commute, but somehow I think AMM just threw in CIA because it's such a prestigious culiary school.
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Post by greer on May 16, 2007 8:48:29 GMT -5
I was shocked when I went there last year... The first thing I thought was, no way could mrs. Stevenson do this commute!
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Post by blossom114 on May 31, 2007 10:15:12 GMT -5
I was just thining about this last night. In #18..seriously who would let a 13 year old girl have a boy/girl party without parental supervision?
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Post by aln1982 on May 31, 2007 10:29:28 GMT -5
^ I ignore these type of unrealistic things (like leaving an 11 year old alone for the weekend with an 8 year old and baby) by pretending the girls are older. They do seem older, so then it doesn't bother me and I don't even consider it. But if you consider them 13, there are many unrealistic things....
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Post by Lauren on Jun 21, 2007 14:28:44 GMT -5
I always thought it unrealistic how baby-sitting was pretty much their whole lives. It seemed like that was all they did.
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Post by morbiddadestiny on Jun 21, 2007 23:58:28 GMT -5
I was just thining about this last night. In #18..seriously who would let a 13 year old girl have a boy/girl party without parental supervision? uh, the headmistress of my middle school and half of the other 6th grade parents!
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Post by sotypical42483 on Jun 23, 2007 12:17:04 GMT -5
I agree with gracie. They took babysitting WAAAY too seriously. I'm reading MA & the Bad Luck Mystery or whatever right now and Jessi sits for Jamie and is frantically trying to think of activities and MA is like "some sitters just watch TV and don't pay attention to the kids. Jessi would NEVER do that! None of us would!!"
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Post by magentanation on Jul 11, 2007 22:49:16 GMT -5
^They always acted like letting the kids watch TV would be about on the same level as tying them to a chair and feeding them rat poison. I mean, yeah children shouldn't be parked in front of the the TV 24/7, but the BSC really went out of their way to make sure the kids never watched any TV at all. It was always like "No, you can't watch TV, you'll turn into a pile of dust as soon as you turn the set on! Why don't we go over to where Stacey is baby-sitting so we can brainstorm ideas for our 27th carnival this month!"
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Post by aln1982 on Jul 11, 2007 23:25:58 GMT -5
^ I never got what the huge deal was about watching tv, either, even though I barely ever watched any as a kid. I was just too busy playing outside and reading, though. But I think I could have thought up so many fun things I would have wanted to do with the BSC (I absolutely loved being around older kids ;D) that I wouldn't have even considered watching it. But I don't get why the books made it out like it was going to kill the kids, or something.
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Post by liss31d on Jul 12, 2007 3:19:53 GMT -5
I know! That bugged me so much in Jessi and the Awful Secret when Kristy and her Mum told the kids that they could only watch The Wizard of Oz movie until Dorothy leaves Munchkinland, then Stacey will have to turn it off... that's only a half an hour into the movie! Then when Stacey switched it off, David Michael says "Now what do we do?" If they don't have anything else to do, why not let them watch the whole movie instead of stopping it a third of the way through??!
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Post by aln1982 on Jul 12, 2007 8:08:32 GMT -5
^ I don't remember that but it makes no sense at all. What is the difference between half a movie and the whole thing (unless the end was to traumatic or something - but can't see that for that one)?
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Post by magentanation on Jul 12, 2007 9:06:49 GMT -5
^That bugged the heck out of me, too. Even if Elizabeth had a daily TV limit for the younger kids, couldn't she have loosened it up a little for a freaking MOVIE? What's the fun of watching only 30 minutes of a 2 hour movie?
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Post by blossom114 on Jul 12, 2007 9:17:32 GMT -5
^ oh man that would've peeved me off because of my Judy Garland obsession Lolol
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Post by liss31d on Jul 12, 2007 10:04:58 GMT -5
Elizabeth is pretty weird in general about TV. I remember in the first book, Kristy tells Stacey when she's babysitting for David Michael for the first time that they're not allowed to watch videos when their Mum's not there... umm why exactly?
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Post by sotypical42483 on Jul 12, 2007 12:30:26 GMT -5
They're really inconsistent with the TV thing sometimes, though. There are plenty of times where they say they settled so and so charge in with a movie or found Sesame Street on TV or whatever.
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