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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2007 12:06:53 GMT -5
The most unrealistic things for me would have to be:
In Dawn and the Big Sleepover, the school secretary just piles the BSC into her car and drives them to the elementary school--never gonna happen in real life.
All of the clients hiring 11 year olds to babysit for infants--doubtful
The children(especially the Pikes) being so well behaved
Letting an eleven year old baby sit while the kids are in the pool in Poor Mallory!
Watson being considered a "millionaire" when all of the families seemed pretty well off to me, especially the McGills.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Aug 2, 2007 23:57:44 GMT -5
^ And on the cover of Poor Mallory, she seemed to be lost in her thoughts of self-pity, not even (seemingly) facing the kids. Yikes!
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Post by Kylie90210 on Aug 6, 2007 22:40:31 GMT -5
The fact that Mal and Jessi babysat at 11 bugs me so much. Especially that they babay sat 10 year olds.
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Post by abbystevenson on Aug 6, 2007 22:48:03 GMT -5
Mallory and Jessi bug me, period. Not Jessi so much, but Mallory is whiny! I could see her babysitting her brothers, I guess, but not other clients' kids.
I got to thinking about it and the Pike triplets are actually pretty immature. Is that why Ann M. made them so immature, so that it wouldn't look weird when she had an 11 year old sitting for a 10 year old?
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Post by sotypical42483 on Aug 7, 2007 13:00:57 GMT -5
Dawn & the Big Sleepover is one giant WTF for me. A bunch of 13 year olds organize this event for all the elementary kids? Yeah, right. Who in their right mind would even want to do that? Fairs and daycamps and stuff with 15 kids I can understand a bit, but the sleepover is ridiculous.
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Post by aln1982 on Aug 7, 2007 15:21:53 GMT -5
^ I always actually thought the sleepover sounded kind of fun. Not that I personally would have gone but it is a nice idea ;D Maybe just fun to read about, anyway, since I agree that it probably isn't realistic that 13 year olds would want to organize something like that (though it reminds me of the lock-ins that my church youth group used to organize so maybe). I guess without the sleepover there wouldn't have been a plot and I always like reading about those things but that's just me.
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Post by blossom114 on Aug 7, 2007 16:12:57 GMT -5
^ I enjoyed it too...though yeah looking back on it it's not realistic...but I enjoyed the book all the same
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Post by ringdings on Aug 7, 2007 16:57:22 GMT -5
^^Weren't there only one or two teachers at the sleepover, and the rest were baby-sitters?
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Post by Kylie90210 on Aug 7, 2007 18:48:00 GMT -5
I think maybe 3 teachers? But yeah, mostly the BSC.
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Post by abbystevenson on Aug 7, 2007 21:16:57 GMT -5
I think that there was three. I enjoyed this book a lot!
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Post by magentanation on Aug 9, 2007 22:17:21 GMT -5
That's a great liability issue if they only had 3 teachers on, since they had, what....40 some-odd kids there?
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Post by aln1982 on Aug 9, 2007 23:10:49 GMT -5
^ Agree but I don't think the BSC books are that concerned with liability ;D If they were, there would be lots of differences (and it makes my head hurt thinking about it. Too much "real life" for me right now ;D)
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Post by wanderingfrog on Aug 12, 2007 10:04:22 GMT -5
I don't think the actual logistics of the sleepover were very realistic at all, what with there only being three teachers, but I actually think that the BSC wanting to do that was much more realistic than all those carnivals. It was a reward as an incentive for the kids doing a lot of fundraising for a specific cause that was very important to them, whereas the carnivals were more like, "Hey, I'm not doing anything the last weekend in May. Let's spend a month organizing a carnival for everyone in the entire neighbourhood and maybe make four whole dollars!"
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Post by aln1982 on Aug 12, 2007 16:26:22 GMT -5
^ Agree. Truthfully, I never bothered giving many of these things too much thought, the logistics or how realistic they were, at least. I just took them as presented and enjoyed reading about the kids and community having fun. I think the unrealistic aspects of the book actually add to my enjoyment of them by helping me create a fantasy world (if this makes sense....)
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Post by Kylie90210 on Aug 12, 2007 21:22:38 GMT -5
I'm with you aln. I never really often stop and think about whether it's realistic, unless something really isn't.
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