bsclover18
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Post by bsclover18 on Dec 23, 2008 14:08:32 GMT -5
I liked Gabbie but she seemed too old. I think they're kinda an inconsistency to the toddlers-half of them are really under developed and half of them are over developed.
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Post by wenonah4th on Dec 29, 2008 12:40:40 GMT -5
We know that Emily is a bit delayed, although I expect that if time passed she'd catch up pretty quickly to at least average for her age, once she was more accustomed to the US.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Jan 8, 2009 15:15:19 GMT -5
My cousin's daughter will be two in a few months, and she can sing "My Favorite Things." I guess Gabbie's talent for knowing songs is possible!
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Post by starlett2010 on Jan 8, 2009 19:42:16 GMT -5
^Aw that's so cute! At 3 I knew TONS of songs and could recite by memory so I don't think Gabbie's singing abilities are odd. It's just word and pitch imitation so it wouldn't be too hard for a little kid, IMO. They probably wouldn't understand a lot of what they were singing, though. I know I sure didn't! And my parents used that to their advantage! They'd make me sing songs by the Police and the Cars at the dinner parties!
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Post by wenonah4th on May 22, 2009 13:11:56 GMT -5
My daughter, who's a couple months away from turning 3, has been picking up songs lately. She really likes that old one "Rubberband Man" (look on Youtube under that title and you'll find both a Muppet show routine and a Staples commercial....)
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Post by starlett2010 on May 22, 2009 17:22:09 GMT -5
One thing that really bugged me was how Emily Michelle was portrayed as "delayed" or whatever because she couldn't fully speak English yet. In one of the books, I think it was a SS (Shadow Lake?) but I could be wrong, one of the sitters (Claudia?) is watching Emily (and possibly Andrew) and talks about how Emily was talking nonsense to herself. That ALWAYS bugs me because maybe Emily isn't speaking nonsense, perhaps she's speaking her native language...VIETNAMESE!!!!!
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Post by greer on May 22, 2009 21:03:16 GMT -5
I feel like she didn't really talk much when she came... she was only 2 and lived in an orphanage, after all. The only word they ever mentioned her saying in Vietnamese is "mei."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2009 13:55:54 GMT -5
I always thought Gabbie seemed to talk to clearly for a 2 and a half year old. Even the ones I know of that know a lot of words don't say them all perfectly all the time. There's advanced kids, sure, but she seemed a little unrealisticly advanced...like maybe 3 and a half would have been a better age for her. I also found it weird that she could be on the krushers, even if she did use a wiffle ball. I always thought it would involve way too much co ordination for a toddler.
I always thought it made sense that Emily Michelle was a bit behind. I once babysat a girl that had 3 languages spoken equally in her home, and she didn't have a firm grasp of any of them at 2 and a half. If you're surrounded by a language you previously haven't heard, you won't pick it up right away. Though, if time ever advanced in the BSC books...even like 6 months, I'm pretty sure Emily Michelle would be talking great English non stop, kids learn stuff fast. I t hink she seeemed slower to me because time was a little frozen in BSC-land.
One question, did Marnie Barrett ever talk? I definately think she should have a little....at least most kids do by that age, but I don't remember it happening.
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Post by wenonah4th on Aug 12, 2009 7:16:49 GMT -5
It must be a bit difficult to get a child's speech written right, just like accents.
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Post by sarish on Aug 12, 2009 21:49:35 GMT -5
I actually don't think Gabby is too out of the ordinary for her age...I've been babysitting for this little girl, whose name is incidentally Gabby, and she is only 18 months right now. She is very very smart, and I think in a year she will be very similar to Gabbie Perkins. She already can identify a ton of animals, using more specific names than turtle for instance. I hold up a card and she immediately says it is a sea turtle. She can dribble a ball, speaks very clearly and in sentences, and knows complete songs and sings them. So, I could definitely see her being to the level that Gabbie Perkins is at, in a year. : )
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 16, 2009 18:54:03 GMT -5
I always thought Gabbie seemed to talk to clearly for a 2 and a half year old. Even the ones I know of that know a lot of words don't say them all perfectly all the time. There's advanced kids, sure, but she seemed a little unrealistically advanced...like maybe 3 and a half would have been a better age for her. I also found it weird that she could be on the krushers, even if she did use a wiffle ball. I always thought it would involve way too much co ordination for a toddler. I have very little contact with kids in my real life, so I'm just picturing the Jon & Kate + 8 kids. They were 3 in the first season. If one of them bumped into another one they all fell down like dominos. I'm having a hard time picturing someone that age on a softball team too.
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Post by otempora541 on Aug 17, 2009 11:04:52 GMT -5
I have very little contact with kids in my real life, so I'm just picturing the Jon & Kate + 8 kids. They were 3 in the first season. If one of them bumped into another one they all fell down like dominos. I'm having a hard time picturing someone that age on a softball team too. Hasn't it been said that all that Gabbie did was hit a ball or two and then wandered off? I can't imagine a two year old with the patience to sit through a softball game.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2009 15:14:22 GMT -5
Hmm I'd go for Gabby solely for the fact that she would call people by their full name. E.g. How are you Marry-Anne Spier?
I find that creepy yet cute ;D
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 13, 2009 18:11:50 GMT -5
I taught a class of 8 two year olds a few years ago. One little girl was 2 1/2 at the start of September (the oldest) and the three youngest were all boys who literally began preschool a few days after they had turned 2 in October. The four children in between varied from being a big talker to only talking with other children to only talking (pretty much) one on one with me mainly but also other teachers/adults. Back to the BSC, lol, I agree that Gabbie calling (all)? people not in her family? by their first and last names rang a bit creepy after a while, DoctorZ. Yes, it was cute but...shrug didn't seem "right." Marnie, , I finally on this re-read of the series "heard" her talk in "Kristy's Mystery Admirer." On page 90, MA is walking the Barrett kids to Krusher's practice. "They set off, Buddy and Suzi chattering away, and Marnie pointing at things and crying out, "Doggie! Big Doggie!" and, "Smell flowers, Mary Anne," and "Play Ball!" which made everyone laugh, since she said it just like a sportscaster." I don't recall Marnie ever talking again! Emily, as far as I remember, only said one word at a time such as "cookie." Squirt? He gravitated between starting out at 14 months to jumping to 2 to regressing back to one and a half....I don't think (other than "up" and "down" in "Poor Mallory" when he wants Jessi to walk him up/down the stairs, he ever said any clear words..just stuff like "Drr-Glo.." Ryan DeWitt, I honestly don't remember many specifics about, haven't gotten that far in re-reads this time along. Did Sari ever say anything? Besides in #33 Claudia and the Great Search, when she picks up most all of the Ring Around the Rosie song Page 63. I wish we had gotten to see Emily and Sari (heck even Skylar) play together more. Skylar, lol, I don't recall which book but know she was a "he" at least once, and possibly in the same book where the ghostwriter claimed she was in preschool. Now, in the real world, 2 going on 3 in preschool is typical. BSC-Land it seems like Jamie Newton's case he didn't start until 4. Nina Marshall until 3 or 4? And it was stated that Andrew, Karen and eventually Emily would start at 3, so suddenly Skylar had aged a year! I think that was in one of the later books for some reason I'm thinking "Kristy and the Sister War.." The main thing that annoyed me about babies in the bsc was that with the exception of Nancy Dawes brother in the LS series and all right Abby's nephew in Abby and the Mystery Baby, all new babies or third (youngest kids in a 3 kid family) were girls. (Lucy, Laura, Andrea, (why the BSC cannot guess she'd be a girl was beyond me), Tara Gardella. 3's: 2 boys and one girl (I mean) Barretts Kuhns Kormans Lowells (racist family only featured once). Papadakis That to me got "stale" after a while.
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Post by firecausesburns on Sept 13, 2009 20:40:20 GMT -5
I think Ryan spoke a bit more than Marnie did. I remember him being scared and asking for a hug or something in the chapter where they go to a petting zoo, and trying to say he's thirsty but not getting the TH sound in Here Come The Bridesmaids.
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