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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 4, 2011 19:18:47 GMT -5
I love that Emily calls Claudia "Ko-ee" and Janine "Nee-nee"
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Post by Katie on Dec 30, 2011 1:29:12 GMT -5
I've been looking at Emily a little differently now that I have a 21 month old child with an expressive language delay. We do so many things with our son to try to get him talking and he sees a speech pathologist once a week and is on a waiting list for a preschool program for language delayed children. But the brewer-thomas clan hires Claudia?
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Post by greer on Dec 30, 2011 11:24:44 GMT -5
...yeah. Good job, Thomas-Brewers. If they hired her in addition to a professional for the purpose of practicing with someone not in the family, that'd be one thing, but hiring a thirteen-year-old who can't even spell basic words to take control of your daughter's therapy? Bad move.
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Post by candykane on Dec 30, 2011 11:29:23 GMT -5
Just another example of how Watson is cheap as hell. Didn't he make Karen pay for her own bike (or half of it)?
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Post by Katie on Dec 30, 2011 11:36:10 GMT -5
Yes he made her pay for half of the bike but then he bought her a pony so it seemed Watson was inconsistent in his cheapness.
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Post by zoar3 on Dec 30, 2011 12:16:18 GMT -5
It seemed to me that Kristy was more concerned with Emily than her mom or Watson was. Nannie was Emily's mother 90%+ of the time the remainder divided between Kristy/BSC and Elizabeth and Watson. With regards to Emily and school, since she never aged, we never got to find out how she ever did at preschool "in the Fall." I don't think that would go over very well unless Nannie enrolled herself. Poor Emily, even though I never really liked her character much, I thought Ann and Co did a horrible injustice both to her and to us readers. Most likely Emily's magical coming sort of like Richard and Sharon's wedding was supposed to add stars to the eyes of young readers as they awwwed and wished for similar things in their future. Logistics would have taken away from all that or so (possibly) reasoned the Ghosties. As for Watson my favorite "money" moment of his is when Kristy tells us in "Mr. Mom" that Watson the millionaire didn't have enough change for lunch money for the kids.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 30, 2011 13:33:13 GMT -5
Maybe Watson and Elizabeth had Emily just so they could "have a child together"? A lot of couples probably feel that way, especially women who may have had other children with other men. Maybe it's a hormonal thing; wanting to breed with your spouse (even though Emily wasn't biologically theirs, it probably has something to do with Elizabeth's age and also having a baby would put her career on hold -- a big BSC no-no).
Anyway, that has been my impression somewhat. Also, Emily bridges the Brewer and Thomas family together.
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Post by oldhickory on Dec 30, 2011 15:25:27 GMT -5
i can't speak for any other parents and i have lots of respect for parents who are involved with their children, but not all kids benefit from their parents nervously watching their every move. in fact i think that would be a really easy way to shake the kid's confidence and give her the message that she isn't smart enough. maybe the TBs weren't being cheap, they were just trying to treat her as normally as possible. what worked for my sister in that situation was just talking to her constantly, and asking her questions, and getting her involved in conversations, and that's exactly what EM had with claudia. and let's not forget that kristy is worrying about EM independently, even though her parents have told her EM is learning fine, and it turned out that they were right all along. maureen even tells us that kristy tends to overreact.
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Post by zoar3 on Dec 30, 2011 16:54:50 GMT -5
^I totally loved how Claudia worked with Emily. All I was trying to say is that in general it always seemed to me like Elizabeth and Watson did not spend much time with Emily. I would have hated had any of them constantly surrounded Emily or been in her face, that isn't too healthy for any child. It might have been nice if all the TB's spent more time with one another. But then, in BSC-land most of the time the girl's families were in the background. As for Emily being what tied the two families together, I sort of thought that insulted Emily and was not what she needed at all. It was lucky none of them ever pressured her to be their link. I wished the TB's had bonded before deciding to bring aboard another family member. If they had, all of them probably would have benefited but that's just my two cents. P.S. So good to see you posting again, Oldhickory.
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Post by oldhickory on Dec 31, 2011 3:28:20 GMT -5
oh i agree with all that. i just meant that the TBs weren't necessarily being "cheap" by not sending EM to a specialist. and thanks!
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Post by zoar3 on Dec 31, 2011 13:20:51 GMT -5
^ ITA. They, the TB's supposedly had the special family which was all Emily needed! When Emily first came to Stoneybrook she was already 2, right? I know like, Squirt, she de-aged a few times. I think with her she held much more steady at 2 1/2 (I believe once was "almost 3") than Squirt did at either 14 months or "a toddler." My point is that she was one of the characters that sufferred most from the time warp and that could be why I never was endeared to her. Emily always=the TB's adopted her, Nannie took almost full-time care of her, and oh yeah, Kristy thought she was adorable and at times, Karen labelled her a pest. The end. The Claudia scenes were one of the first times (remember I have not read many LS books) we saw more of Emily herself as an individual. I think if that had lasted maybe (hopefully) at long last, the family would have rallied around her and themselves to be more of a family.
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 31, 2011 20:39:11 GMT -5
I don't think Emily is necessarily any more developed in the LS books, but Karen treats her and talks about her like an average younger sibling. I prefer that to the special "kid gloves" treatment she gets from the adults.
Emily was chillin (can't believe I just wrote that. I'm so hip.) in a Vietnamese orphanage before the TBs came along. She definitely had a better life post adoption regardless of who did the most work with her.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 4, 2012 18:46:13 GMT -5
I was thinking about Emily Michelle and Angelina Jolie's kids today. Random, I know. I remembered an interview where Angelina said she hired tutors for each of her kids to teach them about the culture/history of their birth countries. So it got me thinking, do you think Watson and Elizabeth would embrace Emily's background or try to "Americanize" her as much as possible? I'm thinking the latter since the rest of the kids seemed to know squat about Vietnam and didn't show an interest in learning.
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Post by Katie on Jan 7, 2012 11:53:35 GMT -5
Karen would probably find some way to incorporate Emily's heritage into the family if only for the excuse of celebrating another holiday. The girl loved her holidays to the point that she invented new ones more than once (augustania and brother's day). She would want to know about Vietnamese holidays and celebrate them.
In 'Claudia and The Great Search' there is a part where Emily is compared to Marnie Barrett and Gabby Perkins by Claudia. I didn't think a comparison to Gabby 'super genius' Perkins was fair
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Post by Honeybee on Oct 8, 2013 5:14:19 GMT -5
^ I don't think it's fair that Claudia compared with Gabby Perkins super genius baby.
That's what lot of parents do. They compared with other babies or what they read in magazines. Each baby is different.
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