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Post by aln1982 on Jun 30, 2007 23:38:58 GMT -5
^ Totally agree. It's at times like that when the Pike parents bug me. Then again, I'm a person whose parents have taken her with them on every vacation they have ever been on so things like that and a lot of the things in the BSC books could bother me because I can't relate to them. I've learned that I enjoy the books more if I just try to ignore these things that irritate me but sometimes this is too hard ;D
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Post by mckay on Jul 3, 2007 17:25:17 GMT -5
Well, they were bringing them along as hired help, so it makes sense that they'd want that help every night. It's not like they were friends of Mal's just coming along to socialize.
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Post by Lauren on Jul 3, 2007 22:42:38 GMT -5
Why did they even have kids if they couldn't even be bothered to take care of them?
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Post by sotypical42483 on Jul 3, 2007 23:36:32 GMT -5
Even though MA and Stacey were hired to sit for the kids, the Pikes could seriously give up ONE night so the girls could have fun with each other. I mean seriously what were they expecting them to do ALONE?! Outside of BSC-world, you wouldn't meet some dude to go on a date with and you'd just be bored to death! I mean would it kill them to spend ONE night with their children and allow the babysitters to enjoy themselves?! It's not like the girls were slacking all day and hanging out w/ one another - they were babysitting! They deserved a break too!
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Post by aln1982 on Jul 3, 2007 23:42:18 GMT -5
Why did they even have kids if they couldn't even be bothered to take care of them? Totally agree! This is something that really bothers me about people who seem to just want to get rid of their kids. But I'm lucky that my parents have always wanted me around.  I would hate the Pikes for things like this (and used to) but now force myself to try to overlook it and say "it is all contributing to the plot and not real life". |
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Post by Lauren on Jul 4, 2007 17:06:39 GMT -5
Off topic, but the ad at the top of the page is saying "Are you romantic?" and it made me think about Mr. and Mrs. Pike.
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Post by aln1982 on Jul 4, 2007 19:19:10 GMT -5
;D They definitely are something, having 8 kids. I love the links sometimes ;D
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Post by Katie on Jul 8, 2007 14:13:19 GMT -5
I never understood why they didn't take a break after the triplets. I would have been using multiple forms of birth control if I had a one year old and newborn triplets to ensure I didn't get pregnant again for a good long while but not the Pike's. Instead here's Vanessa lol.
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Post by Lauren on Jul 8, 2007 20:50:00 GMT -5
That drives me crazy too but I'm trying to look at it as simply a plot device.
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Post by aln1982 on Jul 8, 2007 23:32:03 GMT -5
^ Me too That's what I do for all of the things that would ordinarily bother me in the books. |
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Post by alula on Jul 9, 2007 3:01:13 GMT -5
Huh, I thought I already posted about this, but I actually think it's pretty irresponsible to send a thirteen-year-old on her "night off" to wonder around by herself in an area she doesn't really know. The girls may be there as hired help, but the Pikes are also in loco parentis for them this week. Two thirteen-year-olds together I don't mind; one seems a little sketchier, especially back in Ye Olde Days before cell phones. Sure, it seems like a nice, safe place, but bad stuff happens sometimes in nice, safe places. And I know these are the magical 13s, but still. Skeeves me out a bit.
I think it's perfectly healthy to want "just alone time" with your spouse, but if you're bringing along other minor children as baby-sitters, and your plan is to give them a night off each week, I think you'd better suck it up and plan on those nights being family time. Maybe you can even talk the sitters into making breakfast the next morning and getting the kids out of the house while you "sleep late"--but seriously, sending a thirteen-year-old out by herself at night? I find that pretty inapprorpiate. It's the kind of thing that, had it happened to me, I'd have gottn an immediate sucker punch that "Mom wouldn't like that" feeling and it might honestly affect whether I could go on a trip like that again. (It certainly would if I told my mother).
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Post by aln1982 on Jul 9, 2007 8:02:19 GMT -5
^ Agree if they were real 13 year olds but in the BSC world, 13 and 11 aren't really 13 and 11 ;D I think that's why I always imagine them as being much older.
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Post by magentanation on Jul 11, 2007 23:15:36 GMT -5
Haha the ad I'm getting on the top of the page says "Insomnia Facts...find options to help you sleep at night." Maybe the Pikes should look into this, since what they usually do when they can't sleep just keeps resulting in more Pikes. ;D
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Lauren
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Post by Lauren on Jul 11, 2007 23:20:17 GMT -5
ROFL. The ad I always see at the top of this page says "Are you romantic?" I think Mr. and Mrs. Pike definitely fit in that category.
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Post by secondhandshoes on Jul 11, 2007 23:47:57 GMT -5
Hahaha, I always see "Are you a slacker mom?"
Who comes up with these ads??
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