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Post by Kylie90210 on Nov 11, 2008 23:31:19 GMT -5
Please discuss this book here.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Nov 12, 2008 17:02:48 GMT -5
This one always stands out as one of my favorites. Take Your Daughter to Work Day sounded like fun and made me think about how I would go spend time with my dad in his office in Chicago when I was little (he does computer work for a law firm). The food descriptions were great and I liked the Wacky Cracky Bubble Gum commercial Karen and her class got to be in thanks to Elizabeth  . |
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 4, 2008 19:53:10 GMT -5
Watson sucked in this one! Would Elizabeth really have been that hurt if her 7 year old step-daughter didn't think her job was interesting? I hate how sometimes he seems to really force Karen and Elizabeth's relationship. And who expects a little girl to pay attention and take notes during a business meeting? Of course in the end Elizabeth had a totally cool, fun job and made Karen popular with her classmates. I think the idea of Take Your Daughter to Work Day is interesting, but I've never seen anyone actually participate. (I've seen kids at their parents' jobs, just not on the official day.) But I live in kind of a blue collar town, and (for example) Take Your Daughter to the Factory Day doesn't sound like such a safe idea. |
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Post by annieb on Dec 10, 2008 21:23:17 GMT -5
I liked Karen and Elizabeth's interaction in this book. Contrary to the book Karen's stepmother! Elizabeth seems like a nice stepmother.
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Post by anzuhana on Dec 22, 2010 14:14:51 GMT -5
I liked Karen and Elizabeth's interaction in the book. I liked the bubble gum commercial that Karen and her class participated in.
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Post by virgoscorpio on May 13, 2011 16:40:28 GMT -5
We had Take Our KIDS to Work Day when I was in Grade 9 or something. I thought it was interesting how in this book only GIRLS could go visit their parents. I guess it was to try to promote women in the work-field and also that mostly girls read the Little Sister series -- but come on!
Although it is funny that the girls got to go to work and the boys had to stay in school with Ms. Colman.
LOL at Karen thinking her parents' jobs are boring. Watson's job reminds me of Vicki on the Real Housewives of Orange County because she makes millions selling insurance from her mansion, too!
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Post by virgoscorpio on May 13, 2011 16:58:58 GMT -5
Oh, and another thing -- something that bothered me in this book was how the ghostwriter kept calling Shannon a HE!
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Post by u4me on May 13, 2011 18:36:11 GMT -5
I went with my mom to Take Your Daughter to Work Day when I was 12. She worked at a bank. It wasn't very interesting, but it was fun to miss school and the absence was excused.
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Post by lilafowler on May 13, 2011 22:31:04 GMT -5
We had Take Our KIDS to Work Day when I was in Grade 9 or something. I thought it was interesting how in this book only GIRLS could go visit their parents. I guess it was to try to promote women in the work-field and also that mostly girls read the Little Sister series -- but come on! It originally was specifically "Take Our Daughters..." and it actually was created (by Gloria Steinem, no less) with that feminist goal of promoting women in the work force in mind. They didn't add sons to the name until fairly recently; definitely after the BSC books stopped being published. When I was in high school it was still technically just daughters and the day was only an excused absence for girls. |
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Post by virgoscorpio on May 16, 2011 14:15:05 GMT -5
Thanks for clarifying that, lilaflower. I figured there was some feminist involvement there (which I thought was nice). But I do like how -- when I did it -- it included both boys and girls; no one was excluded.
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Post by zoar3 on Jan 21, 2014 21:55:48 GMT -5
I just finished reading and aside from Karen's punishment really enjoyed. This book has a nice spring-y feel with all the flower talk and my Grandma loved lilacs (Karen mentions Watson has a lilac tree). My favorite parts were reading about David Michael's play about Marvin the Sunflower and how he and his friends save their friend a hen from possibly being killed. I would have enjoyed reading more of the dialog for that. And I loved when Nannie danced around with Karen in the kitchen in celebration of Karen's news about being in the gum commercial. Nannie (outside of Karen's Birthday and parts of Cooking Contest) is a whole lot more endearing in the LS series, sort of like Karen herself. Both of them are characters instead of more caricatures if that makes sense. As for the main plot, we often post about lack of communication being a problem in BSC books. This is an example of where if Elizabeth had shared with Karen a little of what the meeting would be like, things probably would have gone better. I did feel badly for Karen at the meeting, it sounded boring to me, too. And I also appreciated (it was sweet of her to think of that) Karen realizing if she asked her Mom or Seth to Career Day at School it might hurt her Dad and Elizabeth's feelings. But the way that scene was written IDK, I just felt badly for Karen feeling like because it was a big house month that automatically meant only her big house parents could participate. I think it would have been awesome had Karen brought Lisa or Seth to career day because she had already shared about Watson and Elizabeth and the idea of the "day" seemed to be to share about the more possible jobs the better. Unrelated, I understand this was a day for daughters but thought Watson or Elizabeth could have (to our knowledge) invited David Michael and Andrew, if he wanted, to come to work with them another day. O/T, I did wonder how the six boys in Ms. Colman's class spent the day and if any of them thought about going to work with their parents. I could go on about all the birthday gifts but won't except to say when did Kristy like cats and sewing so much (she with help from MA made her mom a cat shaped pillow) and I loved the idea of Karen's family collage for Elizabeth's office. |
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Post by msstock87 on Jan 21, 2014 23:24:37 GMT -5
It has been a little while since I read this one, but I do remember enjoying it. I think Elizabeth should have explained a little more to Karen what the meeting was about too, it might have gone over a lot better.
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Post by scrounge on Jan 23, 2014 13:45:21 GMT -5
I hadn't read this one in ages so I dug it out and I remember why I don't read it often. It really is boring. I kind of wish Karen had been told/understood more about Elizabeth's job before she went to work with her. I don't like that the class randomly gets to be in a bubble gum commercial without any of their parents signing releases or being told in advance so the kids can look nice. It's like Karen only cared about Elizabeth's job when there was something in it for her.
I do like the subplot with them planning a surprise for Elizabeth's birthday but I still roll my eyes when the children in Stoneybrook write so many plays.
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Post by Honeybee on Oct 23, 2014 18:25:45 GMT -5
I enjoy reading this book.
Elizabeth should explain the meeting to Karen, what the meeting is about. Any meeting is boring.
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Post by livvy on Jan 13, 2023 23:21:08 GMT -5
This Take Your Daughter To Work Day is sexist and an out of date concept and I'm glad we don't have anything like that in Australia.
Can you imagine Karen being quiet during an hour long meeting? I thought Karen was a little young to be taken on her stepmother and fathers jobs. And of course a seven year old would find their jobs boring.
Not one of my favourites.
And also why didn't Karen ask Seth or Lisa?
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