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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2006 19:53:43 GMT -5
There seems to be a lot of talk about the parenting, or lack there of, in the BSC. Out of the BSC girls parents, which one would you say is the worst, the nominees are...
Mr. and Mrs. Pike: Sex addicts who dump their offspring on their eldest daughter. Very lax parenting style, except for strage phobia about sparkles.
Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey: Hello DCFS !(deparment of children and family services, in case you're wondering) Left their 8 year old and infant in the care of their 11 year old daughter for the weekend.
Mr. Thomas: Ran out on the Thomas family. Doesn't pay child support. Deadbeat dad from central casting.
Mr. McGill: I actually haven't read much of the later Stacey books, but from this board he sounds very selfish.
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inge
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Post by inge on Sept 12, 2006 0:49:55 GMT -5
Well, obviously I'm going to say Mr. Thomas. A lot of the parents are... well, not that great, but running out on your family, not paying child support and forgetting your kids' birthdays is the worst.
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Post by hitzpink on Sept 12, 2006 10:43:35 GMT -5
Yeah, Mr. Thomas was the worst but I'm not going to count him in my vote. I'm just going by the ones who were actually involved with the girls.
So my vote is a tie between Mr. McGill and the Pikes. Mr. McGill was such a jerk, totally insensitive, and selfish. And the Pikes.. UGH! I hated how they ALWAYS made Mallory watch the kids and put so much responsibility on her. They bug me so much. Did they ever spend any time with their own kids? Because it sure didn't seem like it.
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inge
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Post by inge on Sept 12, 2006 10:57:05 GMT -5
Total word, if Mr. Thomas wasn't included it would've been the Pike parents. Whenever one of the BSC members go on about how they're such great parents and you can learn a lot from them, etc, I'm like: huh??
Since babysitting is such a big deal in BSC world, I wonder why they never mention if any of the parents babysat when they were younger. Just a thought that occured to me...
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Post by starrynight on Sept 12, 2006 13:32:58 GMT -5
Mr. Thomas, definitely.
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Post by claudiascandystash on Sept 12, 2006 17:07:32 GMT -5
I can't really rag on the Pikes, because my mom is also from a large family (she has 10 brothers and sisters), and it was just the rule that the older ones watched the younger ones if the parents were out or working. If you didn't like it, well that was too damned bad, lol.
At least Mallory is lucky and likely gets paid for some of it!
My vote for worst BSC parents would likely go to the Delaneys (dude- if your kids care that much about cash and how expensive things are, then you also put waaaay to emphasis on it), or the Barretts. Who A) doesn't remember when the ex husband has visitation, and won't let the kids speak to him on the phone....or B) kidnaps your own kid just to prove a point? That is seriously messed up. Then Hamilton Sr. totally pulls a Mr. Thomas part of the ways through the series and you never hear from him again. Classic.
*amber*
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Post by hitzpink on Sept 12, 2006 21:21:41 GMT -5
^Oh, yeah, the Barretts were pretty bad.
I can understand the Pikes expecting Mallory to help out and watch the kids every once in awhile when they went to run a couple errands or have a date night or something. But it seemed like she was always stuck watching them and running around after them while her parents were home. Like, Claire would spill a glass of juice on the table and Mrs. Pike would go, "oh Mallory can you clean that up?" and then five minutes later Nicky would fall and cut his finger and Mrs. Pike would go, "oh Mallory can you go help your brother?" and etc etc etc.
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Post by macca on Sept 12, 2006 23:29:07 GMT -5
While I had "issues" with a lot of the BSC parents, my vote definitely goes to Mr Thomas.
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Post by lisa on Sept 13, 2006 4:33:05 GMT -5
I wasn't sure about Mrs. Stevenson...I think she spent too much of her time commuting to and from work and a very minimal time at home.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Sept 13, 2006 16:35:32 GMT -5
Out of those I chose Mr. Thomas because he abandoned his family. But out of active parents, I would choose MRS. BARRETT. BY FAR. I can't stand her.
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Post by buffykay70 on Sept 14, 2006 7:21:09 GMT -5
sharon was pretty crappy. moving her kids across the country just after she and their father divorced. like she didnt see them moving back to cali. was coming. then again she was a head case. she got what she deserved.
mr mcgill was an ass. insensitive and a workaholic jerk. no wonder stacey chose to move to stoneybrook over glam new york.
the pikes were freaks. over sexed and breeding like rabbits or really devout catholics (like those racist kids said). and they ordered mal around so much to do all the chores and crap. and they always had to hire a baby sitter like every weekend and every time they went to sea city the whole club had to come and baby sit cos they were freakin lazy.
mr thomas - everyone knows about this idiot.
mrs barrett was a b*tch too. she didnt seem to spend much time with her kids, was almost a bigger ditz than sharon and got married so fast after her divorce from the kids father. never liked her at all, glamourous chesnut curls or not.
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Post by baseballchica03 on Sept 23, 2006 18:35:38 GMT -5
I wasn't sure about Mrs. Stevenson...I think she spent too much of her time commuting to and from work and a very minimal time at home. I understand Mrs. Stevenson, though. Both of her girls are 13, pretty capable of taking care of themselves, and she has just one income. True, she is a workaholic, and if they can afford a home in Stoneybrook while she works in the city, her job must be bringing in quite a bit of money. But it's not like she's leaving little, little ones in the care of someone who's just a kid herself for long periods of time/all the time. I cut her a little more slack than I would the Ramseys or Pikes. (Or Mrs. Barrett.)
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Post by wanderingfrog on Sept 25, 2006 12:26:05 GMT -5
I didn't vote in the poll, because, as some other people have also said, I think Mr. Thomas is the worst BSC parent, but since he is such a deadbeat dad and completely uninvolved in his kids' lives, I'm not even sure he counts as a parent. Besides him, I'd have to say Mr. McGill is the worst BSC parent. Total workaholic. Although yesterday I was skimming through Stacey's Problem, and it appears that at the very end of the series, he has started to remove his head from his ass. In general, I think the Ramseys are pretty good parents, but leaving an 11-year-old in charge of her siblings for an entire weekend while they're out of town is so disgustingly neglectful (and also out of character) that I'd like to pretend it didn't happen.
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Post by fairy3lf2 on Sept 25, 2006 18:08:18 GMT -5
What book does that happen with the Ramseys? I think that nowdays, with birth control readily available, people shouldn't have eight kids if they aren't prepared to take care of them most of the time.
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Post by ktag on Sept 25, 2006 18:42:41 GMT -5
^Island Adventure. I wonder if the tongue lashing they got from Aunt Cecelia was what opened their eyes and made them ask her to move in with them despite Jessi's tantrums later on.
What about before they moved to Stoneybrook? She basically ignored her 9 year old daughters, who had to throw themselves into constant after school activities so they didn't have to be alone.
Elizabeth left her pretty young kids home alone to fend for themselves, but that was because they had no money rather than neglect. At least when she came home, she'd spend time with her kids and they didn't have to eat tv dinners by themselves.
I don't think I can vote either. The more I think about it, the less I think of the BSC's parents. Their love of babysitting must be a result of lacking in their own childhoods.
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