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Post by claudiaslastringding on May 19, 2014 6:51:08 GMT -5
Yeah I can remember really wanting to read more about Kristy and Alan in this book as well. I think they would have been really funny to read about, I can just imagine them bickering the whole time, which would have been more exciting than Logan and Mary Anne in my opinion.
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Post by wenonah4th on Oct 11, 2014 6:12:10 GMT -5
Agreed!
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Post by Enigma on Jan 24, 2016 1:53:31 GMT -5
Of course the perfect BSC girls would take an assignment like this seriously but I'm surprised their not-so-perfect classmates do so as well. Realistically when caring for real babies, I'd think even a normal 13 year old, much less a 'mini-adult BSC member" would be able to prioritize and 'neglect' their eggs to focus on the real babies.
As a kid when I read this for the first time, I thought Dawn's mom was going to get pregnant at the end of the book and was disappointed when she didn't; I think Mary Anne and Dawn each sharing a new half sibling and caring for a newborn baby would have made an interesting twist in the middle books.
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 22, 2016 20:28:15 GMT -5
I was wondering how big Sammie's wicker basket was, how large the handle was. Logan carried it around school? That said, I love baskets and sometimes carry a small one as a purse. I think I would have no problem toting an egg in a basket everywhere I love that Stacey grew weary of the project quickly. The 2,000 a month apartment Mary Anne screeches about. "What does it come with? 14 bathrooms and a private plane?" "What if Sharon had gotten pregnant right away..." Yes, Sharon's going to go do that RIGHT NOW because you and Dawn want a little sister. Ugh. Imagine how this book would have been if Peter had written it, or Abby was in it. It would have been much crazier, haha.
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Post by silverneurotic on Aug 23, 2016 20:53:38 GMT -5
I killed my friend's egg baby when we had to do this. Oops.
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Post by starfire13 on Aug 25, 2016 13:08:32 GMT -5
I always hated reading this book because I can't believe that US schools make kids do this. I would've effing hated having to tote around an egg as a teen. I knew at a young age that I never wanted children, and that I had goals in mind. I never needed to learn responsibility through a forced social experiment. I am now a 27 year old high school teacher who happily owns a 3-bedroom house on her own and a car, with zero intentions of ever having children. These egg-baby experiments always piss me off.
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Post by anzuhana on Aug 26, 2016 6:59:35 GMT -5
The closest thing to carrying around an egg I saw was in high school. There were some students that had to carry those babies that would cry at certain times. I remember one of those dolls crying in class and the teacher asking the student to leave the classroom with the doll until it stopped crying.
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Post by silverneurotic on Aug 26, 2016 11:26:33 GMT -5
I was never sure of what the point of the project was though. From experience, it did not deter teen pregnancy. At least in my school district.
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Post by anzuhana on Aug 26, 2016 19:56:58 GMT -5
I guess if you had to deter teen pregnancy, the doll would seem like a better option since it does cry but I'm not sure how effective it is. I would have to look into it.
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Post by Honeybee on Apr 15, 2019 23:01:32 GMT -5
I read this book, on Libby Library App. (I’m starting to read ebooks. I still like reading physical books.) Anyways, last time, I read this book was in high school. I forgot what it was about. So I start rereading the book again. They’re were some funny scenes that me laugh.
Remind me the time, when I was in high school. The school I went to, had parenting class. (I didn’t take the class.) One of The classmate in the classroom, I was in. Had a baby doll. He used a special key, to put the key in the back of baby’s back. He had turn it, hold it until it stop crying. He’ll let go of the key, to see if the baby doll was still crying or not. If the baby was still crying. He’ll turn the key to make the baby stop crying. His teacher will monitor how long should the baby kept on crying. I’m not sure if the students pretend to get married or not.
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Post by merrymelody on Jun 20, 2020 3:08:59 GMT -5
We never did anything like this at my school, although apparently some UK ones did, judging from the book 'Flour Babies'.
I love all the 'you won't understand til you have one!' TBH, that and the 'you're hogging the baby!' is definitely stuff you hear a bunch from first time parents, until they wise up a little and realise you've got 18 years minimum with the little one, just let someone hold it so you can go pee on your own.
If I were the twins mom, I'd have been ticked that Mary Anne was squeezing in my actual babies care in between prioritising a stupid egg, though. Same for Kristy at the Papadakises.
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Post by swizzles on Sept 30, 2020 8:31:57 GMT -5
This book was absurd! As someone previously noted, it barely felt like a BSC book and almost more like a YA fiction plot shoe-horned into this series. I couldn’t buy the way they were all taking their roles so seriously. I mean, I can understand each person in each couple starting to inadvertently second guess the other person or try and take over the responsibility. But I don’t believe the way everyone readily thought of their eggs as children and naturally had such inane conversations about feeding and being shy or nervous. (Nobody made a ‘he/she’s really coming out of her shell’ joke? I’m disappointed!) The idea that goofball Alan suddenly turned into super parent is insane. Thank the lord for Stacey, the only normal person here!
I loved the scene at the Gianellis. I can’t quite explain this, but the way Bobby was written (especially his dialogue) seemed to imbue him with the quiet sophistication of a much older male. Very calm, collected, happy to repeat what he said since you didn’t seem to hear him the first time. All business. Most intriguing!
This book really highlighted the supposed chasm in maturity between the lowly sixth graders and the wiser eighth graders. I’m not saying Mallory’s joke about the word ‘hogging’ reminding her of bacon and therefore eggs was funny, but I think she has the right idea in laughing at the ludicrous seriousness with which MA went on and on about sammie (though surely Mallory should have completed her joke with a bacon and egg sammie... go the whole hog if you will... I’m done).
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Sept 30, 2020 13:04:28 GMT -5
My school offered a child development class and they had this project with a baby doll. I never took it but my friend did and it was crazy sometimes. They never went off in class but they did at like 2am. The bsc too it too seriously but it is hilarious to read. I love how stacey was so over it. swizzles the Bobby scene made me laugh I liked it too.. I like the Gianellis and sometimes have to wonder why we have to dislike him because Karen does., Also really liked the pike scene too, they were creative with the shopping bags and the doll house.
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 25, 2022 15:12:49 GMT -5
Boy twin looks a little like Chucky. Just how high is his high chair?! That baby is on a ladder. This looks super angsty like Mary Anne is pregnant.
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Post by hurricanebill on Mar 26, 2022 3:42:13 GMT -5
🤣🤣🤣 it’s so funny yet so depressing. Some of these covers remind me of old school Degrassi
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