Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Apr 29, 2006 2:32:40 GMT -5
Oh yeah, you're right. I just thought that if Carol was going to be around then why does he need Mrs. Bruen?
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jen
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Post by jen on Apr 29, 2006 8:28:35 GMT -5
Because Carol was above cleaning and cooking! Apparently she was messier than Mr Schafer or something...
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macca
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Post by macca on Apr 29, 2006 18:26:33 GMT -5
Because Carol was above cleaning and cooking! Apparently she was messier than Mr Schafer or something... Oh yeah, Carol was quite the new age feminist, with her baby being "Schafer-Olson" and everything. Nah, to be honest, I actually quite liked Carol.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Apr 30, 2006 1:42:47 GMT -5
I dunno. I liked Carol too. I liked her trying to be cool towards her stepkids. I would have appreciated that.
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Post by sotypical42483 on May 1, 2006 12:08:26 GMT -5
eh I was kinda iffy on Carol. I felt bad for her when Dawn was a complete b*tch to her in CA Girls, but I also kinda understood where she was coming from. Sometimes she tried a little TOO hard.
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jen
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Post by jen on May 2, 2006 1:18:04 GMT -5
Hmm... I liked Carol. I hated how Dawn treated her in CA Girls and in Dawn and the We <3 Kids Club.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on May 2, 2006 1:48:58 GMT -5
I think that Dawn doesn't want Carol to act like such a kid towards her because she already has one parent that she needs to look after - Sharon - putting things back that Sharon misplaces and checking her before she goes out.
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Post by sotypical42483 on May 2, 2006 11:53:35 GMT -5
^Really good point! I can totally see that.
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macca
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Post by macca on May 2, 2006 21:06:34 GMT -5
I think that Dawn doesn't want Carol to act like such a kid towards her because she already has one parent that she needs to look after - Sharon - putting things back that Sharon misplaces and checking her before she goes out. ;D Makes sense. d**n, Jack Schafer had a knack for picking the ditzy types. I guess that's fairly realistic though, that he goes for the same type of woman.
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Post by ktag on Jun 8, 2006 1:50:56 GMT -5
Hedge clippers in the bread box! Aren't hedge clippers bigger than a bread box? It was weird reading this one right after Mary Anne vs. Logan. Yesterday, Mary Anne was saying she wanted to graduate 8th grade before getting married and breaking up with Logan. Today, they're back together, married, and having an egg baby. Heh. Actually, I liked this book, other than the unsubtleness of the PSA. I did think it was dumb, though, how none of them realized that the whole point of the project was to scare them. And Mary Anne still seriously thought about what it would be like having a baby right now. Umm, you know that would require having *blush* sex first, right? Dork. I really don't think they put those two and two together. If they wanted to simulate a realistic marriage for teenagers, they should have given them the egg first. Would have liked to have seen more of Kristy and Alan's parenting instead of more Logan/MA drama. Loved how everyone else had high hopes for their eggs' futures, whereas Izzy was going to be a mechanic. I can't believe they had to do it for an entire month though. How did Richard and Sharon have no clue at the end that they were doing this project? Well, Sharon, okay. She probably tried to cook one of the eggs. The first apartment they looked at was $2000. I guess that's further proof of Stoneybrook being a high-income town.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 8, 2006 2:14:18 GMT -5
Yeah, but they all got married to each other, which was a tad creepy That cracks me up. Sammie was going to NYC, and Claud's kid was going to become a famous artist; living their mothers' own dreams. Maybe opening his own garage was Alan's dream. I also like how Dawn doesn't even like the guy she's married to, or the name of her child which he picked. Poor Dawn.
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Post by sugarmonkey on Jul 18, 2006 19:53:07 GMT -5
"If they wanted to simulate a realistic marriage for teenagers, they should have given them the egg first. "
He He. I read this thread quite awhile ago, but I just finished reading the book for the first time. ITA with everything that's been said already. I mean, I know what you guys said on here about how abnormally seriously the characters took this project, but I didn't realize...wow! Replace the egg. Don't cry because it's gone. Teach will never know!
I had to do a project like this in high school with a baby filled with uncooked rice (to make it weigh 5 pounds). I told my teacher at the end that I didn't learn anything. If I was forced to think of something it would be that lugging a baby doll to every class and then forgetting she existed until it was time for school the next day would not teach me how hard it is to be a parent. I had to keep a log of feeding, diapering, babysitting, bathing etc. I went to the mall, I didn't take my friggin' baby with me. And I didn't hire a babysitter (that I remember). My teacher didn't know I'd gone to the mall. Why bother?
The PSA overtones were heavy in this book. I would've just automatically given myself a great job. I would've said that the kid was in daycare while I was at school.
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macca
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Post by macca on Jul 18, 2006 21:44:52 GMT -5
Even if the eggs were marked in some way so the kids couldn't replace them, it's not worth CRYING over. They weren't crying because the feared a bad grade, they were crying because their little "baby" had been destroyed Excuse my ignorance, but what's PSA? For the record, though, your scenario is far more accurate than lugging the eggs/rice from class to class. If a teenager gets pregnant and keeps the baby, don't they either leave school or make alternate arrangements for the child's care during the day? I never heard of a girl getting pregnant in high school and bringing the baby to classes. Wouldn't it be a tad distracting?
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Post by greer on Jul 18, 2006 21:56:43 GMT -5
psa=public service annoncement.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2006 11:07:03 GMT -5
Yeah, I did both the egg baby in 8th grade and the "Baby Think It Over" doll in high school, and now I have my own son... while neither were very realistic, the baby doll was a lot better because it actually cried and if you smacked it against a wall or beat it (uh, not that I tried that...) it recorded it as child abuse. The egg was pointless.
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