What If the Clients Found the Club Notebook?

[booklover85]

I read a similar question in the BSC Snark community and here goes: What will the clients reactions be if they read about all of the mean stuff their baby sitters wrote in their notebook back in the day?

[memory]

some would be happy somne would not

[oldhickory]

The Pike triplets read the notebook when they were babysitters in training, and they didn't like it at all. The sitters have a lot of familiarity with the Pikes and I'm sure they were a little less polite than with some of the other kids though. But I think it would always be unnerving to read someone else's thoughts on you, especially if you didn't realize how closely they were paying attention.

[andrew]

Jenny would be surprised at how disliked she was and demand her parents never use the club again, she would probably even be mad at Mary Anne due to her association with the others.

[booboobrewer]

If the clients read about their kids, that would be like a grown up version of Harriet the Spy! That would have made a good book...Kristy would jump into action, thinking of crazy ways the club would make it up to parents, haha.

[Sideshowjazz1]

I wish that had been written. That would make a pretty funny premise. I remember the first page of the first book I read was from book #21 about the Arnold twins' birthday party, and it went something like this:

Dawn: Wow, what a party!
Mary Anne: So what did you think of the twins, Dawn?
Dawn: I think they're brats, Mary Anne.
Mallory: They aren't. I've got them all figured out.
Mary Anne: You're prejudiced, Mal, because you've been the main sitter for them.
Mallory: No, I really have figured them out. But let's talk about the job. Over to you, Dawn.

Can you imagine how the twins would react to that? I mean, obviously they're not brats anymore, this was before they started developing individual identities, but the fact that Mary Anne and Dawn both considered them brats would probably not help them like them. Even so, they'd probably want Mallory to always sit for them.

[Honeybee]

If, the clients found the notebook. They'll probably tell the Baby-Sitters. They can't baby sit, they're kids anymore. Kristy, will have to explain it to them.

[cnj]

Feb 4, 2018 15:19:59 GMT -5 Honeybee said:

If, the clients found the notebook. They'll probably tell the Baby-Sitters. They can't baby sit, they're kids anymore. Kristy, will have to explain it to them.

Not to worry, that notebook was usually kept in Claudia's room.

None of the BSC girls would be careless enough to leave the notebook lying about where either the clients or the parents could find it.

Remember that the girls wrote about their babysitting experiences AFTER they left a client's house...usually in the privacy of their own room or at a BSC meeting in Claudia's room.

And they were all good about safeguarding that notebook so it never fell into the wrong hands.

[cnj]

Jan 9, 2018 17:38:57 GMT -5 booklover85 said:

I read a similar question in the BSC Snark community and here goes: What will the clients reactions be if they read about all of the mean stuff their baby sitters wrote in their notebook back in the day?

Besides, none of the BSC girls ever wrote anything really mean about either the parents or the kids.

[greer]

Aug 29, 2018 5:09:24 GMT -5 cnj said:

Jan 9, 2018 17:38:57 GMT -5 booklover85 said:

I read a similar question in the BSC Snark community and here goes: What will the clients reactions be if they read about all of the mean stuff their baby sitters wrote in their notebook back in the day?

Besides, none of the BSC girls ever wrote anything really mean about either the parents or the kids.

Except for stuff like the direct quote above! Certainly it would hurt a kid’s feelings and anger their parents to be referred to as a “brat,” and they definitely wrote less-than-nice things about Jenny Prezzioso and, to an extent, Jackie Rodowsky.

[cnj]

Jul 17, 2019 8:56:02 GMT -5 greer said:

Aug 29, 2018 5:09:24 GMT -5 cnj said:

Besides, none of the BSC girls ever wrote anything really mean about either the parents or the kids.

Except for stuff like the direct quote above! Certainly it would hurt a kid’s feelings and anger their parents to be referred to as a “brat,” and they definitely wrote less-than-nice things about Jenny Prezzioso and, to an extent, Jackie Rodowsky.

LOL...that's why they safeguarded that notebook.

But I laugh thinking that maybe when the BSC charges are far older, maybe when they're all adults, they'd all have a reunion and they'd all share a good laugh over the notebook.

I like the camraderie the BSC shared and they passed that camraderie on to their clients.

[CharlotteTJohanssen]

I would love to see this happen as a plot or something. Maybe not as kids but as adults that would be kind of fun for them to think back and what happened. They'd all get a good laugh.

[cnj]

May 17, 2020 22:54:00 GMT -5 CharlotteTJohanssen said:

I would love to see this happen as a plot or something. Maybe not as kids but as adults that would be kind of fun for them to think back and what happened. They'd all get a good laugh.

Now that I can see. That would be a great reunion plotline.

[CharlotteTJohanssen]

If they were caught though, I can imagine lots of hurt feelings and losing some clients. I don’t think Jenny would appreciate being called a brat.

[sparklymouse]

That was basically a plot to the 90s TV show. The kids didn't read it, but they found out about it. I remember the girls trying to set the kids up by using the notebook as a base during a softball game. Like the kids were going to slide into base and then sit down and read it. Charlotte was very upset with Stacey because she told Stacey private things that Stacey then told to the other club members. In the end nobody had read the notebook. Matt Braddock was lipreading secrets and then spreading them around. Sneaky.