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Post by booklover85 on Feb 10, 2018 22:48:25 GMT -5
Why doesn't Kristy find extra members? IMO, nine members simply isn't enough. She could have asked Mal and Jessi to find potential babysitters in their grade. Ask Shannon if she knows anyone in her school that baby sits? Or Claudia in her art class? Or anyone else in the eighth grade?
Even if she doesn't like the new people, having hots of backup baby-sitters could do wonders for business and give the regular club members a break.
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Feb 12, 2018 11:07:26 GMT -5
That would have been a great idea. I especially think it was stupid not to find a new sitter when Dawn went to California for six months. I bet Kristy's experience with the Baby Sitters Agency made her anxious about having too many members. Maybe she wanted to personally vouch for each member and it would have been too hard to recruit quality sitters. Or maybe taking on more members would dilute the jobs too much. She wouldn't do that if she thought her own sitters would lose too much money.
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Post by andrew on Feb 13, 2018 12:17:57 GMT -5
Yeah, the existing club members kind of both expect and are expected to take jobs, it's pretty much a policy to assign the jobs out equally and with 7-9 members they occasionally had trouble finding enough jobs for all of them (I think that happened more often than no one being available).
And even accepting and liking the 7 members Kristy and others probably thought the room sometimes felt too crowded but the regular members going to the meetings was still good.
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Post by booklover85 on Feb 13, 2018 22:59:58 GMT -5
There should be more associate members, but I do understand how much crowded Claudia's room is going to be and the possibility of overbooking.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Mar 30, 2018 2:03:33 GMT -5
They do experiment with new members now and then. I'm guessing that Kristy worries about doing so because she's had so many bad experiences, like the saboteurs from the Agency in The Truth About Stacey, or Wendy's lack of reliability in Jessi and The Bad Baby-Sitter (although Wendy was actually a good babysitter - she just took on too many responsibilities at sitting times and kept turning up late). When she invited the Stevenson twins to join, she'd seen them with kids, and both of them seemed good enough to join (although I think Anna should have been an associate member - like Shannon, she needs to practice her music during meetings, but I'm sure she'd agree to fill in for a job as a last resort).
What about that, actually? Do you think the girls should have asked Anna to be an associate member, since she was good with kids and quite liked babysitting?
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Post by oldhickory on Mar 30, 2018 9:52:57 GMT -5
Yes, that would have been a great idea! I really like Anna and Shannon's friendship, and it would have been nice for them to have another thing in common. It seems like Anna beats Abby home a lot, so she could easily have been on-call. Just think of all the little kids who are musicians (Marilyn Arnold and Rosie come to mind immediately) who Anna could have sat for.
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 30, 2018 17:43:15 GMT -5
Anna as an associate would have made a whole lot of sense!
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Post by booklover85 on Apr 2, 2018 23:37:23 GMT -5
Yeah, Anna should have joined the Club. Given her nature, she would be among the favorite of the sitters.
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Post by Honeybee on Apr 25, 2018 22:50:53 GMT -5
They're should been more sitters. They could be associated members. I can see Anna baby sitting children, when she's not too busy.
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Post by msstock87 on Apr 28, 2018 19:45:31 GMT -5
I think Anna would have been great as an associate member. I liked her character.
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Post by fairy3lf2 on May 7, 2018 0:02:41 GMT -5
There was a post here awhile ago that I really agree with but I can't remember where it is or who wrote it.
It basically said that the BSC (or at least Kristy) always stresses about being too busy but all they have to do is take on more associate members. I remember it was also said that Charlie and Sam would probably take a job or two.
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Post by oldhickory on May 7, 2018 16:24:30 GMT -5
I hadn't heard that before, but I really like the idea of Sam and Charlie joining as associate members. Charlie is already pretty involved (driving Kristy and Abby to meetings, driving the baby parade float, etc), and Sam and Stacey have a pretty good friendship and I could see them tag-teaming some larger projects together. I actually think they could transition into members pretty easily.
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Post by cnj on Jul 11, 2021 18:31:19 GMT -5
It would have been great to see Anna join, if not as a full member, then as an associate member.
I'm thinking that once the BSC hit high school, they acquired a few new associate and alternate members, especially since in freshman year, they'd meet lots of new classmates that had not been at SMS.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Jul 11, 2021 18:42:51 GMT -5
I just remembered something else. In book #111, I think it is (Stacey's Secret Friend), Tess asks Stacey a few questions about the BSC, and Stacey, assuming she's interested, tells her that she can't join because the club is full up. Um, right. Okay, so she doesn't know Tess that well. But you have too much business as it is, so why blow someone off like that? I know Tess states after Stacey says that that she doesn't want to join, but what if she did? Maybe she was good with kids - we never actually find out because we never see her again, but my point is, Stacey literally says that with Abby having joined, they can't take on anyone else in their business.
There's also the question of whether Stacey really meant they were full up or if she just didn't want the weird girl everyone was making fun of to join, but that's another point entirely.
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Post by cnj on Jul 11, 2021 18:48:29 GMT -5
I just remembered something else. In book #111, I think it is (Stacey's Secret Friend), Tess asks Stacey a few questions about the BSC, and Stacey, assuming she's interested, tells her that she can't join because the club is full up. Um, right. Okay, so she doesn't know Tess that well. But you have too much business as it is, so why blow someone off like that? I know Tess states after Stacey says that that she doesn't want to join, but what if she did? Maybe she was good with kids - we never actually find out because we never see her again, but my point is, Stacey literally says that with Abby having joined, they can't take on anyone else in their business. There's also the question of whether Stacey really meant they were full up or if she just didn't want the weird girl everyone was making fun of to join, but that's another point entirely. I think it was that they thought they were full up. It would have been nice to see Tess join as an associate member. Face it, the BSC has its share of members who others considered "weird," so Tess really would not have stood out among the BSC. |
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