Claudia then adds that they have to be flexible because they are all busy. Yay for Claudia, Stacey, and Abby in this chapter, in all honesty. They’re all finally making sense and trying to take down K.Ron’s stupid rules.
Who ARE they in this chapter? Aliens replaced the real ones.
If the Rodowsky parents knew about this I bet they would stop using the BSC in an instant.
I am in no way an over-coddling parent, despite my daughter being the center of my world, but if I found out her babysitters had a nickname like that for her, they'd be fired. It's not meant to be a cutesy thing. They really mean his nickname in earnest.
Jackie climbs the tree again, this time even higher, with only a mere branch keeping him there.
Remember how hard they were on Mal when Nicky broke his finger? And they said she should have been watching closer?
Normally I don't pass up an opportunity to insult KRon, but I have to play Devils advocate here.
I'm not going to give her a free pass, and that's solely because I'm STILL mad at how she is such a hypocrite! It's TRUE that even the best caretaker can have an accident happen, but she didn't make allowances for Mal when her brother's finger was hit during a game of volleyball. Climbing a tree takes longer than that.
She really should have called them on the emergency number they left at this point, because their child could have a broken bone.
Did she carry Jacking inside, or did he walk?
They can do what the We Love Kids Club does and meet whenever it's convenient, or have set days but not expect everyone to come--- whoever can come, will come, and if they can't, someone can call them after if a job call came in that they're free for.
I think a fantastic way to do this would be whoever is at the meetings get first dibs on the jobs that come in. Even if you're out because of a class or a dr's appointment, if you're not there, you should expect that the jobs will be offered first to those who are there rather than them having to offer a job to all.
No, she is not even close to reasonable about lateness
Throughout the ENTIRE SERIES, the other girls have all been TERRIFIED about being even a minute late, to the point that they leave jobs as fast as they can because even being at a job isn't a good enough reason.
A job call comes in but no one call take it cause they're all busy, and again, I call bullshit that this has never happened before
It's happened. This is what Logan and Shannon were brought on board for. Is Logan at this meeting too, or just Shannon?
I'd also like to add that it might be nice to be able to have a babysitter from 5:30-6 on meeting days if they need to, instead of having to schedule their plans around the meetings.
As a parent, the idea of having to tell my friends I'll have to wait to give them an answer about plans they want to make until I can call the babysitters on Monday evening makes me cringe.
I've wondered at times if the parents in this town humor the girls and find so many reasons to hire babysitters just as a way to support kids trying to do a job. It's dumb to not even schedule going to the grocery store until you've lined up a babysitter during one of three meetings a week. It's rather...coincidental...that parents never need sitters during that sacred meeting time, or when the girls are all galavanting across the nation and to Europe. So...maybe they're just hiring the girls for the same reason most of us give a kid a quarter for a cup of warm, watery lemonade?
Mallory calls and wants to meet up; she feels empty and wants the feeling of being friends. Poor thing. She and Jessi are concerned about losing the others as friends.
This backs the shared belief here that, aside from their individual best friends, the girls in that club aren't truly friends.
I'm not going to give her a free pass, and that's solely because I'm STILL mad at how she is such a hypocrite! It's TRUE that even the best caretaker can have an accident happen, but she didn't make allowances for Mal when her brother's finger was hit during a game of volleyball. Climbing a tree takes longer than that.
That's exactly why I'm not either. She tore into Mallory for something that was a complete accident (and don't forget the Pikes were back at the time so she wasn't even in charge) and I have no doubt she'd have done the same thing in this situation had it been anyone but her sitting. We've seen Kristy go off on Stacey about stealing that ring and counterfit money while "claiming" she's worried about what the clients would think. Well, Kristy, what do you think your clients would think about not paying attention to Jackie to the point he was able to climb a tree and then moved a child after he fell and hit his head and didn't call 911 or doctor or anyone?
Don't forget that Kristy neglected to watch Karen for long enough that Karen managed to manually remove the paint from an entire care. Of course, Watson just laughed and said he'd been thinking about getting the car re-painted anyway....
That's right she did. Not that it matter Karen, and Kristy both got away with messing up. Kristy loves to brag that she's the best sitter in the world and no one is better then her in her complete know it all way. Yet in this case she did everything wrong.
Yet, Mary Anne when Jenny was sick didn't know what to do and she tried to call her dad, Jenny's doctor, Jenny's parents and Dawn. Then they decided to call 911. When Claudia broke her leg sitting for the Demon Child Betsy, she immediately instructs Betsy to call 911 and for Dawn and Mallory who were babysitting near by. When Buddy goes missing Dawn calls all over the neighborhood and after talking with Mrs. Pike (an adult) calls 911. Kristy, President of the Club, the one who brags the most about being the best babysitting and knowing everything the world....doesn't call 911, a doctor, Jackie's parents or anyone, and moves him.
And it sounds like she moved him pretty quickly. I am the least 911-callingest person in the world, but when a child blacks out for ANY period of time, they need to be checked for a concussion. Most black-outs only last a few seconds! If I got home and found out my child was ignored long enough to climb a tree and fall out of it, and no one called me or called 911, I'd never use that babysitter again.
It's easy to snark on Mary Anne overreacting when Jenny got that fever, but we, as adults, know how to handle a fever, and when to go in. Mary Anne didn't know, and when she couldn't reach an adult, erred on the side of caution and did the right thing.
Yeah, I had that theory as well. My theory came from reading the mystery series and wondering why all the crimes got solved by kids and then having the idiotic idea that the whole crime was a set-up, like how some people will pretend to be villains so a superhero kid can save the day. I don't know if that part makes sense. But I can totally see the adults wanting to support the kids and making up any excuse to have them babysit.
I mean, there are probably other options to find a sitter that are more convenient than waiting until 5:30 to 6:30 Mon, Wed, and Fri. Half an hour can go by really quickly sometimes. I get home at 5:30 and by the time I finish taking my dog for a walk, changing into my house clothes, and doing other little things, it's already six. It just seems stupid to me for someone to wait to use the BSC hours when they can just call somewhere else at a time more convenient to them and get a sitter. I headcanon now that the parents actually do have alternative sitters they use when the BSC is on vacation. They just don't make a big fuss about it because they don't want to discourage the BSC.
If you work regular business hours, you aren't clocking out until at least 5. Those parents have to rush home to call during that thrice-weekly half hour. 6:30-7 would be better.
Right, but it's a lot easier to make a quick call if you're home to do it. 5:30 isn't late enough for people with business-hours jobs to get home without rushing them.
In the girls' defense, holding meetings when it's late enough for kids to have had dinner, homework done, baths on bath-nights (most kids don't ned nightly baths, and taking them too frequently can dry skin and lead to rashes and years infections, like for my daughter, who can only take a bath every 3-4 days, or else she gets yeast infections), and whatever else, will be too late for them. I wouldn't want my kid at a cub meeting at 8:30-9 at night, and after having all else done, I wouldn't want to be a parent who now has to call when I want to be relaxing.
Its funny when someone (was it Stacey?) points out when switching meetings from Friday to Thursday, don't people go out on Fridays? Yeah, that's exactly when most parents would be going out for the evening on date nights, parties, etc. So you'd think they'd be in great demand for Friday night jobs. I doubt they'd want to wait around to call for a sitter, or wait until after six for their sitter to show up (cause you know they can't miss meetings).
Who ARE they in this chapter? Aliens replaced the real ones.
If the Rodowsky parents knew about this I bet they would stop using the BSC in an instant.
I am in no way an over-coddling parent, despite my daughter being the center of my world, but if I found out her babysitters had a nickname like that for her, they'd be fired. It's not meant to be a cutesy thing. They really mean his nickname in earnest.
Jackie climbs the tree again, this time even higher, with only a mere branch keeping him there.
Remember how hard they were on Mal when Nicky broke his finger? And they said she should have been watching closer?
Normally I don't pass up an opportunity to insult KRon, but I have to play Devils advocate here.
I'm not going to give her a free pass, and that's solely because I'm STILL mad at how she is such a hypocrite! It's TRUE that even the best caretaker can have an accident happen, but she didn't make allowances for Mal when her brother's finger was hit during a game of volleyball. Climbing a tree takes longer than that.
She really should have called them on the emergency number they left at this point, because their child could have a broken bone.
Did she carry Jacking inside, or did he walk?
They can do what the We Love Kids Club does and meet whenever it's convenient, or have set days but not expect everyone to come--- whoever can come, will come, and if they can't, someone can call them after if a job call came in that they're free for.
I think a fantastic way to do this would be whoever is at the meetings get first dibs on the jobs that come in. Even if you're out because of a class or a dr's appointment, if you're not there, you should expect that the jobs will be offered first to those who are there rather than them having to offer a job to all.
No, she is not even close to reasonable about lateness
Throughout the ENTIRE SERIES, the other girls have all been TERRIFIED about being even a minute late, to the point that they leave jobs as fast as they can because even being at a job isn't a good enough reason.
A job call comes in but no one call take it cause they're all busy, and again, I call bullshit that this has never happened before
It's happened. This is what Logan and Shannon were brought on board for. Is Logan at this meeting too, or just Shannon?
I'd also like to add that it might be nice to be able to have a babysitter from 5:30-6 on meeting days if they need to, instead of having to schedule their plans around the meetings.
As a parent, the idea of having to tell my friends I'll have to wait to give them an answer about plans they want to make until I can call the babysitters on Monday evening makes me cringe.
I've wondered at times if the parents in this town humor the girls and find so many reasons to hire babysitters just as a way to support kids trying to do a job. It's dumb to not even schedule going to the grocery store until you've lined up a babysitter during one of three meetings a week. It's rather...coincidental...that parents never need sitters during that sacred meeting time, or when the girls are all galavanting across the nation and to Europe. So...maybe they're just hiring the girls for the same reason most of us give a kid a quarter for a cup of warm, watery lemonade?
Mallory calls and wants to meet up; she feels empty and wants the feeling of being friends. Poor thing. She and Jessi are concerned about losing the others as friends.
This backs the shared belief here that, aside from their individual best friends, the girls in that club aren't truly friends.
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That's exactly why I'm not either. She tore into Mallory for something that was a complete accident (and don't forget the Pikes were back at the time so she wasn't even in charge) and I have no doubt she'd have done the same thing in this situation had it been anyone but her sitting. We've seen Kristy go off on Stacey about stealing that ring and counterfit money while "claiming" she's worried about what the clients would think. Well, Kristy, what do you think your clients would think about not paying attention to Jackie to the point he was able to climb a tree and then moved a child after he fell and hit his head and didn't call 911 or doctor or anyone?
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Yet, Mary Anne when Jenny was sick didn't know what to do and she tried to call her dad, Jenny's doctor, Jenny's parents and Dawn. Then they decided to call 911. When Claudia broke her leg sitting for the Demon Child Betsy, she immediately instructs Betsy to call 911 and for Dawn and Mallory who were babysitting near by. When Buddy goes missing Dawn calls all over the neighborhood and after talking with Mrs. Pike (an adult) calls 911. Kristy, President of the Club, the one who brags the most about being the best babysitting and knowing everything the world....doesn't call 911, a doctor, Jackie's parents or anyone, and moves him.
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It's easy to snark on Mary Anne overreacting when Jenny got that fever, but we, as adults, know how to handle a fever, and when to go in. Mary Anne didn't know, and when she couldn't reach an adult, erred on the side of caution and did the right thing.
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I mean, there are probably other options to find a sitter that are more convenient than waiting until 5:30 to 6:30 Mon, Wed, and Fri. Half an hour can go by really quickly sometimes. I get home at 5:30 and by the time I finish taking my dog for a walk, changing into my house clothes, and doing other little things, it's already six. It just seems stupid to me for someone to wait to use the BSC hours when they can just call somewhere else at a time more convenient to them and get a sitter. I headcanon now that the parents actually do have alternative sitters they use when the BSC is on vacation. They just don't make a big fuss about it because they don't want to discourage the BSC.
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In the girls' defense, holding meetings when it's late enough for kids to have had dinner, homework done, baths on bath-nights (most kids don't ned nightly baths, and taking them too frequently can dry skin and lead to rashes and years infections, like for my daughter, who can only take a bath every 3-4 days, or else she gets yeast infections), and whatever else, will be too late for them. I wouldn't want my kid at a cub meeting at 8:30-9 at night, and after having all else done, I wouldn't want to be a parent who now has to call when I want to be relaxing.
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