#3 - The Truth About Stacey

[kissoffools]

Hello there! First time snarker, long time fan. As it so happens, I took a Baby-Sitters Club book out of the library the other day - I’m going to pretend I didn’t see the look the librarian gave me - because I was a stupid high schooler who sold all her BSC books in a yard sale in a fit of I’m-growing-up-ness. Little did I know that I would want

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[amor_demi_alma]

OMG, I love this, I want more!!!! You should do a Mallory book.
Adored the whole thing, but this line literally made me LOL: "He’ll feel better when he’s twenty-three and his
sister is nineteen and he can threaten all her potential boyfriends with a shotgun or something." XDDDD

[kissoffools]

:D I'm glad you liked it!

[promisemewings]

Mrs. McGill wants to call the doctor because Stacey lost three pounds. Seriously, Mama McGill, chill out. Three pounds, even for a diabetic, is not the end of the world.
True, Maureen freaks out a bit too much over Stacey's diabetes, but I think this is why Stacey feels she's too overbearing. I'd rather have a mother who's overly concerned about my health than a mother who doesn't do crap about it.

I also always thought the Johanssen’s were black, for some reason. That is, until we met Jessi and learned how AMM and the ghosties would deal with a black character.
WIN.

Kristy invites Stacey over after school - but doesn’t invite Mary Anne and Claudia. Am I the only one who thinks that’s weird? Since when do Kristy and Stacey hang out?
Exactly! Unless Claud has an art class and Mary Anne's daddy still won't let her out to do anything if she's not baby-sitting. IDK.

what mom leaves her new baby alone with anyone mere days after she’s been born? I'm always kind of amazed when I see new mothers bringing their barely-a-week-old

[sgrfrostedflake]

Kristy doesn't ban gum, Wendy chews some in Jessi and the Bad Babysitter. (At least on the cover, haven't read that book in a while so can't be sure it happens in the text.)

[promisemewings]

You've got a point there.

[sgrfrostedflake]

"Claudia’s entry is written in cursive writing. And there is NOT ONE SPELLING MISTAKE. NOT A ONE."

Doesn't Claudia always write in cursive?

[rational_twists]

Yeah, she does. Unless the new books have it displayed more neatly. I *hated* reading Claudia's chicken scratch in the old books (though not nearly as much as I hated being blinded by Jessi's handwriting).

[hih_unitymods]

Yeah, the cursive in the new books is really neat and tidy, which is why it threw me off. I never think of Claudia's writing in the original books as being cursive because it's total chicken scratch! But the weird part was that there wasn't a spelling mistake in sight. CRAZY.

[sgrfrostedflake]

I always found Jessi's writing really difficult to read.

Yeah, I forgot that the re-release might have different writing. And NO SPELLING MISTAKES? From Claudia? Sacrilege!

[fairest1]

Why the hell would she want a baby-sitter for a newborn the day she gave birth? I find it somewhat disturbing how readily the adults in this series will hand over their offspring to anyone who offers.

[rational_twists]

This. My boyfriend's sister just had a baby in February and only Nana is allowed to babysit, which is NOT often. I wouldn't let anybody outside my immediate family watch my newborn for even 5 minutes. If you're not a person who can't get enough of your baby, then don't have kids.

[fairest1]

There's the off chance that PPD kicked in unexpectedly or you realize too late that the parenting instinct doesn't always automatically switch on . . . but then it'd normally occur with the first kid and you'd still leave it with family while you pulled yourself together.

[buggrit_1979]

Actually, there's no reason to say PPD would occur with the first kid. There is no logic behind post-partum depression.

[bcrowessteffi]

IIRC, Claudia's inability to spell the word "who" didn't come along until later. She was referred to as a bad student, but not to the extent that she was when she got held back.

I was sorry when they stopped showing the non-BFF friendships. I liked the interactions that you would see between Kristy and Stacey, or Mary Anne and Stacey. Instead, it was just the BFF pairings that they refused to deviate from until the FF series.

[kissoffools]

Yeah, I distinctly remember Claudia's spelling and intelligence going way downhill as the books progressed. But did the early ones really not include any spelling mistakes? Either way, her hand writing was far neater and cleaner than it was in the original printings.

[promisemewings]

The earlier books didn't have as many spelling errors, and certainly not as extremely BAD as they got.