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** Even worse in the French-Canadian edition. In the English edition the name the parents choose for their second child is Hope; possibly because the equivalent isn't a common name in French, the name they plan to use is Desiree.
* Rosie Wilder in ''Claudia and the Genius of Elm Street,'' a child prodigy whose parents force her to take tons of extracurriculars and constantly push her to be perfect at everything she does, to the point that even things she enjoys doing are no longer fun. She doesn't have any friends at school because everyone either hates her or is jealous of her. When she (understandably) has a tantrum about just wanting to do things like a normal kid, her mother's only response is to tell her to behave and stop yelling because her vocal cords need to stay in shape.
* Rosie Wilder in ''Claudia and the Genius of Elm Street,'' a child prodigy whose parents force her to take tons of extracurriculars and constantly push her to be perfect at everything she does, to the point that even things she enjoys doing are no longer fun. She doesn't have any friends at school because everyone either hates her or is jealous of her. When she (understandably) has a tantrum about just wanting to do things like a normal kid, her mother's only response is to tell her to behave and stop yelling because her vocal cords need to stay in shape.
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** Even worse in the French-Canadian edition. In the English edition the name the parents choose for their second child is Hope; possibly because the equivalent isn't a common name in French, the name they plan to use is Desiree.
Desiree (French for "much desired").
* Rosie Wilder in ''Claudia and the Genius of Elm Street,'' a child prodigy whose parents force her to take tons of extracurriculars and constantly push her to be perfect at everything she does, to the point that even things she enjoys doing are no longer fun. She doesn't have any friends at school because everyone either hates her or is jealous of her. (It doesn't help that her personality is prickly to the point that even fellow genius Janine is only able to put up with her for so long.) When she (understandably) has a tantrum about just wanting to do things like a normal kid, her mother's only response is to tell her to behave and stop yelling because her vocal cords need to stay in shape. She also represents her grade in her school's crossword-solving contest and wins in front of the entire school. A few kids in her grade cheer her on but is booed by most of the kids, causing poor Rosie to break down in tears and ask Claudia and Mary Anne why everyone hates her so much.
* Norman Hill in ''Dawn's Big Date''. He's bullied by nearly everyone because he's overweight and eats his feelings in response. The other kids refer to him as "Enormous Hill" and even his own family dumps on him. His older sister spies on him and tattles whenever she catches him eating anything he isn't supposed to, and draws nasty pictures that she hangs on the refrigerator for him to see. His parents are obsessed with him losing weight but do nothing to help him except harp on him and threaten to send him to fat camp. They keep all kinds of junk food in the house, go to the gym themselves while leaving Norman at home, and worst of all, their response to him bringing home a great report card is that someone smart should be able to lose weight. It is so bad that Norman confides to the babysitters that he believes they don't love him. The babysitters encourage him to stand up to his sister and tell his parents that their nagging just makes him want to eat more. His sister begins being kinder and his parents remove the junk food and stop talking about his weight.
* Rosie Wilder in ''Claudia and the Genius of Elm Street,'' a child prodigy whose parents force her to take tons of extracurriculars and constantly push her to be perfect at everything she does, to the point that even things she enjoys doing are no longer fun. She doesn't have any friends at school because everyone either hates her or is jealous of her. (It doesn't help that her personality is prickly to the point that even fellow genius Janine is only able to put up with her for so long.) When she (understandably) has a tantrum about just wanting to do things like a normal kid, her mother's only response is to tell her to behave and stop yelling because her vocal cords need to stay in shape. She also represents her grade in her school's crossword-solving contest and wins in front of the entire school. A few kids in her grade cheer her on but is booed by most of the kids, causing poor Rosie to break down in tears and ask Claudia and Mary Anne why everyone hates her so much.
* Norman Hill in ''Dawn's Big Date''. He's bullied by nearly everyone because he's overweight and eats his feelings in response. The other kids refer to him as "Enormous Hill" and even his own family dumps on him. His older sister spies on him and tattles whenever she catches him eating anything he isn't supposed to, and draws nasty pictures that she hangs on the refrigerator for him to see. His parents are obsessed with him losing weight but do nothing to help him except harp on him and threaten to send him to fat camp. They keep all kinds of junk food in the house, go to the gym themselves while leaving Norman at home, and worst of all, their response to him bringing home a great report card is that someone smart should be able to lose weight. It is so bad that Norman confides to the babysitters that he believes they don't love him. The babysitters encourage him to stand up to his sister and tell his parents that their nagging just makes him want to eat more. His sister begins being kinder and his parents remove the junk food and stop talking about his weight.
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* Sharon, on that note, probably has a case of it: her parents split her and her very loving and kind boyfriend up because they didn't like that his family was working-class. She was made to move away to California, where she married a man she liked, but then their marriage falls apart and they get divorced (it's also implied there was a reason she didn't like him staying out of the house late) and she moves back to Connecticut where she has to depend on her parents for property and start over with a job. Also both her children end up feeling homesick for California and move back with their father (with Dawn switching back and forth several times). What also hurts is that when she tells Dawn and Jeff about the divorce, both of them initially blame ''her'' for it.
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* Sharon, on that note, probably has a case of it: her parents split her and her very loving and kind boyfriend up because they didn't like that his family was working-class. She was made to move away to California, where she married a man she liked, but then their marriage falls apart and they get divorced (it's also implied there was a reason she didn't like him staying out of the house late) and she moves back to Connecticut where she has to depend on her parents for property and start over with a job. Also both her children end up feeling homesick for California and move back with their father (with Dawn switching back and forth several times). What also hurts is that when she tells Dawn and Jeff about the divorce, both of them initially blame ''her'' for it. It's also mentioned later on that she had a good friend that died when they were teenagers.
