History Literature / TheBabySittersClub

* EverytownAmerica: Stoneybrook, CT.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first cover of ''Kristy's Great Idea'' has her wearing a blue jumper over a striped pink blouse with a headband and kneesocks, and she's described as -- like Mary Anne -- wearing a blouse, skirt, and saddle shoes when they first meet Stacey. Claudia describes Kristy as, like Mary Anne, wearing "little girl clothes" that consist of kilts and plain blouses compared to her and Stacey. The 1995 reprint -- now that Kristy has been firmly established as a {{Tomboy}} who [[HatesWearingDresses doesn't like skirts and dresses much]] -- changes this to her wearing jeans and sneakers, with the cover showing Kristy in her now iconic turtleneck and sweatshirt, jeans, and visor.

** In ''Poor Mallory!'', after Mallory's dad loses his job, Mallory gets bullied at school because of it. (Possibly her siblings do as well, although there's no mention of it; Becca indicates that Vanessa at least is receiving more sympathy than taunts from her classmates.) This one comes across as somewhat odd, because the reader is left wondering why Mallory's classmates know -- or ''care'' -- about her father's employment status.

** Dawn's parents seem to be a straight example. While we don't see them interact much, when they do, they seem to be on good terms; they never talk badly about each other (with Jack even defending Sharon when an angry Dawn blames her for the divorce in ''The Baby-Sitters Remember,'' while Sharon tells Jeff that ''living'' with his father full time is going to be different than ''visiting'' a DisneylandDad, indicating she respects him and his parenting), and they're both willing to work together (without fighting or being petty) and make sacrifices when it comes to doing what's best for their kids. Consider their custody arrangements over the course of the series -- In ''The Baby-Sitters Remember'' it is stated that Sharon got primary custody and promptly moved the kids to the opposite side of the country. However, she later willingly ceded custody to Jack once Jeff and, eventually, Dawn became too homesick after such an abrupt disruption to their lives. Even on the rare occasions that they DO fight, it's virtually always due to them being in a high-stress situation that would test just about anybody (such as when Dawn ''stole her father's credit card'' and flew back to Connecticut ''without telling a soul'', leaving Jack frantic). Sharon also seems to take the news of Jack starting to date Carol pretty well (likely due in part to the fact that she was just days away from marrying Richard at that point). The longest scene of them together is the first chapter of ''[=BSC=] in the [=USA=]'', which is a lot of awkward silence until Dawn (playfully) throws a bagel at Jeff, but it ends with everyone laughing.

** Dawn's parents seem to be a straight example. While we don't see them interact much, when they do, they seem to be on good terms; they never talk badly about each other (with Jack even defending Sharon when an angry Dawn blames her for the divorce in ''The Baby-Sitters Remember,'' while Sharon tells Jeff that ''living'' with his father full time is going to be different than ''visiting'' a DisneylandDad, indicating she respects him and his parenting), and they're both willing to work together (without fighting or being petty) and make sacrifices when it comes to doing what's best for their kids. Consider their custody arrangements over the course of the series -- In ''The Baby-Sitters Remember'' it is stated that Sharon got primary custody, and promptly moved the kids to the opposite side of the country, but ceded custody to Jack once Jeff and, eventually, Dawn became too homesick after such an abrupt disruption to their lives. Even on the rare occasions that they DO fight, it's virtually always due to them being in a high-stress situation that would test just about anybody (such as when Dawn ''stole her father's credit card'' and flew back to Connecticut ''without telling a soul'', leaving Jack frantic). Sharon also seems to take the news of Jack starting to date Carol pretty well (likely due in part to the fact that she was just days away from marrying Richard at that point). The longest scene of them together is the first chapter of ''[=BSC=] in the [=USA=]'', which is a lot of awkward silence until Dawn (playfully) throws a bagel at Jeff, but it ends with everyone laughing.

** Dawn's parents seem to be a straight example. While we don't see them interact much, when they do, they seem to be on good terms; they never talk badly about each other (with Jack even defending Sharon when an angry Dawn blames her for the divorce in ''The Baby-Sitters Remeber,'' while Sharon tells Jeff that ''living'' with his father full time is going to be different than ''visiting'' a DisneylandDad, indicating she respects him and his parenting), and they're both willing to work together (without fighting or being petty) and make sacrifices when it comes to doing what's best for their kids. Consider their custody arrangements over the course of the series -- In "The Baby-Sitters Remember" it is stated that Sharon got primary custody, and promptly moved the kids to the opposite side of the country, but ceded custody to Jack once Jeff and, eventually, Dawn became too homesick after such an abrupt disruption to their lives. Even on the rare occasions that they DO fight, it's virtually always due to them being in a high-stress situation that would test just about anybody (such as when Dawn ''stole her father's credit card'' and flew back to Connecticut ''without telling a soul'', leaving Jack frantic). Sharon also seems to take the news of Jack starting to date Carol pretty well (likely due in part to the fact that she was just days away from marrying Richard at that point). The longest scene of them together is the first chapter of ''[=BSC=] in the [=USA=]'', which is a lot of awkward silence until Dawn (playfully) throws a bagel at Jeff, but it ends with everyone laughing.

** Dawn's parents seem to be a straight example. While we don't see them interact much, when they do, they seem to be on good terms; they never talk badly about each other (with Jack even defending Sharon when an angry Dawn blames her for the divorce in ''The Baby-Sitters Remeber,'' while Sharon tells Jeff that ''living'' with his father full time is going to be different than ''visiting'' a DisneylandDad, indicating she respects him and his parenting), and they're both willing to work together (without fighting or being petty) and make sacrifices when it comes to doing what's best for their kids. Consider their custody arrangements over the course of the series -- In ''The Baby-Sitters Remember" it is stated that Sharon got primary custody, and promptly moved the kids to the opposite side of the country, but ceded custody to Jack once Jeff and, eventually, Dawn became too homesick after such an abrupt disruption to their lives. Even on the rare occasions that they DO fight, it's virtually always due to them being in a high-stress situation that would test just about anybody (such as when Dawn ''stole her father's credit card'' and flew back to Connecticut ''without telling a soul'', leaving Jack frantic). Sharon also seems to take the news of Jack starting to date Carol pretty well (likely due in part to the fact that she was just days away from marrying Richard at that point). The longest scene of them together is the first chapter of ''[=BSC=] in the [=USA=]'', which is a lot of awkward silence until Dawn (playfully) throws a bagel at Jeff, but it ends with everyone laughing.

** Dawn's parents seem to be a straight example. While we don't see them interact much, when they do, they seem to be on good terms; they never talk badly about each other (with Jack even defending Sharon when an angry Dawn blames her for the divorce in ''The Baby-Sitters Remember Super Special,'' while Sharon tells Jeff that ''living'' with his father full time is going to be different than ''visiting'' a DisneylandDad, indicating she respects him and his parenting), and they're both willing to work together (without fighting or being petty) and make sacrifices when it comes to doing what's best for their kids. Consider their custody arrangements over the course of the series -- Sharon seems to have gotten primary, if not full, custody, and promptly moved the kids to the opposite side of the country, but ended up ceding custody to Jack once Jeff and, eventually, Dawn became too homesick after such an abrupt disruption to their lives. Even on the rare occasions that they DO fight, it's virtually always due to them being in a high-stress situation that would test just about anybody (such as when Dawn ''stole her father's credit card'' and flew back to Connecticut ''without telling a soul'', leaving Jack frantic). The longest scene of them together is the first chapter of ''[=BSC=] in the [=USA=]'', which is a lot of awkward silence until Dawn (playfully) throws a bagel at Jeff, but it ends with everyone laughing.

** A feature in many ''Little Sister'' books, where Karen learns not to be a brat only to promptly forget it by the time the next book comes around. She also repeatedly decides she wants something from someone but doesn't ''tell'' them she wants it--even though every time she's honest about what she wants, things turn out better for her (e.g. not explaining to anyone that all she wants for her birthday is for her families to be together, instead trying to make trouble to force her parents to talk). It may be partially {{Justified|Trope}} by her age, though.

** It isn't given much of an in-depth description in but Stacey's swimsuit in the second book might count. It's mentioned that "[[BarelyThereSwimwear it was skimpy (and we're talking ''very'' skimpy) and yellow, with tiny bows at the side of the bottom part]]". Claudia even mentions that "the top part was filled out pretty nicely".

** Invoked in the ''Little Sister'' book ''Karen's Twin''. One of Karen's classmates wants to be "twins" with her and starts pushing her to dress identically (which even Terri and Tammy don't do) and pouting about the fact that they don't look enough alike. Throughout all of this, not one person brings up the fact that non-identical (fraternal) twins exist.

* ItBeganWithATwistOfFate: Much of the drama of ''Baby Sitters' Island Adventure'' would have been avoided if the group had secured Claudia's boat after arriving on the island. Had they had a boat, they could have sent a couple of people back to the mainland once the storm let up to tell everyone what happened and send a boat directly to the right place to pick up the others. Instead, they're stranded on the island with no way to communicate, so a full-blown grid search has to be mounted to find them.

** In ''Starring The Baby-Sitters Club'', the play is supposedly specifically a collaborative SchoolPlay for the three main Stoneybrook public schools, not an open community production. However both Karen Brewer and Matt Braddock take part and have roles, despite the fact that they don't attend the schools in question (Karen is in private school, and Matt goes to a special school for the Deaf). Potentially it could be some kind of sibling exception, since both of them have a sibling/step-sibling who go to Stoneybrook Elementary, but you'd expect it to at least be mentioned.

** In ''Poor Mallory!", Amanda and Max Delaney admit that while having a backyard swimming pool is cool in some ways, it does come with one big downside in that they never know whether the kids that come over actually want to hang out with them or if they're only coming over for the pool. Mallory suggests that they test it by telling their friends that their parents said the pool is off-limits indefinitely and then inviting them over to do other things and seeing who takes them up on it. To their pleasant surprise, it turns out a lot more of them accept than they expected; however, one girl does tell Amanda flat-out that she doesn't want to come over if they can't use the pool, so Amanda knows that girl isn't a real friend and won't invite her over anymore.

** The BSC throw a "Christmas in Summer" party for sitting charge James Hobart, who is Australian, to cheer him up when he has a broken leg. As a note, they thought part of the fun was the "silliness" of Christmas being in summer, not realizing that James was used to real Christmases in summer due to inverted seasons on the other side of the world - he'd never experienced Christmas in winter. This happened again at summer camp in one of the Super Specials.

** The BSC throw a "Christmas in Summer" party for sitting charge James Hobart, who is Australian, to cheer him up when he has a broken leg. As a note, they thought part of the fun was the "silliness" of Christmas being in summer, not realizing that James was used to real Christmases in summer due to inverted seasons on the other side of the world - he'd never experienced Christmas in winter.
** This happened again at summer camp in one of the Super Specials.

* ChristmasInJuly: The BSC throw a "Christmas in Summer" party for sitting charge James Hobart, who is Australian, to cheer him up when he has a broken leg. As a note, they thought part of the fun was the "silliness" of Christmas being in summer, not realizing that James was used to real Christmases in summer due to inverted seasons on the other side of the world - he'd never experienced Christmas in winter.

* ChristmasInJuly: The BSC throw a "Christmas in Summer" party for sitting charge James Hobart, who is Australian, to cheer him up when he has a broken leg. This happened again at summer camp in one of the Super Specials.

** In ''Poor Mallory!", Amanda and Max Delaney admit that while having a backyard swimming pool is cool in some ways, it does come with one big downside in that they never know which of the kids that come over are actually their friends and which ones are only coming over to swim. Mallory suggests that they test it by telling their friends that their parents said the pool is off-limits indefinitely and then inviting them over to do other things and seeing who takes them up on it. To their pleasant surprise, it turns out a lot more of them accept than they expected; however, one girl does tell Amanda flat-out that she doesn't want to come over if they can't use the pool, so Amanda knows that girl isn't a real friend and won't invite her over anymore.

** In ''Poor Mallory!", Amanda and Max Delaney admit that while being rich definitely has far more positives than negatives, it does come with one big downside in that they never know which of their friends are true friends and which ones just hang around in order to get access to their cool stuff, particularly their pool. Mallory suggests that they test it by telling their friends that their parents said the pool is off-limits indefinitely and then inviting them over to do other things and seeing who takes them up on it. To their pleasant surprise, it turns out a lot more of them accept than they expected; however, one girl does tell Amanda flat-out that she doesn't want to come over if they can't use the pool, so Amanda knows that girl isn't a real friend and won't invite her over anymore.