Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for December 18, 2024

Attention parents..   We’re now pre-bored-ing for the holidays

My son brought his son (8 mo. old) for us grandparents on a visit last week. He missed the first plane and had to fly into another airport while his bags made the first flight. It took 12 hours altogether and the baby was nice and cooperative the whole day then slept through the night. It was a Christmas miracle!

Isn’t it Christmas Break?

Yes we must be mindful of the over-worked teachers.

Wait until the day after Christmas the dreaded post-Christmas letdown!

No better time than the present to break out the Vino

Wow.

Saying the words “Nothing to do” in my house meant that you were about to vacuum the entire house.

Truth.

Pre-bored; is that like waiting to get on Spirit-less Airlines?

Nothing to do when dinner’s being prepared? Nonsense! Set the table, chop the salad, etc. If you don’t help, then you don’t eat!

My wife and I routinely quoted the line from Eloise: “Being bored is not allowed” – and any child complaining that there was nothing to do would get a chore. We never got complaints of boredom.

Surely, there’s SOMEbody around that Zoe can busy herself tattling on.

Pre-bored. Never thought of that. Its Winter. can you be pre-depressed?

I told my mother that I was bored once and only once.

Give them each three raw yams, some kite string, a fish hook, a spool of white thread, a can of chrome colored Rustoleum, a jar of jalapeño jelly, and a cowboy hat. Works every time.

Translation: Kids want to do something that’ll cost you and arm and a leg!

Christmas. It is a Christmas Break.

Kids are revved up, excited before Christmas. They aren’t bored. But readers are.

That was one thing I learned to never, ever, in anyway shape or form, say to my mother. The list of things to do she came up with was longer than my dads ‘Honey-do’ list!

I would start the Pre-Drinking and get Pre-Buzzed then.

“And mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again . . . "

Which is why when the kids were little one of us would take vacation for the Holiday Vacation and the other one would take vacation for spring break. We would switch each year so no one got stuck with the same holiday two years in a row.

what a coincidence!! growing up in RI in 60’s, tv commercials for Prince spaghetti said Wednesday was Prince spaghetti day and for years every Wednesday my mom would serve Prince spaghetti with Hunt’s tomato sauce on it!!

I gave this a LIKE in sympathy for all the parents who will have to deal with this. As kids, we didn’t bug our parents too much this way. For one thing, we quickly learned that if we had “nothing to do” there was always work to be done, and for another, we quickly developed imaginations that provided all sorts of fun.