Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for January 30, 2025

Could that be a plan?

Seven years on and you can still hear the echoes of it.

Give her some cough syrup.

or how about locking the little jerk in her room till she shuts up? mom is a wuss to let her get away with it.

Hopefully she will get tired of it soon!

That reminds me. We’re out of duct tape…

She’s watched a lot of “ MacGyver”.

I bet Wanda has a sock in that laundry basket….

Let Wren know that it is NOT acceptable behavior. Kids need to know where the boundaries are.

I hope thie topic line goes away PDQ

To answer the second panel… YES!! Isn’t stopping bad behavior by any means necessary your job? Do it already! Geez, Calvin was right. Some people weren’t meant to be moms!

Time for Wren to spend the weekend at Grandma and Grandpa’s house.

Guess Hammie quit and left.

I imagine duct tape is out of the question?

She’s only sceeching because Wanda allows it.

She’s been planning something, but her ethics are keeping her from executing them! LOL

Amy: Sheldon, you know, Penny’s got a point. Sometimes when you want something big from someone, you… you got to be careful not to scare them away, you know? You got to start small and… and build up slowly, even if it takes eight years. Eight. Long. Years.

Sheldon: That’s oddly specific. Have you ever done that?

Amy: Nope…

Or you could be the adult and tell her to knock it off

Wonder if one of the the ways to stop a kids temper tantrum will work for Wren’s shrieeking too?

Civil defense planes are scrambling…..

""Will no one rid me of this shrieking child?"

Darryl sure has been ‘working’ overtime quite a bit! Hmmm…imagine that!

I’ve got it!

DISCIPLINE!!!

I do not remember my two ever doing what Wren does.

I’d think after a while, your brain would just tune it out. If not, there’s always earplugs. Or ice cream. Oooh, do they still make those “all-day” suckers?

She Could have and Ear Infection..

Maybe a jar of peanut butter

Food usually works, something to break the cycle.

to be fair, we have a friend who’s little girl (grown up now) would cry and whine constantly. Eventually found out she felt horrible, because she was massively diabetic. Treated the issue, no more whining.

That wouldn’t work for me.

Maybe teach your kid acceptable human behavior.

Who’s in control here, Wren or Wanda? Making everyone else suffer, also teaches Wren she can get by with it. Would this behavior be allowed then in a public place such as a restaurant? I think not, so not good Wanda, teach her now not latter.

There’s a kindergarten right across the road from our house. One summer they had this kid who was constantly up on the high C. I felt really sorry for the parents (and the kindergarten teachers). We could clearly hear it into our house and to our back yard (not facing the kindergarten). I feel Wren’s family’s pain!

If you can’t modify your child’s behavior, you are not parenting.

Give her a hefty dose of paregoric.

Wanda, have you reminded Zoe of her “shrieking” period?? I think all kiddos go thru that pahse

No…you discipline her so that she stops it. Ever heard of time out until it stops?

I was on an airplane with a screaming kid and everyone tried to shush her…stewardesses, other passengers, etc. When we landed, the kid was still screaming and the mother looked at her and told her to stop it. She did. I looked at my husband and said, maybe she could have done that 3 hours ago.

Or shriek back at her and stand back and wait for the shocked expression when they realize how annoying it is. And that the adult would do it, too.