For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 25, 2013

Reminds me of the recent movie, “The Other Son,” when a Israeli Jewish couple finds out that their 18-year-old son is really a Palestinian Arab-born baby that was was accidentally switched at birth and their much younger daughter asks, “Do we hafta give him back?”

Way to spoil what could have been a fun trip, Lizard Breath! He’d have never thought of that!

Poor Micheal has to go to North Van to be spoiled by his grandparents

@curmudgeon68: NO – Instead the 2 families become friends and practically adopt each other, but I’m sorry I’m giving away the plot.

I always wanted to take an adventure like that, as a kid!

Somehow…I see a twist

Well, now he’ll be awake all night!

far far away

Poor Elizabeth! I hope Michael is old enough to be over this sort of fear.

Michael is old enough to travel on his own, but he is not old enough to give him a key

Michael will be closely supervised while on the plane, and escorted to any connecting flight. Airlines still pay special attention to “unaccompanied minors”. His parents will be at one end and his grandparents at the other, so he won’t be alone as he would be as a latchkey kid.

Not cool man…not cool at all

Not cool man…not cool at all

At what a young age females learn the art of gossiping!

This is a real cliff-hanger….??

“Michael is old enough to travel on his own, but he is not old enough to give him a key so he can be in the house by himself until his parents get home from work. Somehow those two ideas don’t work that well together.”

Airline personnel commit to keeping an eye on minors travelling alone. Before airlines, conductors took on the same task.

Kids travelling ‘alone’ are not entirely unsupervised.

@howtheduck

“He won’t be alone, but there is still a certain degree of emotional maturity a kid has to have in order to do this in the first place.”

You seem to have a limited view of children. It’s true that all children don’t mature at the same rate, but maybe you are speaking for yourself. At age six I had my own bus fare and travelled all over the city on my own, unsupervised. My younger brother, at the same age, probably wouldn’t have been up to it.

If Michael’s parents think he’s old enough to travel alone, they’re probably right. It’s their call.