For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 12, 2013

I graduated from high school with two boys who had the same name as well as middle initial (just different middle names); had to put their full names on the yearbook.

She’ll come out when she gets hungry.

Every kid in my family tried this once, and I do mean ONCE, because by the time we could sit down again we’d figured out that hiding from mommy is not a good game to play.

my daughter used to crawl under the clothes racks in the department store and sit on the bottom so I could not see her. She did get her bottom warmed a few times for scaring me.

And as for having the same name, last year my grandson was a freshman but in the annual there was a sophomore with his same name and because they were not smart enough to figure out which one was a freshman, they were both listed as sophomore.

Hit you? Ibelieve n spanking, if neded, with your hand in the proper place. Hitting, to me, should never be tolerated. Although sometimes the GGKids really push me.

When my son was in grade 2, on first day, the teacher was putting name plates on desks and seen that my son and another student had the same last name, so she placed the desks side by side, we get there and find his desk and the teacher asked if my son had a cousin or relation coming in. We didn’t know anyone with that name and found out why,, the other child was an immigrant from Jamaica (dark skinned) and my son is canadian/german (blond, blue eyes). Teacher said “nope I guess not!”

i once did something like this, but i was bullied during that time. I made my family so worried.

great

its cute but she’s making her family worried

she is talking to a stuffed animal? Does the bunny answer?

She’s FOUR,people! She’s a KID! It’s her job to be clueless. Why do adults continue to expect logical adult behavior from pre-schoolers and kindergardners? How adult were you at age four?

luckychigger: There are no surnames in Iceland, just a patronym followed by son or dottír. So the phone book (for the whole country) is alphabetized by first names. These include spouse names in parentheses and each are numbered. So you find Eric Thorenson 3 (Helga Swenbogdottír 2) listings, and vice versa as each have their own listing..Charles Smith: And beaten children grow up to support constant war, denial of medical care for women, and if sufficiently stressed, killing their whole family.

Elizabeth Patterson was also a character actress whose best-know role was as Mrs. Trumbull on I LOVE LUCY.

I wonder if it’s just a coincidence or is Lynn Johnston an I Love Lucy fan and that’s how little Lizzie [in FBoFW] got her name? That would certainly be very interesting to know!

A pity, since it is REALLY NEEDED these days!!!!!!!!!!!

“My Mom used to hit me too. It only made me more determined to hide better the next time”

Can’t speak for either you or your Mom, because the issue is far from a simple one, but used in a timely fashion, for known rules violation, it really is very effective.

My mother had a fine sense of justice. We were never spanked unless we knew we had earned it, and yes, it was an effective deterrent for further rules violations.

Random spankings are pointless and counterproductive. You have my sympathies, but I hope you’ve been able to put it behind you. Take care!

“Spanking IS hitting, and where I choose to live now hitting your kids is against the law.”

So you make no distinction between the flat of the hand to the round of the rump and the fist to the face?

Lawmakers have shown themselves this stupid, but a parent who is willing to let the law turn his kids against him is a fool.

Government is not a fit parent for any dependent, and appears very enthusiastic in the matter of destroying our children – which is to say, our families.

Destroying parent’s right to raise civil children is the right way to do it.

There were five girls in my homeroom, through most of high school, with the same first name as mine. There were five different girls living on my street with the same name – one living directly across the street.

It was insane! lol!

Kids get lost in stores and everywhere else because they follow the wrong pair of legs. Legs are what they see because adult legs are at the child’s eye level. My father wore bib overalls, and at age 7, I followed the wrong bib overalls in Safeway where I asked the man I thought was my father what kind of melon was that he put into the cart. My dad, sisters and I were so embarrassed, but nobody hit me. I didn’t hit my boys for getting lost either, but one of them would panic when he didn’t see me because his back was toward me. I used a child leash, and when he would panic, I would give it a gentle tug and tell him to turn around. When anyone asked me why I had a leash on him, I told them the truth — he panicks when he doesn’t see me right away. It took only a few times wearing it because he learned to look beside him and behind him before yelling, “MOMMY!”

Supposed true story. Daughter goes to pick up visiting Mom at airport. She isn’t on flight. Daughter figures she might have missed connection. Calls connecting airport, has her paged, no response. Waits for next flight, Mom arrives, verifies she missed connection and had to wait for next flight. Daughter mentions having her paged, she says she heard but didn’t answer because, “I don’t know anyone in that city, so who would be calling me.”

Having worked as a sheriff’s deputy, kids who were Lizzie’s age approached me saying they were lost. I never saw any self-absorbed clueless kid like this

I’m sorry that you were ‘hit’ as a child. But you are wrong about the difference between hitting and spanking. Spanking happens in a controlled matter with 2-5 swats depending on the ‘crime’ the child did. Hitting happens for no reason, or maybe with reason, but is uncontrolled. I know this. I had parents that spanked me, but a step mom that hit me.

I grew up in a small town. There were 84 graduates in my class…that small. Anyway in my graduating class there were 5 students with the same last name….and they werent even related…and its not a common last name. Heck 2 of them bad the same first name