If kids would learn to be more polite and not interrupt/keep it up if Mom/Dad doesn’t answer the first time, parents would be quick to answer when the did. Also, kids should be taught to say “excuse me” if they need to interrupt. Yes, Ellie did over react, and I doubt that Elizabeth wants any thing earth shattering, but be we’ve all heard about the “little boy who cried wolf.”
I was taught that a child should stand by(silently) until acknowledged by an adult then communicate what needs to be said and then return to the activity they were pursuing . That was followed by all the children and adults in my family when I was going up. Saved a lot of arguments and disciplining.
You know it’s interesting how many synonyms for “fulfillment” are also sexual innuendo. No wonder Elly couldn’t find the right word to use before Lizzie interrupted her.-————————They’re talking about parenting, how. Not sex.Try and stay on focused.
Hard to believe she’d tell her kid to “get lost.” Aside from being rude, it’s just asking for Elizabeth to start bawling her head off — as well as to teach Elizabet to tell Elly to “get lost” at some time in the near future.
She just put into an amusing scenario what many of us have thought when young children are screaming over us — like the one who was screaming into the phone when I called her mother to introduce myself and try to make a therapy appointment for her this afternoon. I don’t know if she ever heard the date and time I was telling her, but hopefully she will show up.
This is vaguely hilarious, one of my parents actually used to get distressed that I would, when I was little, come into a room and stand silently staring at them when I wanted something.
As soon as they acknowledged me I would speak, but I never got the “walking into the room and asking a question straight away” thing until I was a LOT older.
gypsylobo over 9 years ago
If kids would learn to be more polite and not interrupt/keep it up if Mom/Dad doesn’t answer the first time, parents would be quick to answer when the did. Also, kids should be taught to say “excuse me” if they need to interrupt. Yes, Ellie did over react, and I doubt that Elizabeth wants any thing earth shattering, but be we’ve all heard about the “little boy who cried wolf.”
IndyMan over 9 years ago
I was taught that a child should stand by(silently) until acknowledged by an adult then communicate what needs to be said and then return to the activity they were pursuing . That was followed by all the children and adults in my family when I was going up. Saved a lot of arguments and disciplining.
AliCom over 9 years ago
Elly, you’re being a real m-U-ther right now.
JanLC over 9 years ago
I can’t say this is one of my favorite FBoFW strips. Lynn didn’t have many that were as mean-spirited as this one.
Can't Sleep over 9 years ago
You know it’s interesting how many synonyms for “fulfillment” are also sexual innuendo. No wonder Elly couldn’t find the right word to use before Lizzie interrupted her.-————————They’re talking about parenting, how. Not sex.Try and stay on focused.
MeGoNow Premium Member over 9 years ago
She poorly raised her children, so she can just suffer their ill behavior.
ewalnut over 9 years ago
Hard to believe she’d tell her kid to “get lost.” Aside from being rude, it’s just asking for Elizabeth to start bawling her head off — as well as to teach Elizabet to tell Elly to “get lost” at some time in the near future.
IQTech61 over 9 years ago
What’s really funny is if it had been John in the frame, he would still be going off an Ellie.
IQTech61 over 9 years ago
Not since artificial insemination came around.
USN1977 over 9 years ago
Elly is teaching manners. She is telling Elizabeth that if she cannot be polite she must leave.
lindz.coop Premium Member over 9 years ago
She just put into an amusing scenario what many of us have thought when young children are screaming over us — like the one who was screaming into the phone when I called her mother to introduce myself and try to make a therapy appointment for her this afternoon. I don’t know if she ever heard the date and time I was telling her, but hopefully she will show up.
sbischof over 9 years ago
This is vaguely hilarious, one of my parents actually used to get distressed that I would, when I was little, come into a room and stand silently staring at them when I wanted something.
As soon as they acknowledged me I would speak, but I never got the “walking into the room and asking a question straight away” thing until I was a LOT older.