Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for December 03, 2021

I love this family.

Best mother….ever!

Where did the seagull go in frame 4?

One of the most important things a parent can do – LISTEN, even if it’s in the middle of your favourite TV programme, because that’s often when they really need to ask for your help. If you don’t, they won’t ask again.

Good mommy! I wish I had had one like that.

9 PM, and the homework still wasn’t done. Neither was the laundry or dinner. But hey, you can’t have everything.

A budding naturalist!

To quote Bill Nye: “SCIENCE!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5no6qDopUU

I’ve a feeling that Wallace will became the Jean Cousteau of the future.

I like how Mom used the clothes hamper as a chair.

That magic moment when sudden understanding and engagement click together, producing knowledge!

Look at the enthusiasm on that little instructor!

Anybody notice mom is sitting in the laundry basket?

We’re all water from different riversThat’s why it’s so easy to meetWe’re all water in this vast, vast oceanSomeday we’ll evaporate togetherPlastic Ono Band

Mom is so cool. :)

I love the lamp post…

I copied this and shared it with all the middle school science teachers I work with, wonderful to see someone so excited about learning.

Good move, Mom!

Love this!! This is the way I felt many times as a kid. Understanding how the natural world works.

One of the many reasons we love Wallace (and his wonderful Mom).

The laundry can wait. Mom has her priorities set right.

This was my mother to a “T”.

She not only had a love of all things scientific, but she completely and thoroughly encouraged and listened to us as kids!! Geology, botany, biology, you name it – she knew it.

Those were days that influenced me in ways I can never fully understand.

Can’t love this more… <3

The unbridled enthusiasm of children is worth listening too.

Someone’s paying attention in class. Way to go both student AND teacher…..

I love the strips that show how great his parents are. My favorite one was when Dad found him turning his room into a bird sanctuary.

Sweet! But I see the seagull isn’t impressed…

Best Mom EVER!

When you can relate something in your own terms, you’ve learned it. Passion in teaching.

Absolutely glorious! As a teacher, it warms my heart to see this. It is always wonderful when a student has the “aha moment” and actually enjoys the learning aspect!

Aww.

I can’t think of a better way to instill a love of learning into a child, than by letting them teach you things you already know. Can’t think of a better way to parent, either. :-)

Who knew learning could be so much fun? Brought back memories of my mom. We were dirt poor but she bought us the Encyclopedia Britanica Jr., which I read just for fun. She also encouraged me to bring home my violin and practice nightly.

And we might be drinking some of the sweat from Alexander the Great.

Mom likes to see Wallace excited about learning. But he gets excited by life, so he must keep her busy.

This is just awesome. The only competition that Wallace and Sterling have for Best Parents Ever would likely be Petey and Alice Otterloop.

Panel 4 they are both so wrapped up in it, that we don’t even need words.

What a great mom

That is one smart mom.

Ah…the joy of learning!

The woman surfs, read comic books AND listens to her kids. She’s a keeper.

Awwww

When I was a kid, maybe eight or nine, I’d ride in the old Studebaker with my Mom to the A&P for Saturday afternoon grocery shopping. She always waited till all of my cartoon shows and The Lone Ranger had been absorbed delightfully by my little brother and me before washing my face and combing my hair before the adventure began. On the way to the A&P we’d come to one of two stop lights in our sleepy little fishing town. I would wish and hold my breath as we approached the intersection. If our light was red maybe I’d I could juuust see a sliver of yellow on the side of the light as it signaled cars coming from our left and right that the light was about to change for them to red. And we’d be free to motor to the land of exotic foodstuffs like Guava jelly for Granny, a ripe avocado for Great Aunt Diddy and a tin of Navy snuff for various grown ups. Oh! And every so often a Spanish Bar cake!! Back to the light. If the conditions were right for a timely change I’d fool my Mom into believing I had super powers and could make our red light turn green with my mind. She’d glance at me in wonder (every single time) and beg me to do my magic. I’d squint and say, “red light, green bright, please!” Sure enough it would change and Mom laughed and thanked me for keeping the car on its way to get filled with a week’s larder of vittles for nine experienced eaters and snuff dippers. After we got home she’d excitedly tell everyone of my magical powers and good manners (I’d said please). Wallace’s Mom is so like my Mom in a wetsuit.

I love his mother so much!