Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for February 09, 2023

“Uh-oh” has been the right response for about sixty years now.

A new name for them to go with rug rats, ankle biters and dirt magnets.

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHGGGGGGG. , AAAAAAAAAHHHHHGGGGGGG , EARWORM , EARWORM , And one of the Worst Earworms ever , AAAAAAAAAHHHHHGGGGGGG!!!!!

^ The PAIN, The Pain ^

They always say, “They’ll outgrow it,” but based on the last few years, I’m beginning to have my doubts.

Saw one wandering in a bank, went into an empty office and cleared a desk. No one seemed to be its parent. The parent eventually was done, and left with the vandal without a word.

Wait till they hit puberty.

One of the very early things my daughter was able to say when first learning to talk was a song from a live Barney show…sadly, that just encouraged the purchase of more Barney merch…

still, it was fun recognizing early on that Selena Gomez had some talent!

Maybe that’s why we’re having fewer of them now.

Wow, that reference is dated. Barney’s show ended in 2010.

Children are to be trained, not indulged

Someone has to be the boss. I have a friend who had 3 boys and I’ve spanked each of them as needed. They are 38, 40 and 42. They all respect and like me and none of them have suffered from the spanking. Appropriate spanking not beatings.

Children are the future? As Leonard Hofstadter said, we are attached to another object by an inclined plane wrapped helically around an axis.

“Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.” —Mark Twain