Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for December 18, 2024

Attention parents..   We’re now pre-bored-ing for the holidays

My son brought his son (8 mo. old) for us grandparents on a visit last week. He missed the first plane and had to fly into another airport while his bags made the first flight. It took 12 hours altogether and the baby was nice and cooperative the whole day then slept through the night. It was a Christmas miracle!

Isn’t it Christmas Break?

Yes we must be mindful of the over-worked teachers.

Wait until the day after Christmas the dreaded post-Christmas letdown!

No better time than the present to break out the Vino

Wow.

Saying the words “Nothing to do” in my house meant that you were about to vacuum the entire house.

Truth.

Pre-bored; is that like waiting to get on Spirit-less Airlines?

Nothing to do when dinner’s being prepared? Nonsense! Set the table, chop the salad, etc. If you don’t help, then you don’t eat!

My wife and I routinely quoted the line from Eloise: “Being bored is not allowed” – and any child complaining that there was nothing to do would get a chore. We never got complaints of boredom.

Surely, there’s SOMEbody around that Zoe can busy herself tattling on.

Pre-bored. Never thought of that. Its Winter. can you be pre-depressed?

I told my mother that I was bored once and only once.

Give them each three raw yams, some kite string, a fish hook, a spool of white thread, a can of chrome colored Rustoleum, a jar of jalapeño jelly, and a cowboy hat. Works every time.

Translation: Kids want to do something that’ll cost you and arm and a leg!

Christmas. It is a Christmas Break.

Kids are revved up, excited before Christmas. They aren’t bored. But readers are.

That was one thing I learned to never, ever, in anyway shape or form, say to my mother. The list of things to do she came up with was longer than my dads ‘Honey-do’ list!

I would start the Pre-Drinking and get Pre-Buzzed then.

“And mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again . . . "

Which is why when the kids were little one of us would take vacation for the Holiday Vacation and the other one would take vacation for spring break. We would switch each year so no one got stuck with the same holiday two years in a row.

what a coincidence!! growing up in RI in 60’s, tv commercials for Prince spaghetti said Wednesday was Prince spaghetti day and for years every Wednesday my mom would serve Prince spaghetti with Hunt’s tomato sauce on it!!

I gave this a LIKE in sympathy for all the parents who will have to deal with this. As kids, we didn’t bug our parents too much this way. For one thing, we quickly learned that if we had “nothing to do” there was always work to be done, and for another, we quickly developed imaginations that provided all sorts of fun.

Time for a vacuum cleaner relay race!

❝pre-bored❞

well❟ now I’m post-bored

“Pre-bored?” Does Southwest Airlines still do that?

Let’s see. There’s Zoe’s bedroom, Hammie’s bedroom, Wren’s bedroom, the bathroom, the living room, the laundry room, and the garage. That’s three rooms apiece to clean, and you can decide whether you want to share cleaning Wren’s room or the garage.

My brother and I could always make up some little task or adventure for ourselves in the immediate run-up to Christmas. We had so many options that were not normally available, and that we knew wouldn’t be for long. So we enjoyed them while we could.

I think it’s why I attach significance to so many personal traditions now.

I never complained about being bored to my mom, I had chores before school and other chores when there is no school.

Teach them how to vacuum and dust.

Said with dripping sarcasm.

At any given time my parents had a to-do list as long as your arm.

Complaints of “I’m bored!” were quickly remedied.

I was never bored… there was always tv (altho only a handful of channels), read a book, play with toys, play outside, etc. etc……

Our schools Christmas Break starts Monday in KS.

Mothers need a spa day after Christmas break. They deserve to be pampered for not committing infanticide.

NOT…….

Kwanzaa is a sad attempt at creating a cultural tradition that never existed. Kwanzaa is a Swahili word for the harvest celebration in Southeast Africa, Tanzania and Mozambique where Swahili is spoken. African American’s ancestors were from Northwest Africa. Their culture and languages were as far apart as Arab and Chinese. Sadly, Afro-Americans have no remembrance of their African heritage. It makes more sense for them, being a part of American culture, to celebrate Christmas, as the vast majority have for a couple of hundred years. Also, Kwanzaa was created in anger and protest after the Watts riots. The protests were valid but hardly a fitting beginning for a cultural tradition.

The worst most boring day of school vacation was still better that the best day at school.

You are SOOOOO not.

Put them to work. Cures boredom best.