Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for September 12, 2011

Ah, to have friends like Beni…

Picture her rollin’.

Alice pimps her ride, sort of.

If anyone should be embarrassed, Madeline….

Madeline, if Alice is going to be in the stroller, shouldn’t she also be wearing diapers?Just sayin’

This is not a good depiction of Alice’s attribute. In the future she would turn out as being a lazy adult.

Ha! Lil kids and folks over 60 care nothing about embarrasment…its all about comfort baby!

It really bugs me when I see perfectly healthy looking five or six year old kids being pushed around by their parents in strollers. Sometimes they are still sucking on pacifiers as well! When a child learns how to walk, they should walk from then on.

On the other hand, you also will see little girls of that age being dressed like hookers. We are extending infancy and accelerating adolescence at the same time, leaving our sons and daughters no time just to be regular kids.

Don’t be such a baby, Alice.

AArgh! Today’s strip makes me annoyed with both Alice and her mom!

It’s not about the walk and distance. It’s about the destination and not wanting to go. I bet if the same walk ended in an ice cream shop…Alice would be running and telling her mom to hurry up.

This is a child who can run and dance all day without getting tired. The tiredness isn’t in her legs, it’s in her head! (I have a neighbour who drives to her mailbox instead of making the long, arduous 15 second walk by foot. I bet she stayed in her stroller till she was ten!)

You should be Alice, YOU SHOULD BE

Or is it infantile regression?

Alice’s mom needs to grow a pair.

Darling fans and fellow readers—It’s a freaking comic strip! Come on now, everybody, deep, healing breaths.

I can’t believe the stroller is that small or short. It looks more like a doll stroller than one for a child. I miss my kids being babies and the carriages of old. I really hate those strollers they have now.

No, I truly believe there are people that lazy. I, too, have seen that happen in passing.

Ridiculous. Alice, the stroller will eventually break.

How thoroughly sociopathic.A child in a stroller is not even visible to the pusher!In much of the world, small children are c_a_r_r_i_e_d - by parents, or by bigger children - with a lot more of the eye contact and body contact we need as primates.No wonder the US keeps drone-bombing the rest of the planet.

Thanks Dr Toon-indeed Richard will control Alice and her mom will continue to flounder. Many of us who have raised children and are seeing various generations have a right to be dismayed, however. I’m glad most of my grandchildren are doing well – espescially some. I am even dismayed by my own daughter’s parenting (I blame the influence of her friends and spoiling by her father and older brothers as she was the “baby”).

Hee hee I love it!

Alice will grow up to have created a life for herself where she runs a corporation and has a chauffeur.