For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 19, 2012

Already learning how to be ’Daddy’s little girl’. Manipulative lil’ tyke.

You can’t have all of the attention all the time!

@SUSAN NEWMAN: Yes, thank you. I had a very pleasant Rosh HaShanah, but I don’t look forward to Yom Kippur: Not only because of the fasting, but because this year I will have to travel on Yom Kippur, to get to my chavura in Manhattan. Please look for me and my comments on “Benitin y Enease” en Espanol (Mutt & Jeff): We all comment in English about anything, not just the comics.

@SUSAN NEWMAN: My surname isn’t “Unger” (I’m a Galitzianer and Romanian, not a Hungarian :-) . I use the moniker “Uygur” as I’m very interested in the Uyghur ethnic group in Western China, and have been to their weddings, etc. there.

Aww, just a typical little one. She’ll grow out of it at some point and start thinking about others also. Poor Farley deserves a lot of good attention at this point, and it’s nice to see him being appreciated.

in my house I loved being ignored by relatives, that meant that I didn’t get my face pinched a million times or have to hear about how cute I was and how much I had grown……..etc. I used to stay in the kitchen by my grandmother, it was safe there.

poor baby, but that is the thinking of a 3 year old……and some even older than that.

just go in there and play with Farley too! :-)

@Cofyjunky I’ve seen this so many times in similar circumstances. No need to get into the psychoanalysis.

Aw missing attention.

“It would have been more believeable if she’s said, “Daddy, I don’t feel good.” Elizabeth isn’t old enough to know what “well” means.”She’s a member of a well-educated family. I once showed a tot of my acquaintance a magazine picture of a bed piled with pillows, shams, ruffles, etc. I said, “Elizabeth, wouldn’t you like to crawl up into this bed and take a nap?” She glanced at it and said, “That’s an old lady’s bed!” She had just turned two that month.

I hear ya Susan.My “mother” abandoned me when I was ten, for her husband of two years.After that, I had rare contact with my cousin and uncle (her niece, and b-i-l).Her other 5 siblings who were still alive, still pretend I don’t exist unless I make contact.I haven’t seen ANY of my biological family in 8 years, and speak only to my "step-dads’ aunt, who has done more for me since 1995 than my mother has done in 32 years. BUT I have a decent network of friends and they give me the emotional, and psychological support I need.

I would have, because my parents always said “don’t you feel well?” to us.

Either Elizabeth isn’t feeling well, or is she like Chloe and the other girls in “Madeline”. (Boo-hoo! We wish we had our appendix out too!"

Susan, you don’t need to know Spanish to join the Vagabond Village over at “Benetin y Eneas”. We rarely go beyond “good morning” in Spanish, but we have some pretty interesting discussions in English. Please know that any and everyone is welcome to visit the Village.

I thought that,too.

Prob. not. I called her “Mama,” and had trouble pronouncing “L’s.” My speech wasn’t advanced,I believe, but I learned the alphabet at an early age by showing Mom my blocks and asking about them. Anyhow, when my grandson was eight months old, my daughter pointed to a picture of a saxophone and asked what it was. He said, “sassa -pho-wo-wo.” When the child I mentioned above was thirteen months old, she said, “I scared.” Toddlers mature at different rates and in different areas.