Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for November 13, 2016
November 12, 2016
November 14, 2016
Transcript:
GRAND AVENUE BY MIKE THOMPSON Grandma: Our team scored a touchdown! Gabby: What's this "our" business? Gabby: We don't play on the team. Gabby: We're not the coaches. Gabby: In fact, we're not a part of the team in any way. Gabby: So what do you say you hand me our remote and I'll find some cartoons to watch instead? Grandma: What's this "our" business?
Good lesson for the child. There is no “our.” I used to carry copies of a section of the Texas Family Code that’s informally known as the Parents’ Bill of Rights. It lists a bunch of stuff that drives kids wild. Like they own nothing. Everything they earn or buy or are given, including their clothes, belongs to their parents. When a bunch of Scouts would be griping about “my” room, “my” video game, or “my” stuff, I’d haul out copies and pass them around. Good way to clear a campsite of flies. The open mouths would catch a lot of them.