Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for March 15, 2013

They are all close by!

Give money. They’ll go.

Come on Val, don’t be a wuss. Send them up to their room or else…

Just tell them what you really want to do. They’ll leave quickly, in disgust. No kid wants the mental image of a parent being romantic.

Don’t ask, tell those kids to get out!

Wimp.

1) That’s when Mom lays down the law and TELLS the girls to go upstairs. 2) Rent a different movie for the girls and send them upstairs to watch it. 3) Just start kissing; the girls will leave. Ew, gross! ;) 4) Val and Phil should just go to the Drive-In! The girls are old enough to be home alone. Aren’t they?

Do you have a recorder?

I would’ve told them to go to bed early tonight (though it’s not a school night) and we’ll negotiate a bonus later, a privilege they don’t normally get. But no way would I allow them to interrupt my date, I’m still the parent!

Sorry they’re ruining it for you Val.

This is the main reason people buy a second TV.