Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for May 21, 2015
May 20, 2015
May 22, 2015
Transcript:
Gracie: Checkmate. Baldo: You win. Gracie: Did you let me win? Baldo: No. Gracie: Do you ever let me win? Baldo: Never. Gracie: Why not? Baldo: Gracie, I don't waste time doing things I don't need to do.
I don’t let my kids win, but I do change the rules to level the playing field. As with a “handicap” in golf, I can make giving an advantage to a weaker player part of the stated rules. For instance, I play a sight-word game with my youngest daughter. Since I know every word on the cards and she does not, the rule is that I have to pronounce everything phonetically. Voile, we now have an even playing field, and I have a challenge to match hers.
When one of my nephews was about six he had a bad reaction to innoculations he had to have for school and spent several days recovering in bed. During that time one of the neighbor boys taught him how to play checkers and came over every day to play him, one day he came out of my nephews bedroom going, “Yes, yes, yes, I finally won.” It turns out that once my nephew learned how to play he kept beating the neighbor boy in spite of the fact that the neighbor was about eight or nine years older than him.
cdward over 9 years ago
Well said.
gammaguy over 9 years ago
Pragmatism at work.
Comic Minister Premium Member over 9 years ago
Agreed Baldo.
abbybookcase over 9 years ago
gracie should know the power of her brain by now
JoePhan over 9 years ago
My parents never went easy on me to let me win. If and when I won a game, I knew I’d earned the victory.
Scott Coons over 9 years ago
Simply great
jbarnes over 9 years ago
I don’t let my kids win, but I do change the rules to level the playing field. As with a “handicap” in golf, I can make giving an advantage to a weaker player part of the stated rules. For instance, I play a sight-word game with my youngest daughter. Since I know every word on the cards and she does not, the rule is that I have to pronounce everything phonetically. Voile, we now have an even playing field, and I have a challenge to match hers.
patlaborvi over 9 years ago
When one of my nephews was about six he had a bad reaction to innoculations he had to have for school and spent several days recovering in bed. During that time one of the neighbor boys taught him how to play checkers and came over every day to play him, one day he came out of my nephews bedroom going, “Yes, yes, yes, I finally won.” It turns out that once my nephew learned how to play he kept beating the neighbor boy in spite of the fact that the neighbor was about eight or nine years older than him.