Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for May 26, 2015

It’s a family tradition.

After 20 years of that my sister-in-law told my brother he was a big boy and could pick out and mail his own cards for his own mommy. He has ever since, and he signs her name to the card also.

Sorry you’re cut out of the will, Sonnyboy. If you’d stopped by more often, I might have remembered your name…

Must be Jewish!

neverenoughgold: As the author of How to Be a Jewish Mother pointed out in the introduction, one doesn’t have to be Jewish, or even female.

The whole thing about ignoring/neglecting parents is the childish assumption that they will always be there whenever the child/adult is not busy. But being too busy to phone, send an online gift or a card is just plain old selfish – the message being that the child’s life is so busy with important things that there’s no time for a human relationship.

Why is it always up to the female?