Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for March 27, 2019

Makes me wonder about parents who expect other people (especially teachers) to teach their child everything!

My parents bought this green metal machine type thing where worksheets would feed up as you completed them. No idea what it was called, but it did help with reading.

And of course, they and Granny read to me, I read to my younger sister and brother in time. Mom always said Kimberly and I were the easiest on road trips cause we’d have our noses buried in books for hours.. LOL! My poor brother has dyslexia and wasn’t diagnosed til 3rd grade, I think

She forgot to mention the fact that she’s too busy swiping away at her screen to pay attention to the kid. I see this all the time at the library. As a librarian, I think it should be my right to spank misbehaving adults.

He was clearly a good Dad. Mine did the same thing and I am a voracious reader decades later. Thanks, Dad.

Mom was that way with us. Brother still remembers that when he didn’t know what a word meant, she’d say look it up. We both learned to do that at an early age. I remember loving to just read the dictionary.

my parents always complained they couldn’t punish me by sending me to my room – I had my books to keep me company, and to this day I am still and avid reader

I am a high school teacher and the last several comic strips have been “spot on!” Mr. Thompson seems to have his finger on the pulse of modern day teaching…kudos!

My mom did the same thing. The OTHER thing she did was to leave books all over the house. No matter where we were, there were books at hand for us to read anytime.

The same here. Mom scattered reading material everywhere – books, comic books, cereal boxes, recipes. We were encouraged to read anything sporting words. And, in our house books were never censored. Mom felt, if we were old enough to understand what we were reading, we were old enough to know about it.