Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for March 08, 2011

Is Holly working blue?

Someone needs to use roll up newspaper on that hot head.

She’ll talk at you rather than with you.

Kids aren’t taught any manners anymore.

You spend the first years praying for them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 20 years telling them to shut up and sit down:-P

She’s not ‘talking blue.’ She’s mumbling so Mom won’t know why she wants $20.

That is one way to look at Holly mumbline then yelling $20. Mom will be smart and get more specific for what on $20.

Everybodys afraid to discipline their Children for fear that some dummy will call the Cops and have them thrown in jail for child abuse.

If you think of discipline as teaching, it becomes a very different thing than if you only think of it as punishment.

1958: There was a time. $0.15 a week allowance.

I agree with you DOCTOR,, I had to discipline my 15 yr old last summer,, and next thing i knew childrens aid was calling me,, all because i threatened her a swat for not coming home and not contacting me for over 24 hrs, and giving me a scare! One of the neighbors heard me yelling it!

Maybe it’s just me, but that demand for $20 looks like it contains more swearing than a remake of Clerks directed by John Singleton.

Thirdguy, exactly! Derkins, don’t think so, it was just nonspecific teen speak, had it been swearing it probably would have looked more like: #$#(&%/*

Ja, the words that are visible & legible are the only ones making it into Val’s ears.