Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for February 19, 2023

Life of a nag

You didn’t read the instruction book that came with being a mom did you Wanda ?

Oh, there’s plenty of things to lecture about during meals.

must Wanda do everything the children and Darryl don’t wanna do?

Another rerun. What’s up with this week?

you want some oats?

maybe an apple?

sugar cube?

Saves cleanup later Wanda!

Before TED Talks there were Moms.

Mom gave up and let the guys live upstairs. She’d put clean clothes on the first stair step. She and my sister stayed downstairs.

This theme can equally apply to the husband/father.

Life of a WOMAN

Bleak Pointer: Wanda Forever (It’s a stretch, I know) ☺

If you didn’t nag your family so much, Wanda, they’d like you better.

Wanda, bless your heart. You’re educating, not lecturing :-)

Has Wanda been hanging out with my wife? ;)

C’mon you chose it, you love it, these are the happiest days in your life cause soon dey be gone…

Spoken like men or should I say kids!!!

…which then go in one ear and out the other.

You could try not lecturing as much. Just sayin.

Not MIGHT step on them. Somebody WILL step on them.

My mom had a day care center, usually full—26 kids aged 2 and up. There were four rooms, each one with varying amouts of play stuff. Before lunch she’d call out, “Let’s pick up.” Within four or five minutes all the kids (and not my mom) had put everything away, leaving all the rooms clear for lunch, nap time cots, quieter nap time play for non-nappers, etc. No drama, because Mom had built the ultimate no-drama tool: As newbies on Day #1, each child had learned This Is The Way It’s Done Here by absorbing the calm, no-drama way all 25 other kids simply put everything away. Nobody got upset, whined, cried, pouted, argued, etc.; that kind of thing Just Wasn’t Done. Peer pressure. :-)

Wanda and Darryl should have been teaching the kids how to clean up after themselves from the very beginning. Darryl, however, should already know how to be responsible and clean up after himself. He’s supposed to be an adult.

Haha! XD

Nag the kids, they’re part of your responsibility as a parent.

Darryl, on the other hand, is not your responsibility. He’s an adult and he knows what he should do. He should be prepared to take the consequences if he doesn’t. Don’t iron his clothes or pick up after him. If something he does makes your life more difficult, then ask him to take care of it.