Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for June 11, 2023

Now y’all know better. They hear everything they see everything. You two better watch what you say and do from now on.

Today’s strip is totally bogus- there’s no way Little Piggy found a restaurant with gluten-free English muffins.

It’s only when you say things TO them that they don’t pay attention.

Careful of what you say,

Children will listen.

I have to agree on the avocado toast thing. The second “influencers” stop promoting it, nobody will care anymore. Plus, it tastes like wet grass lump on bread.

Kids not only hear what you say, they repeat it back to other people at the most embarrassing times. Ask Dennis the menace who is always getting his parents in trouble by telling people what his parents have said about them at home.

The kids don’t miss a trick my Grandparents used to say!

And they always remember the bad words!

Reminds me of the Henson Cargill song Skip-A-Rope.

It really isn’t funny what the children say…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH-glqAqw7M

she was wrong. :}

Oh, they hear you. They just chose to obey selectively and repeat what they hear at the darnedest times. Remember Art Linkletter’s “Kids Say The Darnedest Things”.

Yes, kids have very big ears and will embarrass you at the darndest moments.

My wife worked with mildly learning disabled kids for years. You wouldn’t believe the stuff they told her. Little kids are listening and will rat you out in a heartbeat!

Saving this one!!!

Wren’s got some really pig toes.

Ah yes the three little McPherson Monkeys…….

Wren – Monkey Sees the evil

Zoe – Monkey Tattles about the evil

Hammie – Monkey commits the evil.

I’m with Hammie there. Avocado on toast is a pretty stupid trend. I prefer raspberry jam on toast.

Hammie isn’t wrong about avocado toast…

Don’t WE THIS, Don’t put this on him! Don’t Veganize Him.

They may be little but they are not stupid……

Some years ago, I was in a discussion on some website about how here in New York, people say “he had a baby over it” (meaning he got very angry), but in some states they say “he had kittens over it”. So now it seems that wherever these cartoonists live, people say that somebody "had a cow over it”.

My local independent grocer, which is always more expensive than the big chains, $1.79 for a dozen eggs.

I love this one.

They definitely have been paying attention. You’re going to have to be careful what you say around them.

They usually remember bad words and gossip, any thing else “gone”.

Watch the progression of Wanda’s expressions.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Never say anything that won’t bear being repeated.

When kids misbehaved on the school bus, I would admonish then with the prefix, “Because I love you and want to keep you safe….”

They would repeat it to their parents and unintentionally create allies to support me.

“almost had a cow”? Well I’m glad the piggy didn’t have a cow, man.

Reminds me of Skip A Rope, most notably sung by Henson Cargill.

They always know.

Good lesson!

WREN!

Kids are little pitchers!