Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for June 13, 2023

Hammie count yourself lucky. If i told my mom i was bored. Well lets just say i learned quick never tell mom i was bored.

School’s been out only a couple weeks and already Hammie is bored?!

Let’s go to the city library, and sign you up so you can read books about Botswana

Children like Hammie are terrors. Hard to handle when they are bored. I raised a Hammie. So glad he is an adult now. It is becoming apparent his daughter is her father’s daughter. Lord. At least she is my son’s to raise and a huge dosage of his own medicine. I get reminders when I have her over. I always have to hide valuables, put away breakables – all in my bedroom closet where they are forbidden. Move the backyard latch to lock position – thankfully she is not interested in the front. She likes to swim in our backyard pool and requires supervision. I have to be in the pool with her and I can’t always do that. When she jumps all over my furniture, I give her a time out to calm down. I put her in a specific time out chair and tell her she has to sit still until my phone timer rings. Most of time she sits until the timer goes off. So far she has broken one reclining chair which is one of the 3 reclining chairs of a L-shaped sectional. When she plays with the power button for the reclining legs, I point to the broken one, she sighs and stops. I truly pity my son as this will worsen as she grows up….and everything hits the fan once she hits her teens. I think I will duck and hide until she is out of her teens. My son did outgrow the hyperactivity and I presume she will too.

Sometimes kids just need to be bored for a while and have the time to figure out what to do when you’re bored.

He probably enjoys saying Botswana.

the only time I was ever bored as a kid was while driving in the car. I was never bored while at home or outside. Kid needs to learn how to play.

My mom would have said "Clean your room, I’ll get you the dandelion digger and you can go out and dig dandelions, go pull all the grass out of the garden, etc. I learned quickly never to tell my mother I’m bored.

Give him chores to do. He’ll find something that won’t keep him bored.

It really winds me up when kids say that they’re bored. They have a mountain of things that we didn’t have at their age and we still managed to find things to do to occupy ourselves. These days they need to be spoon fed everything. The thought of going out to play, read a book or just make something up to do seems to have gone out the window.Shame really. Old git rant over.

Boring, for sure.

What is a vacation budget? If I had one, I’d rent a seaside cottage and eat nothing but sea food until I was sick of it.

We grew up next door to our grandparents, who had a large farm. My grandmother would take care of Hammie post haste. You think you’re bored now? Try waking up to a literal mountain of corn that needed to be shucked and silked. Or a couple of bushels of green beans that needed to be strung and broken. Of course, now I wish I could relive that, but at the time I remember telling my grandmother I hated green beans and besides we could always buy some at the grocery store. She’d say what if the grocery stores didn’t have food, and I was incredulous. She raised 7 kids during the Great Depression. I did love going down into her cellar and seeing all the cans of food and the different colors—red beets, green beans, yellow corn, orange peaches. It was almost magical.

Hammie, Hammie, Hammie, what is wrong with you boy? There are bugs, snakes, frogs, and lizards to be collected, streams and puddles to jump in. There are girls to tease, daredevil stunts you haven’t tried. There are swings to jump out of, merry go rounds to get sick on, There are pretend wars to fight, pretend robber to catch and pretend passes to head em off at. There is a whole world of imagination awaiting you.

“We’ll, if you weren’t bored, what would you be doing?”

Botswana?What’s wrong with Disney’s JUNGLE RIDE

“I went to Botswana and all I got was a case of chikungunya.”

Family vacations were almost nonexistent in my family. We just didn’t have the money. We would, however, drive north 5 hours to visit family Does that count? This is when we got to lie down and stick our feet out the windows! haha!

Trent’s family went to Botswana? Oh gimme African break!!

Reality overrides pretense.

In real life, Wanda would be wondering if they really went to Botswana, or if it was only the other boy’s imagination and they were actually going someplace a lot closer.

You could go on safari in downtown San Francisco. Plenty of animals there.

With the destruction Trent causes, his family can still afford THAT?

Did they take the kids?

Go pretend you’re a rogue elephant trampling Trent’s family in Botswana.

I have to admire Hammie as I can relate when I was a kid, more often than not bored. We all need a bit of boredom now and then.

Hammie, kids know how you feel. Our schools was out August 23.

I think it’s you that wants to pretend Wanda.

I’m glad I grew up pre-computer games. I was never bored. Yeah, watched some tv, but other than that, read a lot, played ball with the neighbor kids, road bike all over for miles around, lit a fire in the woods just to watch the fire department pull up with their trucks to put it out…(oops…did I say that out loud? Statute of limitations applies here, I hope!!)

Go read a book!