Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for December 18, 2023

How about books on an iPad instead of paper books.

Flip that turtle!

That backpack is bigger than Gracie!

Maybe a tump line.

That’s the irony. As more stuff goes electronic, somehow kids are carrying more and heavier books to school at ever younger ages. Elementary school kids have been recorded carrying bags a third their weight.

I see this almost every day at the elementary school, they are bigger than the child.

Do you need all those books in your backpack?

Leave her! Leave her!

Both would be ideal right now.

Wheels. And a motor.

This is SOOOO my daughter. She’s a packrat. Give her a bag and she will fill it absolutely to capacity. It’s not like the school gives her a lot of required things to carry; it’s more than she wants to bring a lot of things “in case”. She’s taken the scouting motto to the logical extreme. Art supplies, makeup, spare clothes, a stuffed animal in case someone needs comforting, medicine, bandages, books, a blanket, tools, emergency sprinkles…..

And yet she won’t bring a coat unless forced. :-D

She is to smart to let that happen!

That’s probably twice as many books as you carry, Baldo!

Yes, and since many schools have removed lockers, kids are now suffering the same back problems older people have.

Book lover ?

Just because you were never so ambitious . . .

I have a hard, wheeled, pullout handle suitcase that weighs more empty than the clothes I put in it!

When I did K-12, there were NO backpacks except for camping trips in summer.

I have a “day” backpack that I use when we go on trips to places where we will not have easy access back to the car/RV. I mostly carry husband’s stuff for him in the pack – among other things always have to have a snack available as he is Diabetic – plus his cameras, etc.