Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for January 12, 2024

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    allen@home  10 months ago

    Wanda said yesterday at the doctor office different kid. Whoever was sick got better in a hurry.

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    oddhumor  10 months ago

    A cold usually isn’t sufficient reason to keep a kid home from school. Or at least they weren’t years ago when I was in school. It might be a different story now after the pandemic.

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    iggyman  10 months ago

    What if you get it too Zoe, and you and Hammie have to spend a week home together?!

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    sirbadger  10 months ago

    Zoe is overconfident about her ability to avoid the cold virus while living in the same house as 2 sick people. Did she get a hazmat outfit for Christmas?

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    Macushlalondra  10 months ago

    Hammie’s teacher will thank you but your mother won’t! She’ll be stuck with him all day til he gets better.

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    BenGMan  10 months ago

    Was that on purpose?

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    cracker65  10 months ago

    The cycle is continuous at our house. One of our kids brings in something from school. Me, or my wife gets it. Usually me. Then, the other child gets it. Then the other parent. Usually my wife, which is strange because she’s a stay at home mom while I work. Nowdays it seems like strep is what most kids spread. There’s a lot of them getting the flu as well this season.

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    arolarson Premium Member 10 months ago

    Even with only adults in the house you can end up trading germs. Once hubs and a colleague were sent out of town for a conference. On the way home they were flying a plane known to this day as “the plane of death” because so many people were obviously sick with flu. So he gets home and spends another week off work, passes it to me as well and it is the sickest I have ever been with flu in my life, and then we pass it back to each other again!

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  10 months ago

    Nice big hug for Wren.

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    KageKat  10 months ago

    I suspetc this will get even MORE common in my household after our second kid is born.

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    6foot6  10 months ago

    What is she hoping the teacher will do for her? extra playground time?

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    MS72  10 months ago

    Is that the standard now? Out a whole week?

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    ctolson  10 months ago

    I remember as a kid in the 50’s, the mothers in our neighborhood having Chicken Pox, Measles, Mumps, etc. parties when one of their kids came down with the affliction and the rest of us kids were the guests of honor. Could never understand why they purposely wanted to suffer through us being sick.

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    Just-me  10 months ago

    And that’s how I got chicken pox.

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    ladykat  10 months ago

    My mother wouldn’t even let me stay home when I had a fractured skull in Grade 8.

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    DawnQuinn1  10 months ago

    For many years, even before the pandemic, society freaks out when one kid gets a cold, then the who school system closes down. They are afraid another kid will catch a cold. Suck it up. Get your kids away from technology and outside to play, let their bodies build up immunity to simple ailments. Gees as kids, if one kid got chicken pox , all other mothers sent their kids over to get it and “get it over with.” We all survived, and grew up healthy. Kids now are wimps, always sick. A lot of “allergies” came about because kids were not exposed to anything, their bodies cannot tolerate anything. How did peanut allergies become so common? It was almost nonexistent until kids were “protected” from everything. Now a kid catches everything because their bodies CANNOT build immunity to anything. We beat smallpox, because were were injected with cowpox, and our bodies said “Not so fast smallpox, we fought off cowpox, and we can fight off YOU” . Kids these days live in a sterile bubble. Not us.

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    ilovecomics*infinity  10 months ago

    I’m sick of coworkers loudly coughing in my presence and then declaring “don’t worry, it isn’t Covid.”

    Okay, but it’s something ELSE I don’t want to catch!

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    curtlyon19  10 months ago

    this is funny! however we always stayed home with colds and my kid too but there IS an advantage to ‘toughing up’ immune systems from diseases caught at shool as children

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    Smeagol  10 months ago

    Kids are petri dishes with legs, a cold may be OK to send them to school but a fever means stay home.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  10 months ago

    Makes the teacher happy.

    Makes Hammie happy.

    Wanda may be unhappy.

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    kinich79  10 months ago

    The kid is a smooth operator… definitely see her making a fortune in Wall Street when she grows up.

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    The Quiet One  10 months ago

    I’m sure the teacher thanks you. Your parents, maybe not so much.

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    ToneeRhianRose  29 days ago

    Haha! (^▽^)

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