Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for September 05, 2024

Parenting, in 1 sentence…lol.

The general role of the father.

I remember Bart and Lisa Simpson playing that game.

That is a good game. Especially during PE in a huge area with mats and other equipment laid out as islands.

Quite an imagination, kids!

It’s OK, kids. Dad has his asbestos socks on.

No theres a special rule parents don’t burn up

Daryl must have on his asbestos socks.

I remember doing things like that as a kid.

Now I want some toast.

Darryl’s putting on weight⠄⠄⠄

looks like 50 pounds or more

It’s a promotion from horsey back rides.

Did that as a kid. Mom didn’t appreaciate it when I kept knocking a stuffed chair over with a thud jumping over to it from teh couch.

I never played “lava” as a kid; never even heard of that joke. For us, it was “Avoid the Quicksand”.

I’ve seen several Kung Fu Movies where the fighters will fight on chairs, or tables, or whatever is in the room, and agree that if any part of either one of them touches the floor, he loses. And every one of those scenes was a good one…

Asbestos socks to the rescue!

We played lava, but it was also radioactive, to make it more of a challenge…..

Just go along with it, Daryl.

Drop them off at the naptime corral

It’s a TV game show now, apparently. (haven’t watched it.)

Drop them off on the big bean bag sofa.

Not so much “toast” as “a potato that fell in the campfire.”

I saw this in the movie Volcano, he needs to throw his kids to safety

“MacPherson Playground. Monkey bars speaking.”

I hear Robert Goulet singing “This Is All I Ask”: “Children everywhere, when you shoot at bad men, shoot at me. Take me to that strange Enchanted land, grown-ups seldom understand.”

I’m surprised that Hammie, with his known passion for peeing in the bushes in the back yard, didn’t “make” a path for himself to escape.

I remember playing pretend games, like walking around looking down into a hand-held mirror and pretending I was walking on the ceiling. Anybody else ever do that?

WOW!! Kids with imaginations!

Yeah… If the floor really WAS lava, Darryl would be slowly sinking while being completely engulfed in flames!

Asbestos socks may not save him. Lava can reach a temperature of 2,120 °F, whole asbestos has a melting point of 752 to 1,904 °F depending on other conditions.

My brothers and I used to play that game! It was fun! Ah, fond memories…

There might be a flaw in your thinking. If dad burns up you do too.

Just tell them that you learned the art of fire-walking at one of those company teamwork seminars.

As a parent (especially as a dad?), sometimes you get to consider yourself part of the furniture. Sometimes you are an obstacle to climb over or get around, sometimes a means of transportation, sometimes a beast or monster to fight or escape from, and sometimes a sanctuary from whatever dangers are around.