FoxTrot by Bill Amend for September 04, 2011

If my kid said that sort of stuff to me not only would I not come back but I’d make sure she got none of those cookies later either.

Listen to learn here:

Always LOOK at mom before being mean to her. U never know what goodies she might be bringing.LOVE YOU MOM!

But but but what if they were Tofu Eggplant cookies?

@DDD

If they were Tofu Eggplant cookies, they wouldn’t have smelled yummy, now would they?

When you were a teen, did you look before you leaped?

The moment my 14 year old talks to her mom like that, she’ll wish she could leap faster.

I feel like that SO many times.

Now she’s bringing me cookies. You rant, you lose.

the nanny bot didn’t censor twypsi’s comment? i’m surprised.

Man, if I had said anything like that to a parent when I was 14, I would have been looking at a belt somewhere other than around a waist.

That’s for sure, TexTech.

thats why you should look at your mom before being mean to her!

Talk about blowing it, Paige. Had I talked like that to my parents, then I would’ve been grounded for a month AND pulled out of band.

Yeah, that’s a 14 year old girl all right. The chocolate chips will calm them every time.

Are they made with real sugar, milk, egg, flour, and chocolate, not a bunch of healthy substitutes?

@ Gryph0n: I like that philosophy!

I had a better idea with my twin girls at 14 (now 27). I kept a calendar for each one of the year they would turn 16. A minor issue was one day, any kind of disrespect for their mother (they knew better than to try it with me) was a week. Any major issue (there were none) was a month. After a few months, one of them asked what the calendars were for. When I told them, things changed just a little.

The calendars were marking the amount of time after they turned 16 before I would let them get their driver’s license.

Although I think Paige is stupid for talking before she looked, I understand how she feels. It’s annoying having people monitoring your every move like sick stalkers. And given the reputation of her mom’s cooking, I think Paige is better off without those cookies.

Paige can be a real brat sometimes – NO COOKIES FOR YOU!

That’s the way the cookie crumbles.

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Did I just say that?

COOKIE!

You don’t want to eat MOMS cookies.

Paige doesn’t want any

stop butting into my life, it’s none of your concern Paige, do you know how much your mom does for you?