For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 27, 2012

Pick your poison, Elly.

♪♫ Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes the blues get a hold on you.. ♫♪

wasn’t there always a Mute button on those games?

Back about 100 years ago, when my children were small, it was the slamming, slamming, slamming screen door all summer long that drove my wife and I mad.

As long as there’s no fighting, I’m fine with the noise. I limit the video games though. I’d rather have kids being noisy than electronics.

Get earplugs. If the noise gets to you after that, then it’s time to check on the little…darlings.

Can’t win, Elly! Bottom line is – Kids are noisy!

Have them sit in a corner and extract cube roots to infinity. No noise!

try the mute button… they can still play without sound… can’t they.

Short drive :-D Those two little words got me grounded for a couple days once when I said them to my Mom. (Even though we later laughed about it).

critics. you need a sense of humor.

Elly must really miss those days now.

Instead of silently griping to herself about all the “noise” the kids are making, Elly should be in there enjoying a game of Pong, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Q-Bert, Galaga, Pole Position, Dig Dug, Frogger, Pitfall, etc., with them. Those old Atari video games were a real blast back then!!!!!