One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for June 19, 2014

Where’s Ruthie’s “Do’s” for Parents?…

Hardly worth having children at all, if you can’t yank their chains.

We have a running joke on pizza night. When I come back from picking up the pizza my daughter asks “Did you get pizza?” and I respond “They didn’t have pizza they gave me pizza instead.” Been doing that since she was 5.

I would add to this, “Don’t admire our ‘cuteness’ where we can hear you. We’re not trying to be cute.”I feel sorry for James.

I remember some kind of ad or commercial with a boy that stays waiting for her dad to come and pick him up, with a baseball and glove in hand, but at that time I didn´t speak a word of English, so never knew what it was about.

Ok that little boy hit too close to home. He makes me want to cry too.

And the most important one of all:

“Don’t leave me strapped into a car seat in a car parked in the sun in Atlanta in June for 8 hours while you go to work having “forgotten” I was there."

(Based on recent real events.)