Your turn to cook dinner. I'm done today. Me? No I meant Toby. Oh, good. Awesome. I'm ordering pizza. Toby, I was being sarcastic. Oh. But yeah. Order pizza.
Too bad she was being sarcastic. We taught our kids to cook from a very early age. They start by helping out. By the time they’re eight years old they were all cooking full meals by themselves and they also clean up, do the dishes, help around the house, with construction, farm work in addition to their school work and play. Toby would be better off if he had more expectations from his parents, and if they demonstrated the skills.
Slackers! BTW… Greg… sorry to point this out but you switched Toby from a polo shirt in panel 2 to his habitual black-striped t-shirt in the last panel.
My mother didn’t believe in letting children of either sex go out into the world without knowing how to cook, clean, and do laundry, so she made sure my sister and I had plenty of practice. My brother-in-law’s mother was of the opposite opinion – she was going to take care of her boys – so he was awful lucky he married my sister. I don’t think he ever cooked until he was managing a Pizza Hut.
I was cooking for my younger brothers by 8 or 9. Housecleaning all of us were doing at an even younger age. Also mending our shirts and jeans (sewing on patches, replacing buttons).Being the eldest of three sons to a single mother in the 60s meant we boys had to learn to do for ourselves.
The shirt thing… it was a booboo. How I, and then my sharp-eyed editor, missed it, I don’t know. Joey might have caught it, but I’m running so close to deadline that by then, it’s just too late. Also the reason I was rushing, working late, and drawing the wrong collars on shirts. Ugh.
pubwvj almost 11 years ago
Too bad she was being sarcastic. We taught our kids to cook from a very early age. They start by helping out. By the time they’re eight years old they were all cooking full meals by themselves and they also clean up, do the dishes, help around the house, with construction, farm work in addition to their school work and play. Toby would be better off if he had more expectations from his parents, and if they demonstrated the skills.
Strod almost 11 years ago
Slackers! BTW… Greg… sorry to point this out but you switched Toby from a polo shirt in panel 2 to his habitual black-striped t-shirt in the last panel.
Comic Minister Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Sarah looks like she’s tired or being silly.
gcarlson almost 11 years ago
My mother didn’t believe in letting children of either sex go out into the world without knowing how to cook, clean, and do laundry, so she made sure my sister and I had plenty of practice. My brother-in-law’s mother was of the opposite opinion – she was going to take care of her boys – so he was awful lucky he married my sister. I don’t think he ever cooked until he was managing a Pizza Hut.
Llywus almost 11 years ago
I was cooking for my younger brothers by 8 or 9. Housecleaning all of us were doing at an even younger age. Also mending our shirts and jeans (sewing on patches, replacing buttons).Being the eldest of three sons to a single mother in the 60s meant we boys had to learn to do for ourselves.
gregcartoon Premium Member almost 11 years ago
The shirt thing… it was a booboo. How I, and then my sharp-eyed editor, missed it, I don’t know. Joey might have caught it, but I’m running so close to deadline that by then, it’s just too late. Also the reason I was rushing, working late, and drawing the wrong collars on shirts. Ugh.
Hunter7 almost 11 years ago
Ordering pizza is not cooking. Sarah said ‘cook dinner’. .Though Toby cooking might be scary.