Brevity by Dan Thompson for December 29, 2011

Jeez!

Yeah, make those kids EARN those desserts!

“Just you remember, Mommy… some day you’ll want a drink of water in the nursing home.”

You mean she ate her Brussels sprouts for nothing?

I’m sure she grow up to be mentally well balanced.

Ewww! With that attitude she might not live long enough to end up in a nursing home.

America was great when we had more parents like this.

Konrad—there’s a difference between discipline & meanness. This woman has stepped over that line, sorry to say.

Just to expand on my other comment: If the situation had been that the girl was supposed to, say, clean her room, but instead went out to play iin the pool, and her mom said she couldn’t have any dessert because she didn’t clean her room when she was supposed to, that would be discipline.

Here the mom is punishing the girl for something that may be beyond her control. She may have been doing the best she could at handstands, but because she maybe just started learning to do them, or because her body is growing and she’s a little clumsy, her handstands weren’t as graceful as those of someone with more practice or who was a trained gymnast or something.

Kids don’t learn w/o consequences. If only my parents had treated me this way.

To me, this panel lacks anything worth publishing – for any reason.

I can’t figure out why it is showing up on my computer.

Wow. I often times go to the comments to try and figure out a G&R comic, but this time I felt compelled to post. This was just plain mean-spirited and not at all amusing. Unless I’m missing a subtle point they are trying to make.

Kids don’t learn w/o consequences; but these two incidents seem totally disconnected. That would be like my wife denying me something now because I got an MRI on our first anniversary (which did happen, many, many years ago).

That’s child abuse in my way of thinking!

I see therapy in the future.

harsh

She probably won’t have to get therapy because she’s not real, but who knows.

That’s cold – and I don’t mean the ice cream.

finally a woman that appreciates good handstands. when that kid is rewarded with ice cream one day, shes gonna know that she done good.

I just don’t get this comic and can’t figure out how to delete it from my comics page.

This is mean-spirited and cruel at any time, and especially inappropriate at this time of year. Brevity jumped the shark a long time ago, and I have just about decided to give it up for lost.

Well, as long as we’re travelling that road:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nADFJlAggnY&feature=player_embedded

Not at all funny! Good bye Brevity!

hello – love your comments and you are great – but today’s comic was painful to read…. and not funny in the least – Keep up the good work; everyone’s entitled to make a mistake once in awhile…Blessings and Happy New Year from Montana :)