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   SchmoozeMinkey said, about 1 month ago

   Yup, these are oldies.

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   EarlWash said, about 1 month ago

   From the mouths of babes.

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   mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago

   The innocence of a child.

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   johnnydoc5 said, about 1 month ago

   Everything is a competition.
   
   That being said, my mom was an excellent artist and poet. Good reader too.

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   Gweedo Murray said, about 1 month ago

   I bet the teacher won’t kiss your owie better and make your favorite grub for dinner or dessert.

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   Just plain Steve said, about 1 month ago

   Or sing you to sleep, or cuddle you when the world gets nasty!

   (Sept 21 1925 - June 26 2008 – RIP, Mom!)

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   OpenWings said, about 1 month ago

   LOL Gweedo Murray - your owie :o))

   And what’s with John’s expression in the last panel; that looks suspiciously like a smirk to me. Hope Elly doesn’t turn around and see that! Although at least he did the hand on the shoulder thing :o)

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   yyyguy said, about 1 month ago

   Steve my sympathies. i lost my mother 9 days earlier than you did yours, and still miss her.

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   BlitzMcD said, about 1 month ago

   It’s inevitable. You may not realize it until you’re 26. Or 53. Or 77. But you will come to one irrefutable conclusion eventually: your Mom is always right!

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    Macushlalondra said, about 1 month ago

    My mom taught me to read when I was 3 years old.

    As for John I’d like to see what things the teacher does better than him. Seems he’s always getting to be smug at Elly’s expense.

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    gaebie said, about 1 month ago

    I think John is trying to comfort Ellie with his hand on her shoulder and a slight smile. Why do you always think negative about him?

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    Susan001 said, about 1 month ago

    Steve and Gweedo:
    Does Elly ever do those things? I’ve never seen it.

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    FishStix said, about 1 month ago

    Mom was an English major; she’d only point us towards the dictionary and we learned to dig for answers ourselves. Thanks, Mom!

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    heligmyer said, about 1 month ago

    He’s getting you back for that stare, yesterday.

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    bald 716 said, about 1 month ago

    elly, you will realize that the kids actually turn out okay in the end

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    The_Ol_Goaler said, about 1 month ago

    Meh… I got in trouble in kindergarten when I got bored with the story the teacher was reading, and grabbed another book and started reading myself… OUT LOUD! (Yeah, I was louder than the teacher… and I was “the quiet one” in my family!) I literally cannot remember a time when I could not read; that skill came in handy when I started a career in broadcasting! (grin)

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    DavidDow said, about 1 month ago

    Rerun.

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    howtheduck said, about 1 month ago

    I honestly cannot remember a time when any of my children said a thing like this to me or to my wife. Have any of you had kids who compared you to their teacher like this?

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    kab2rb said, about 1 month ago

    Not me only one type of challenge is homework. Sometimes when my kids where small and had homework they would ask me I find out where they where see the answer and head them in the direction. My daughter always got mad at the teachers, because of comparing her to another girl student and she did not like that at all. When she went to college she did her own homework and found out how different it was and no comparison. I think she liked college better then HS.
    Like son and father. That smirk on John’s face.

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    Wildmustang1262 said, about 1 month ago

    My mum was wonderful teacher for the deaf and “mother” since I was born and grew up. She was my teacher and I thanked her for teaching me how to pronounce each c_? (I can’t think of how to spell that word) and vowel letters.
    Alas, I can feel that she looks over me from heaven and has a big smile. (June 26, 1924 - December 7, 1988, miss you very, very much, Mum)

21. 

    Rmom said, about 1 month ago

    That is one advantage of being a homeschool mom. My kids have never told me that their teacher did something better than I did!

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    summerdog said, about 1 month ago

    I had a teacher that was prettier than my mom, but I wouldn’t tell her that.

          **MOM**
    
    

    Feb.5, 1920 - Nov.10, 2004

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    Joe Allen Doty said, about 1 month ago

    My mother could draw, write (print or cursive letters) and read as well as any of my grade school teachers. When Mom was in grade school, they had real penmanship classes and did exercises in learning how to write in cursive.

    But, unlike my 6th grade Music teacher, she couldn’t sing a capella though. But, Mom’s singing was always music to my ears.

    While I minored in art when I was an undergraduate, I didn’t take the teachers’ course in art which was usually taken by elementary majors.

    While it wasn’t called that back then at the college I attended, one could say I majored in Secondary Education and Spanish with a declared minor in Art and an undeclared minor in French.

    I took the teacher’s course in art when I went back to continue in the Master of Education degree program that I as in when I was drafted into the US Army.

    I had taught one year in a small community before I was drafted and I taught art in the elementary grades as well as a high school art class and foreign language classes at the high school level.

    The art instructor who taught the teacher’s course never actually taught art classes in elementary school and only taught art at the high school level when she did her practice teaching while a senior in college. She was married to the head of the college art department,. They were not there when I was an undergrad.

    I passed the course which she taught; but, when it came to teaching children how to draw in the lower elementary grades, I was a better teacher than she was.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, about 1 month ago

    I am not sure when I first learned how to read.

    When we were little and Mom read from the Bible or story books, and we sat on her lap, she would point to the words as she read them.

    My younger brother, Sam, could read a lot of words by the time he was 4 years old. He had gotten an alphabet book where complete sentences were used with each letter.

    People assumed that he had merely memorized each page of the book and wasn’t actually reading. But, when he was shown the words on a list and not in any order, he could read them all.

    While Mom rarely helped me with my homework, she did help my siblings quite a bit. Although she only had an 8th grade education, she was a better teacher than many of the grade school teachers we had.

    When I was in the 3rd grade at Inola, Oklahoma, we were issued new readers. The teacher told the class to read a certain number of pages during the reading class. Well, when she noticed I had read more than the assignment, she wouldn’t let me take the book home. But, she let the others take theirs home.

    I couldn’t help it that I was a faster reader than the others. But, I felt like I was punished because of it.

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    NanaLinda3 said, about 1 month ago

    Hi all.

    Wildmustang, the word you were looking for is consonants! As soon as I read your comment and that you couldn’t remember that word (or how to spell it) - I drew a blank, too, until I had thought about it for a bit!

    To all who think Elly is a complainer, etc.: I never think Elly is complaining, exactly - I think Lynn is drawing the situation as it pops up for Elly, so it’s kind of her “point of view” of the scene that Lynn does such a good job of presenting. Old or new, I like the comic for what it is - a slice of the life of a busy housewife and mother, who is an intelligent, educated person. There is a lot of dry wit going on here. I think most of John’s seemingly chauvinistic comments are innocent and clueless - he has no idea he’s being chauvinistic. Would guess it only seems reasonable to him! :) Am guessing there are many, many men who do and say many of the same things John does. Therein lies the brunt of the joke, actually - if he didn’t say those things, there wouldn’t be any point to drawing that particular situation…. It is, I admit, a very feminine point of view! :)

    Never had a teacher for competition, thank goodness. But I have had good relationships with all but one of the teachers for my 4 kids. That one was not in teaching because he loved kids - he was in it because it was a “respectable profession” and paid well, and you get school vacation off! I think I’ve always liked teachers because I have at least a half dozen people in my family on both my Mom’s side and my Dad’s side who were educators. In fact, there are still several educators in our family to this day!

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    Burgundy2 said, about 1 month ago

    Hi NanaLinda3

    Thanks for clearing up Wildmustang’s mystery. And thanks also for giving the strip a positive spin. I, too, don’t think it’s meant to be as negative as some are interpreting it.

    Re: Mom - teacher comparisons - I don’t recall ever thinking that way. It would have been like comparing apples and oranges.

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    snakemama said, about 1 month ago

    My mother was a volunteer in my kindergarten class (30 yrs ago). I can still remember her cooking with us, making art projects, and teaching us to count in French. My mother was magic in those days…still is ;-)

28. 

    trekkievoynut said, about 1 month ago

    Harsh beng demoted 0:)

29. 

    diggit03 said, about 1 month ago

    aw elly they love you more don’t worryyyyy!!