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   SchmoozeMinkey said, 4 months ago

   Then you won’t have to patch the holes in Max.

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   Macushlalondra said, 4 months ago

   Sounds like Max is totally undisciplined.

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   kab2rb said, 4 months ago

   Max is a child. Mom and dad need to get together.
   Too the readers of this strip. It was not my intention to bring a hornets nest up. About my leaving work years ago. Simply I could not aford daycare and daycare back then was not great. The job was not great and I did miss the income.
   I hope Stone Soup touches on topics that faces people like job loss, moms deciding to go to work, etc.
   Stone Soup is modern. Mean while this is Saturday I am going to the county zoo not sure about the rain. Have a great weekend

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   shadowwriter said, 4 months ago

   macush, he is merely a destructive normal little boy….muahahaha

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   paul345 said, 4 months ago

   Nothing “Normal” about the little monstrous brat…I ll bet the military are looking into parachuting him behind enemy lines! Same effect as a nuke, without the radiation!

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   3hourtour said, 4 months ago

   …when is Joan going out with the girls again?…

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   eatteaphonenome said, 4 months ago

   Max has the makings of a future serial killer

   1) 90% of serial killers are male – Check
   2) Abandoned by their fathers and raised by domineering mothers – Check
   3) families often have criminal, psychiatric and alcoholic histories– Check [Grandma throwing flower pots at her grandchildren’s heads is assault (crime) and just plain nuts (psychiatric) both mother and aunt like to get sloshed (alcoholic) to deal with their problems]
   3) tend to be intelligent, with IQ’s in the “bright normal” range – Check [Proved to be quite intelligent during the drop on his head series]
   4) involved with sadistic activity or tormenting small creatures – check [stomps on bugs, tapes up baby sister]

   At three years of age he checks out on 4 of the 14 commonalities of serial killers and the rest will have to until he is older to manifest…..

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   somebodyshort said, 4 months ago

   @ kab2rb You didn’t stir up a hornets nest. What you said was valid and appropriate. I took some good out of your comments and for that i say thank you

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   lightenup said, 4 months ago

   @kab2rb – I also don’t think you stirred up a hornet’s nest as you say. We all just talked about what’s on our minds and shared what we’ve been through, and that’s what a community (online or not) is all about. Thank you for sharing and listening to my story.

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    RinaFarina said, 4 months ago

    Max has always seemed to me to be an unusually cheerful, extremely energetic and active little boy. Not at all vicious by nature. The mischief is put in this week to make the point that he’s not being well handled. He needs what Ellie says in FBorFW in today’s strip - to be so busy all day that he wears out before his mother does.

    I agree with whoever it was said that Joan wasn’t handling the situation very well. But she hasn’t been able to get far enough away from it to think about it! Probably sending him to day care would be good for both of them.

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    Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

    If we didn’t involve our personal lives with our commentary, the pages would get pretty boring.

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    PatPiano said, 4 months ago

    Hey, I thought Max’s stepdad was laid off, or work was slow, he’s still going in to the office?

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    kab2rb said, 4 months ago

    Hi everyone had a good time got some rain, walked a lot, enjoyed being with some of my family.
    
    I can’t imagine though bring a child to the office. Children need playground time. I would really like to see how Stone Soup deals with layoffs and what others go through.