Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for August 20, 2013

Maybe it will pass for an outfit? Well, Evie is certainly picky in choosing her battles.

A quick fix so they won’t spend the entire day NOT leaving the house!

Evie is already regretting this, while Val is halfway out of the state laughing madly. LOL

Agreed! A wise parent picks her battles carefully.

I’m with you, bawana. My parents weren’t tyrants by any stretch of the imagination, but when I hear parents today say “I can’t get my kids to…"say, get up for church, I always think “your kids have a choice?” My folks gave us a lot of latitude and freedom in many ways, but when we had to do something like help out around the house or on the farm, there was no questioning it.

I am with you ‘PhoebeDog’. I was raised in a very regular household but I knew that when I was told by my parents orany other adult that I was in the care of told me to do something, I did it. I knew that if I failed, 1)the adult would advise my parent(s) of the transgression and 2) my peers would give me the ‘cold shoulder’ until I had ‘atoned’ for the transgression. Parents today allow too much ‘leeway’ in the way their children act: they want to be their friend instead of being their parent

my parents set rules and the 4 of us knew that we had to keep those rules but in some cases it was just a thing of respect. My dad never put a curfew on me when I was in high school, I just knew that he waited up for me when I was out and since he worked, on weeknights I was home by 10 and on the weekend by 11:30, Once I went with some friends to get Pizza in the neighboring town, after a football game, and when I got home at 2am he was sitting on the front porch, waiting. That was the only time I ever got into trouble for that, and I felt bad because he had to go to work at 8am. Kids now days are given too many choices, give them a rule and stick to it.

I’m with the rest of you, we obeyed our parents. My mom had a look that told you you had better do what she said NOW or you were in for it. My dad only had to start unbuckling his belt and we got in line fast. As for Evie and the girls, they haven’t even left the house yet and the trouble has started. I don’t envy Evie on this trip.

Gasp! Thud! dies from the smell

Reminds me of the old Minnie Pearl routine about her cousin Hezzie after he retired from pumpin’ gas at the local Sunoco Station for 40 years. . “Hezzie, how come you just stayed there and didn’t get a better job?”“I dunno… I started out at the bottom and I kinda LIKED it there!”

Hee hee hee!

Evie’s trying to keep the peace, sort of…this is but the preview of coming attractions… ;)

Holly shouldn’t be wearing perfume. Way too young. Reminds me of the tweenies that live across from me. Wearing teeny bikinis and teasing older men in the area. There should be a test for people before having kids.

Well, back in MY day, we had to walk ten miles to school in snow 5 feet deep, uphill both ways! Sheesh! Gimme a break.

And what does Alix smell like, after not bathing or changing her clothes in the middle of summer?