Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for August 28, 2014

Alix should move to Australia or somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere around Christmastime if she’s likes summer so much… but then she’d be missing her family in the NH.

Sorry, Alix, summer has come and gone… =-O

Give her the Ice Bucket Challenge

I agree with nkbush, my mother would have told me what I was going to be wearing, not asked me.

But if Val were to simply tell Alix what she’s going to wear, there’d be no comedy, no interesting story to enjoy, and no knowing smiles from parents who’ve done that.

HAHA Alix is really stuck in summer. Val is pretty much up to her eyebrows in frustration. xD

Tips,you should check with the school of what type clothing they allow otherwise you get notices your child is distrupting the class with certain clothing.

It’s Summer+El-Niño all year-round in Singapore… It’s NO BLOODY PICNIC over here…

Better be careful or someone is going show up from another strip and flash her badge.

Oh, one of the perks of homeschooling! I never went through this agony.Long-sleeved t-shirts might be the best solution for Alix.

I never went through this as a child, either, even though I wasn’t homeschooled. (Nobody heard about that option way back then.) My mom made all of my clothes. I got to select the pattern & fabric (Mom approved, of course), and Mom would sew it up. She’d made adjustments as I wanted (extra pockets, etc.) I really miss her.

“Lucky Alix doesn’t have an Uzi!!!”

Like what happened here…??

That is not even remotely funny!!! What hare-brained idiot believes it’s OK to hand a 9-year old child any sort of fully automatic weapon. And yes, my grandson and stepsons had BB guns, but not until they were at least 12 years old.

That’s okay. Alix will still be eight years old next summer, and the summer after that, and the summer after that, etc., etc., etc. Today’s strip repeats last year’s going back to school theme. A little bit of aging (just a little!) would at least shake things up a bit (imagine the fun of new story lines if Holly and Alix move on to a new grade every five years or so…)

I went to a private school, so didn’t have any say at all over my clothing, other than a theoretical choice of loafers or saddle shoes. (My mother preferred saddles shoes; I think she’d have had me wear them to the prom if she could.) One of my granddaughters was like Alex; purchase a 3-pack of socks – one tickled her toes, one was too tight, and one was just right..

great idea

so let her wear last year’s stuff. geez.

Aw man!

@everyone criticizing the instructor who gave the 9 year old the uzi. The guy got a instant death penalty and yet people are talking trash about him. Whatever happened to respect the dead? apparently that went out the window as well now days. And when we use that phrase it really doesn’t imply respecting them of course it just means stop talking trash on them. NO one here seems to be blaming the parents along side the instructor and the range at the same time. It was their initial stupidity that allowed this situation to start by going to the range in the first place with a girl who would have barely been fit to shoot a .22 long rifle as well as the ignorance of the range and the instructor to allow a Uzi to be used. When does the parents take responsibility and have some common sense? apparently not the ones that really need to use it and that is why we have these news stories unfortunately. There is a major MAJOR difference between the society of the US from the 1910s to the 90s up to today, it seems parents actually were parents and not relying on government of various levels nor worried about kids crying to cops about any discipline being in their childhood. With firearms back then im sure there were accidents but very much less than now. Its not a guns physical fault, it is the difference of how people are raised then from now and yes that does include the technology we have today that sensationalizes weapons and violence, but that wont stop either.

Wouldn’t have dared act up like that in public. My cheek would have gotten a hard pinching squeeze (called a Zetz) and a whispered through partly closed lips to stop Now or else.

Many years ago my wife took our granddaughter, then about 5 and starting kindergarten, clothes shopping before school started. Everything the girl picked out was in some shade of brown, generally lighter shades. My wife found the exact same outfit my GD had last tried on and apparently liked, but in a shade of green instead of tan or something on the brown spectrum. Holding it up for the girl to see, my wife asked, “How about this?” GD put a hand on her hip, threw it out, and protested, “Grandma, I can’t possibly wear that! It’s green! It’s not my style!” Which led me to the question, since when do five-year-olds even know what a style is, much less have one!?

I finally had a girl after 3 boys and delighted in all the mother-daughter outfits and attractive clothes until she was (not sure exactly) but early grade school. Then she wore brother’s hand-me-downs because that was what she insisted.

I sewed for my boys, too, but it wasn’t nearly the fun.

As to the gun, they are talking about changing regulations by age – silly idea!

It was apparent that she did not have the upper body strength to control the recoil of the weapon, but a boy the same age might (or not).

@Redkaycei RepocNow you know why there are fewer book stores left because you left 3 years ago. It takes awhile for some people to realize that their number one fan had left the building, isn’t that right Elvis. Uh, Elvis? Where did you go man?