I this point I reveal my atavistic nature and recommend smacking the child. Applied aversive training experience has advantageous uses. Not to be applied often, not in public. Never embarrass the child, it distracts them from the main POINT. Good kindergarten teachers can play a child’s nervous system like a pipe organ with well-taught gestures. First one must get their serious attention.Then additional behaviors can be inculcated. Works on most knownmammals. Ignore it at your peril.
I remember the strip where Tom Binkley comes apart when he turns the big 4-0. I guess from the viewpoint of anyone young (whether Binkley’s age or college aged like I was when this strip first was out in 1984) that 40 or even the 30’s do seem rather old.
Funny how one’s perspective changes as the years go by and as our frame of reference encompasses more and more years, certain periods of time such as summers and single years fly by so much ****ing faster. My college aged daughter is currently perplexed that her summers are going by much faster than 10 or 12 years ago when she said they seemed “endless”. Jesus, I remember thinking the same thing at her age. I will not enlighten her that this “quickening” will likely accelerate for her but rather I hope she enjoys these next few years of true freedom as a college upperclassmen and possibly graduate student and that she makes the best of them in order to have the most optimum future possible as I suspect we will be facing tumultuous times in the coming years and decades.
I wish Breathed would start posting again on the 2019 site.
I brought BETTY BOOP creator and premier animation artist on the character of Show White for Walt Disney to Toronto in 1980. I had been told by young animation artists from Toronto who had gone to Hollywood and met him that he was senile. Farthest thing from it. Sharp as a tack. He celebrated his 90th birthday in Toronto. When he turned 100 I bought the inside back cover of an animation directory to mark the occasion. They threw a huge party for him. Why? Because I was 34 when I met him. So many are dead in their twenties. Grim was alive in every sense of the word that matters until the last breath left his body. He became a mentor for me. Those young artists who thought him senile were typical of many who dismiss us as we grow older. They are not, however, all. I have posted videos of Grim’s Toronto talks on the web. He’s a Master still teaching. Death has not silenced him. Yeah, I’d like to see Breathed posting again.
I had just gone 30 the first time some pimply kid at McDonald’s called me “Ma’am”. I very courageously contained my meltdown until I got back to my car.
Alexander the Good Enough almost 3 years ago
Try being 60, then 70. That’s when the end will really hove into view and the future will start seriously going away…
LesliePiper4 almost 3 years ago
I this point I reveal my atavistic nature and recommend smacking the child. Applied aversive training experience has advantageous uses. Not to be applied often, not in public. Never embarrass the child, it distracts them from the main POINT. Good kindergarten teachers can play a child’s nervous system like a pipe organ with well-taught gestures. First one must get their serious attention.Then additional behaviors can be inculcated. Works on most knownmammals. Ignore it at your peril.
TampaFanatic1 almost 3 years ago
I remember the strip where Tom Binkley comes apart when he turns the big 4-0. I guess from the viewpoint of anyone young (whether Binkley’s age or college aged like I was when this strip first was out in 1984) that 40 or even the 30’s do seem rather old.
Funny how one’s perspective changes as the years go by and as our frame of reference encompasses more and more years, certain periods of time such as summers and single years fly by so much ****ing faster. My college aged daughter is currently perplexed that her summers are going by much faster than 10 or 12 years ago when she said they seemed “endless”. Jesus, I remember thinking the same thing at her age. I will not enlighten her that this “quickening” will likely accelerate for her but rather I hope she enjoys these next few years of true freedom as a college upperclassmen and possibly graduate student and that she makes the best of them in order to have the most optimum future possible as I suspect we will be facing tumultuous times in the coming years and decades.
I wish Breathed would start posting again on the 2019 site.
rhartt4363 almost 3 years ago
I brought BETTY BOOP creator and premier animation artist on the character of Show White for Walt Disney to Toronto in 1980. I had been told by young animation artists from Toronto who had gone to Hollywood and met him that he was senile. Farthest thing from it. Sharp as a tack. He celebrated his 90th birthday in Toronto. When he turned 100 I bought the inside back cover of an animation directory to mark the occasion. They threw a huge party for him. Why? Because I was 34 when I met him. So many are dead in their twenties. Grim was alive in every sense of the word that matters until the last breath left his body. He became a mentor for me. Those young artists who thought him senile were typical of many who dismiss us as we grow older. They are not, however, all. I have posted videos of Grim’s Toronto talks on the web. He’s a Master still teaching. Death has not silenced him. Yeah, I’d like to see Breathed posting again.
monya_43 almost 3 years ago
Don’t like to think about it, but we’re all circling the drain. Nobody gets out alive.
Sisyphos almost 3 years ago
Perched there upon his sleeping Dad, blabbering his mental drivel, Young Binkley is truly The Imp of the Perverse….
aerotica69 almost 3 years ago
I had just gone 30 the first time some pimply kid at McDonald’s called me “Ma’am”. I very courageously contained my meltdown until I got back to my car.