While Gordon and Mike commiserate with their complaints about summer chores, I notice that Brian Enjo is wisely keeping his mouth shut.
In the meantime, we have no Lawrence, which I guess means that Michael and Lawrence are still feuding over his thing with Martha that started back during Michael’s birthday party.
I feel kind of bad for my older daughter. I looked at my diary entries from when I was her age (15), and it was full of going swimming, going to friends’ houses, movies, other fun things: no school work. Because she is taking all Level 4 classes, she has summer homework: reading “The Lord of the Rings” (including the appendices) and “Once & Future King”, plus some pages of Algebra. Thankfully she loved LoTR and is enjoying O&FK, and we’ve been watching a movie a day when I get home from work…but she has to squeeze in other fun things.
This was just like a King of the Hill episode, where Hank is in his son’s room, and opens to blinds to get him out of bed.
Bobby Hill: “Ugg Dad, I did not get to bed until 3. I was up watching the Taxi marathon on Nick at Night.”
Bobby{impersonating Latka}: “Dank you veddy much”
Hank Hill: “Bobby, in this house you do not get to sleep through your summer vacations and spend your night watching what were probably re-runs like some shut-in! Here, I put together a list of chores for you and I made sure to alternate between heavy and light chores.”
Bobby: “Pulling weeds is not a light chore!”
Hank: “It is now, thanks to the weedwacker I just bought. Actually, I would not mind trying that out first. And do not worry about painting the garage…Hey! I am not giving you my chores and doing the things I like to do! You are getting a job!”
Care free and easy summers for kids didn’t start until post-WWII, and for farm kids it never occured. Your not entitled Michael, so be happy with what free time you did get.
The summer vacations that had the biggest impact on my psych were the family road trips to various national parks. Experiencing the beauty of various national parks as a child kept me from going astray. I developed an appreciation of the larger world around me.
Best summer vacation I had was between 3rd and 4th grades. Drove cross country to visit Dad’s family in Montreal and for my mother to win a bet with another mother that I’d turn out prettier at 9 than her daughter would (didn’t know that at the time). Drove Route 66, rode the El in Chicago, went to Radio City Music Hall in New York, saw Niagara Falls from the Canadian side and saw the lights turned on for the first time after WWII, saw Merimac (sp) Caverns, etc.
It is rare to hear Gordon complain. He seems to take on whatever kind of work he can find. Brian does well in school, and has there ever been a single strip of Lawrence doing something wrong. This may sound biased, but the strip seems to portray Michael and Elizabeth as the only “bad kids”.
When I was 13 years old during summer vacation I got up early in morning around 6:00 am help a farmer milk cowsThen help with trashing wheat till evening the went home got a bar of soap bath in the creek then to country store for ice cream all 25 cent an hour. Best part of day was meal time.
The comments that kids were not given much time to be kids throughout much of world history was accurate. When World War 2 ended, it resulted in the 1950s, which was the most prosperous era in American history. Kids still did chores, but there was less association with “if you don’t do your chores, we don’t eat”. There was more time for play and industries began around that. Dick Clark invented the American teenager and Walt Disney invested the American childhood as we know it today.
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
yeah… good thing school starts soon
howtheduck over 5 years ago
While Gordon and Mike commiserate with their complaints about summer chores, I notice that Brian Enjo is wisely keeping his mouth shut.
In the meantime, we have no Lawrence, which I guess means that Michael and Lawrence are still feuding over his thing with Martha that started back during Michael’s birthday party.
Wren Fahel over 5 years ago
I feel kind of bad for my older daughter. I looked at my diary entries from when I was her age (15), and it was full of going swimming, going to friends’ houses, movies, other fun things: no school work. Because she is taking all Level 4 classes, she has summer homework: reading “The Lord of the Rings” (including the appendices) and “Once & Future King”, plus some pages of Algebra. Thankfully she loved LoTR and is enjoying O&FK, and we’ve been watching a movie a day when I get home from work…but she has to squeeze in other fun things.
HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member over 5 years ago
These guys don’t realize that besides helping their families they were also learning. In a few years they will find that useful.
micromos over 5 years ago
If I only had a time machine so I could return to the 50s and clue myself in.
rebelstrike0 over 5 years ago
This was just like a King of the Hill episode, where Hank is in his son’s room, and opens to blinds to get him out of bed.
Bobby Hill: “Ugg Dad, I did not get to bed until 3. I was up watching the Taxi marathon on Nick at Night.”
Bobby{impersonating Latka}: “Dank you veddy much”
Hank Hill: “Bobby, in this house you do not get to sleep through your summer vacations and spend your night watching what were probably re-runs like some shut-in! Here, I put together a list of chores for you and I made sure to alternate between heavy and light chores.”
Bobby: “Pulling weeds is not a light chore!”
Hank: “It is now, thanks to the weedwacker I just bought. Actually, I would not mind trying that out first. And do not worry about painting the garage…Hey! I am not giving you my chores and doing the things I like to do! You are getting a job!”
ajakimber425 over 5 years ago
Just wait until you graduate. Then, you’ll be lucky, if you ever get a vacation.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Care free and easy summers for kids didn’t start until post-WWII, and for farm kids it never occured. Your not entitled Michael, so be happy with what free time you did get.
kodj kodjin over 5 years ago
The summer vacations that had the biggest impact on my psych were the family road trips to various national parks. Experiencing the beauty of various national parks as a child kept me from going astray. I developed an appreciation of the larger world around me.
djhaisell Premium Member over 5 years ago
Who makes a preteen fix the roof?
rekam Premium Member over 5 years ago
Best summer vacation I had was between 3rd and 4th grades. Drove cross country to visit Dad’s family in Montreal and for my mother to win a bet with another mother that I’d turn out prettier at 9 than her daughter would (didn’t know that at the time). Drove Route 66, rode the El in Chicago, went to Radio City Music Hall in New York, saw Niagara Falls from the Canadian side and saw the lights turned on for the first time after WWII, saw Merimac (sp) Caverns, etc.
USN1977 over 5 years ago
It is rare to hear Gordon complain. He seems to take on whatever kind of work he can find. Brian does well in school, and has there ever been a single strip of Lawrence doing something wrong. This may sound biased, but the strip seems to portray Michael and Elizabeth as the only “bad kids”.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Complaining doesn’t make them bad kids.
Train 1911 over 5 years ago
When I was 13 years old during summer vacation I got up early in morning around 6:00 am help a farmer milk cowsThen help with trashing wheat till evening the went home got a bar of soap bath in the creek then to country store for ice cream all 25 cent an hour. Best part of day was meal time.
Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 5 years ago
If you spent your summer on a farm, you knew work comes before play, and sleep. Also, you learned to drive by the age of 13. Most likely in a truck.
USN1977 over 5 years ago
The comments that kids were not given much time to be kids throughout much of world history was accurate. When World War 2 ended, it resulted in the 1950s, which was the most prosperous era in American history. Kids still did chores, but there was less association with “if you don’t do your chores, we don’t eat”. There was more time for play and industries began around that. Dick Clark invented the American teenager and Walt Disney invested the American childhood as we know it today.