Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 28, 2020

See, it’s perfectly regular to neglect your kids.

yup it sure is

Speaking from experience, it’s usually the Dad that does the ignoring.

Mothers are regular persons with regular feelings? Is Pastis allowed to peddle this nonsense?

Anybody that would want to have a child AND go through labor pains …

Well, at least she didn’t put him up for adoption.

This one is weird. Nice message, Captain Obvious.

It appears the moral decline of the western world is directly linked to the decline in respect for your parents and/or elders.

Someone once told me how babies were made. I said, “No way — not my parents!”

It’s hard to imagine her wanting to have anymore out of life than taking care of me, and especially that thing that should be forbidden to all Moms; s-e-x… oomph, I just threw up in my mouth a little!

Maybe some other moms are/were “regular persons.” But my Mom was MY Mom, and there’s nothing “regular” about that! I’m sure she’s in heaven, now. She had enough of the other place while here on Earth. I was/am kinda devilish….

Shouldn’t this strip have run on Mother’s Day? The May 10th strip had nothing to do with mothers.

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2020/05/10?ct=v&cti=2442286

Boy, somebody has mommy issues.

It is a shocking revelation, but each child must eventually get there…

You can only work with the material on hand ….. Croc Power !

NOBODY thought my mother was a regular person.

Not sure my mum would qualify as regular, either. I KNOW for a fact and from personal experience with her that when she stood in front of GOD at the gate, she looked down her nose and said “I see you’ve been in this position for quite a while. Lack of ambition, Sonny, what are you planning to do about it?”.

Gasp! PIG, do not say it……

I think that I was pretty good about trying to understand my mom and dad, and they were great parents. But it took me quite a while to see my grandmother (the only grandparent I ever met) as a regular person, and by then she was gone. Sorry, Grandma.

“OK, so let me see if I’ve got this right. In addition to being a neglectful mother, you were also a self-absorbed woman incapable of foreseeing the consequences of spreading your legs for the first man who came along, and then as a result ended up wallowing in a lifetime of bitter resentment toward everyone around you, including your innocent offspring. Does that about sum it up?”

I really don’t want to clean up that mess of brain goop.

And after his stunned little brain exploded, Mom went sky-diving …………. again.

I had the best Mon ever! I still feel her wonderful effects even though she’s been passed on for 44 years!

Fake news!

This should be the Mother’s Day cartoon!

I blame 50s television. Hollywood was quite the propaganda machine of perfect moms. June Cleaver, Harriet Nelson, Donna Stone, Margaret Williams, Margaret Anderson. But real life wasn’t anything like that. There was a guy I knew whose mother walked out when he was a toddler and he never saw her again. His father worked for a company that gave him assignments all over the US and Europe so he was left with his father’s parents. When his father remarried, when he was 6, his father’s new wife didn’t want him to be part of the family so his grandparents continued to raise him. When his father died he wasn’t told. He found out when an old friend of his father expressed his condolences during a chance meeting months later. His father’s obituary did not mention him. Fortunately he married a wonderful woman who supported him at every turn.

And here we’ve been led to believe that it was only Fathers who harbored the resentment.

My little brain exploded years ago. What a mess.

Too advanced.

In her best-selling book, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, Jean Kerr quipped (and I’m paraphrasing here because I can’t find the original full quote), that when her children were grown they would not have to pay an analyst $50 an hour to find out why their parents didn’t understand them, their parents would tell them why; because they were impossible! That’s why!

remember boys and girls – “Be Kind to Your Parents”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3hnKqWrSBw

Yep folks, in the deleted frame, she demands a DNA test, and asks his name.

I had a girl in my class in 7th grade who claimed her mother was kinda like this.

Mothers have always been people. Fathers as well.

It would have been so easy, obvious and culturally predictable to have the father as the go-to of parental neglect. Harry Chapin, been there, done that (and i saw him perform live, high five). So it took some cajones for Mr Pastis to have a woman not always on a pedestal and human, fallible.

Speaking of stunned little brains exploding, I just started a story in which the heroine has donated some of her (deceased) husband’s RNA to his (living) male lover so he might be able to have kids whose genetic makeup includes some of his lover’s genes…

That makes it okay to resent the children that you chose to have?

Whaaaaaaaaat

GASP… my world is turned upside down!!!