Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for March 15, 2012

How dumb is this kid? She has GOT to learn responsibiity!

Just put all the sickies in one house and the well ones in the other house. they are next door to each other. than feed the sickies with a 10 foot pole and bucket on the end.

Wait! I hear the “Bring-out-your-dead!” cart coming.

I wonder if “Rent-a-Mom” is a business opportunity. Hm.

Rent a mom! Now there’s an idea!

dkendraf has it right! It’s hard moving from being a kid to someone who is responsible. Plus her mom is down for the count, so she’s not much help.

@lightenup Let’s see, a mom that actually gets paid with more than smiles and hugs, I have a feeling they’d do it but unfortunately most of us couldn’t afford them. I believe the latest figures say that a mother’s time is worth well over $100,000. a year now for all they do.

They didn’t.

Well, Lingee is pretty close to correct. About half of the population in Europe succumbed to the plague. In many places, all of the ill where hustled into “pest houses” (quite often the village church) and food was left outside, about twenty feet from the door. Bring in the food, and dump the dead on the doorstep to be collected.

Moms really come in handy some time – don’t they? Sometimes it takes people a long time (even going into supposed adulthood) to realize what their Moms have done for them. Appreciate your Moms each day – you will miss them when they are gone!

Well, at least she brought them tea – that’s something. For a couple of years I had to threaten my mild-Aspie teenage grandson with mayhem to get him to bend over, pick up a clean diaper for his sister, and hand it to me. (“With mayhem” modifies “threaten,” not “grandson” [usually].) When I asked him to pick up something in his room, he was likely to say, “I don’t do *house*work!”

Put all the sickies together and they can tag-team it. ;-)

Holly sounds more like a 3 year old

Too bad Holly was never a Scout or 4-H er (though perhaps she wouldn’t have lasted), she would have more information about what to do for sick folks in the family.

Holly is typical for a girl her age, very self-centered.

I was in Holly’s shoes when I was 13. My mother had a nasty case of the flu and I had to miss a day of school to care for her and the four puppies we had. It wasn’t easy.

LOL! Love this! Holly is just another narcissistic teenager!

Survival of the fittest.