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Don’t ground them; anti-ground them

July 27, 2015

I swear if I have to take the computer or the Playstation remotes away one more time I’ll just get rid of both. Well, I would, but I kind of like using them myself. I am running out of hiding places, though. I’ve heard from so many parents that they have to take away screen […]

Cliches, hot tub parties and puberty: a post in pictures

March 22, 2015

Well hi there! I was rummaging around my stack of drawings the other day and found a few cartoons that, for whatever reason, haven’t been posted. So I thought it would be nice to do an all-cartoon post today. The cartoon above was originally a crappy little drawing I did before I got more serious about […]

The teens they are a’changin’

March 9, 2015

Son, you’ve heard of dog years but what about teen years? Here’s how that works: to calculate a teen’s age in people years, you need to subtract 10. So, a kid who’s been on the planet for 13 years is really about 3 in people years. I figured this out through a highly scientific study […]

I’m not dead yet

June 24, 2014

OK, so it’s been a little while since I last posted. I know what you’re thinking but I’m not dead. If I were, I’d have all the time in the world to write posts (in between breaking rocks and applying burn cream—don’t know why, but I’ve always assumed I’d be heading south when I […]

How to get what you want. Or not.

November 3, 2013

Son, your amazing ability to want everything you see is equaled only by your tireless commitment to not expending any energy to get it. Go figure. I get it: you want a Bugatti. It looks cool and it goes super fast. Well, actually, it has the potential to go fast–about 5 times faster than you’ll […]