Caption reads: “A puppy! Can I keep you?”
When it comes to kids and pets, love is blind. You can have a mangy, mean animal that looks like it should have gone to that great pound in the sky and the kid thinks it is smarter than Lassie and more beautiful than anything at the Westminister Dog Show!
I’m just glad when it came to love, my wife was blind. It gave me a chance to win her heart before her eyes opened.
Caption reads: “I can’t decide whether to do the right thing for the wrong reason or the wrong thing for the right reason.”
Ever had a time when there just didn’t seem to be any easy answer? There is nothing like getting in trouble for doing the right thing! Still, it is better to do the right thing and get in trouble than do the wrong thing and feel horrible even if you stayed out of the hot water.
Caption reads: “If you are wise, you will think before you do that.”
No animals have been harmed in the production of this cartoon. We have a cat. The kids have been tempted to do such a thing, but so far, so good. I hope this doesn’t give them an idea.
Caption reads: “I’d like a million dollars worth of wisdom, please. Can you just bill me?”
I look at this cartoon in two ways. On one hand, wisdom is valuable. It is rare and expensive but worth the price. I’ve seen plenty of smart people without much wisdom.
On the other hand, if you bill someone for an outrageous sum, is it wise? We’ll leave that up to the store clerk to find out.
Caption: “It’s nice, but Jesus needs a brown beard, the sky should be sunny and you put polka dots on the boy’s shirt. I don’t like polka dots.”
When I was four or five, I was coloring a picture in Sunday school. A teacher’s helper came over to see what I was coloring. He said, “That’s a nice cow, but cows aren’t purple.”
I continued coloring while I announced, “Well, this cow is!”
He went to the next kid pretty quickly. I thought he was nuts because I heard about a purple cow on “Captain Kangaroo.”
With that attitude, I must have been destined to be an artist. To all you parents and teachers who wonder what in the world the kid is thinking when he or she drew it, don’t worry about it. Let them be creative.