Attribution: Popular Graphic Arts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to give the keeper and Phyllis any meaningful assistance with keeping their great grandchildren in an orderly file in their obviously overloaded mental storage systems. One of the differences between grandchildren and great grandchildren is often proximity. …
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Category:Parenting
Kickass Says Something Nice
See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to stay out of the way as the keeper sorts through the childhood advice that he has tried to live by, and hereby eliminates the following: “If you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all.” Most …
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Kickass and Father’s Day
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting that there are a number of ways to become a father, points out that heroics are not usually involved. The heroics come later in keeping wayward offspring well fed, secure, clothed and out of trouble with the law. During the time the keeper was …
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Kickass and Parenting
Afshin10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper acknowledges that while the rules for parenting are so simple that creatures on the lowest rungs follow them successfully by rearing generations of species replacements; complications can set in with parenting when cars and guns saturate the procreating …
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