Recursive anger is recursive
-EDIT- Re-uploaded to fix some art mistakes. I’m very sprry that happened.
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
Recursive anger is recursive
-EDIT- Re-uploaded to fix some art mistakes. I’m very sprry that happened.
Thank you Grandma, for intervening. Good on both you girls.
Also Dave, grandma’s hand and Selkie’s teeth in panel 2 are the wrong color.
This is the sprry state of affairs rushing gives you. >_>
I guess it IS rushing season, although there aren’t any fraternities I’D like to join in my area.
Well done Gramma.
While it is really good to see Amanda managing her anger, she also needs to learn that there’s nothing wrong with it. If you are mistreated, get angry! Anger, directed constructively, is very powerful and very positive. Protest movements are built of anger at injustice.
I worry that the lesson she is learning is to always manage your anger, control it, even bury it. And let it go even when that might be unhealthy, because some things are worth getting mad about. That would not just as unhealthy as being angry all the time.
While I admire the adults stepping in and fixing the various bullying situations, this is just a little forced. People should be able to have a discussion and work things out without someone constantly hovering over their shoulder and going “now now, don’t be rude”. I’d feel so stifled.
They’re nine/eight. It would be poor parenting to just leave them to their own whims and would never get fixed. They weren’t staying “Hey, you better accept that apology!” it’s more “Think about what just happened for a moment, and don’t you think it would be better to be kind?”. Sure, kids this age are smart, but they are still learning. And it’s their guardians’ job to show them the way.
I’ve heard this before and just I don’t get it. We teach kids math and reading while sitting next to them, walking them through it over and over until they get a handle on how to do it themselves. We coach them at sports, help them practice musical instruments, and dozens of other skills. But social skills, arguably the most important thing they’ll ever learn, we should just leave them to figure out by themselves? Especially two kids with as volotile a past as Amanda and Selkie?
That last panel was priceless. I’m sure it has been said in many different ways by countless people, but I think yours was unique and a contribution to consciousness. Thank you.
Points for Amanda, she’s reaching levels I didn’t think she was going to achieve.