Wondermark Is Fantastic

Wondermark is always a great strip, but this one in particular struck home. I’ve been walking the fine line in my head about how much rope to give The Kid™ to (metaphorically) hang herself when it comes to getting hurt ever since she could walk, really, and I try to err on the edge of what my childhood was like. For the most part, it’s seemed to work out ok. She’s able to fall down or bump into stuff (aka: Take A Hit) without crying. The other day, she skinned her knee really good on the pavement while we were walking through a parking lot, and she didn’t even complain. She just stopped to let us know she had a new boo-boo ouchie, looked at it for a second, kissed it better and we were back to walking.

That’s not to say that she never cries when she gets hurt. Like all kids, she’ll let out a monstrous wail if she’s legit injured. But she also knows how to play the room, as it were. When it’s me or The Wife™ who is around when she scrapes herself up, she shrugs it off 9 times out of 10. If grandparents or other relatives are there, all bets are off. As long as she’s not more interested in picking herself up and rushing back to the swingset/animal/cardboard box she was playing with, we may be in for 2 – 5 minutes of screaming, crying, heartfelt sobs.

But, yeah. Wondermark. It’s one of the best webcomics in existence, and here’s one of my favorite strips in recent memory.

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