child abuse

Everyone loves a christmas padgent, right. Wrong, the parents might like it but the kids hate it with a passion that is only matched by the mutual hate that adolescent stepbrothers have for each other. All the children sitting there with the look of either bordom or sarcastic happiness always warms my heart with a feeling of nostalgia. Trust me kid i have been there. The best part about it for me is that the parent is always like "you did good son" and then the kid says, "it was group singing, how could you tell how good i did?" then the parent says "uh, you looked nice." (exit left) then the child's thought bubble is filled with thoughts summerized by ...wtf?...