Week 6 - Essay - Reading Glasses Cartoon

I find this cartoon to be very, very cute.  First of all, lets just put it out there that children will do just about ANYTHING to get out of long drawn out processes of things they do not want to do.  This list includes, but is not limited to, chores, long car rides, and anything involving schoolwork.  And although little girls are guilty of employing ingenious methods to get of doing work, I believe that little boys have created a cornerstone on the market.  They work together in groups, each little boy adding his proposed method of getting around the dirty work.  Together, these boys manage to come up with resourceful means for fooling mom and dad as well as schoolteachers.  However, there are just some things that there is just no getting around and learning how to read in grade school is one of those things.  Some children pick it up faster than others and some children enjoy reading more than others.

Now, imagine, if you will, two little boys wandering through the store with their mothers.  We all know kids find shopping painfully boring and they can find entertainment in the weirdest things.  My daughter and a friend of hers once played under an empty clothes rack at Wal-Mart for 35 minutes!! What was so entertaining???  Must have died within me when I got older.  So back to our two little boys, they come upon this display of hundreds of glasses.  I’m sure the first thing that occurs is that they begin trying them on, upside-down even, and making fun of each other and how silly they look in them.  Then, they happen to look up at the top of the display, which reads “Reading Glasses.”  The boys have an epiphany…We could have used these "magical spectacles" instead of going to that dumb class and learning to read!!!!!!! Ahhh, out of the mouths of babes.  That’s why I love children.  They are so complicated and complex and yet sometimes they just keep things simple and straightforward.  Their little minds are forming concoctions all the time, some good and some bad. 

Cartoon by Dave Coverly

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Image Web Source: EyeGlasses Cartoon