Watch Out, Your Life Is No Longer Your Own!

Categories: Local Interest , Staff Picks , Nonfiction

Who are are all these great big people in my house, and where did my cute little toddlers go? 

I have a few questions for parents everywhere: Which is more stressful, potty training or teaching your child to drive? Or, would you rather feed strained peas to a baby or a crisp fresh salad to a 13-year-old? Or how about watching your 1-year-old take his first steps toward you, then realizing, as you watch your 18-year-old walk away, that those first steps just weren't that long ago?

Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott have uncanny insight into parenting a teenager and an incredible talent for putting it onto paper. They co-author Zits, a daily comic strip about family life with a teenaged son. There are several collections available in book form.

We are expecting a new Zits sketchbook soon, Are We Out of the Driveway Yet? In the meantime, there are other Zits books in our collection with fabulous titles such as Pimp My Lunch and Growth Spurt.

Where did my toddlers go? The bigger mystery right now is, with all these teenagers around, where did all the food go?

Jim Borgman is also a reknown editorial cartoonist on the staff of The Cincinnati Enquirer, and has won the Pulitzer Prize for his work.

Jerry Scott also co-authors Baby Blues, a comic strip that chronicles daily life with new babies and small children. The observations and situations are dead on. This, along with the strikingly truthful For Better Or For Worse, was the subject of an earlier Turning the Page blog by Teresa.