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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, June 29, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Teen immersed in electronics is losing touch with people FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’ve been dating a As to removing the television/gaming wonderful woman for two years. She from his bedroom, his mother should has a son in high school I’ll call “Jon.” warn him in advance that it will Like many teens I see, he is constantly happen if his grades don’t improve. on his smartphone, his school-re- Interacting with others doesn’t quired tablet or playing video games come naturally to everyone. Devel- on the TV in his bedroom. oping these skills takes practice. On a recent vacation, I decided Learning to make eye contact, carry enough was enough. Jon had head- on a conversation and pick up on Jeanne phones on and was watching videos Phillips social cues are skills people learn online while we were at a restaurant. in person, not by texting. This is a Advice His mother was on her cellphone as I conversation I have had with more sat there wondering how long I’d wait. than one mental health expert, and it’s Jon’s grades have dropped and he doesn’t something parents need to remember when sleep well. I can see he is so connected to interacting with their children. his electronics that he’s disconnected from Dear Abby: My husband wants to help in people. the kitchen with the dishes. Call me stupid to While I don’t want to seem controlling, I complain, but he is causing me more work, now feel I have a vested interest in the boy. and I don’t know what to do. I care about him and see that the constant This is the second marriage for both of us, stimulation is affecting much of his life. I’m and I am trying hard to be a kinder, gentler not sure he even knows how to make friends. wife. When my husband washes the dishes, Should I push for his TV to be taken out of pots and pans, he misses spots, sometimes his room? His mother is excellent at setting lots of them. Also, he is impatient and doesn’t her own boundaries, but because of her want to wait the three minutes it takes for the divorce, I think she’s reluctant to set bound- hot water to get to the kitchen, so he washes aries for him. — Needs Help In Chicago in cold water. Dear Needs Help: If you haven’t I tell him I will take care of the dishes, but discussed your concerns with Jon’s mother, then he gets upset with me. How do I handle you should, because they are valid. If his this without hurting his feelings or his pride? grades are suffering and he isn’t getting — Kinder, Gentler Wife enough rest, it’s time for her to step up to the Dear K.G.W.: Sometimes it’s not what plate and start acting like a parent. we say but how we say it that can hurt some- When the three of you are having a meal one’s feelings or pride. Tell your husband together, the electronics should be put away, that you love him and know he wants to do and you and your girlfriend should make a this for you, but, respectfully, his “talents” point of including her son in the conversa- lie elsewhere. Because he is willing to help, tion. At his age, he should be informed about entrust him to the important task of doing the and have an opinion regarding current events. rinsing and/or drying. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 29, 1917 A young man who wanted to serve his country and who was rejected as a naval recruit because he had flat feet yesterday demonstrated that he is something of an athlete, anyway, when he captured most of the events at the annual Freewater Cherry Day festival. He is H.R. Jones, who is working on the construction gang of the O.-W. R. & N. at the big trestles near Weston. He attended Freewater’s festival and entered the races as a darkhorse. He ran away from the Freewater and Milton sprinters in the free for all 100 yard dash and took first in the standing broad jump and in the running half hammin jump. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 29, 1967 A seven-year-old Meacham girl was thrown from one car and run over by another on Highway 30 Tuesday afternoon east of Pendleton. Billie Jean Randol was hospital- ized at St. Anthony Hospital with lacerations, abrasions and bruises, but no broken bones. The girl was a passenger in a car driven by Alton Alvin Sharp, 44, of Meacham that was towing another car using a length of logging chain. Billie Jean’s mother, Mildred J. Randol, 27, was steering the towed vehicle. The towed vehicle started to whip, causing Sharp to lose control and both autos went off an embankment on the south side of Highway 30 near the truck weighing station. Billie Jean was thrown from the Sharp auto and run over by the vehicle her mother was steering. Sharp was cited for driving with suspended operator’s license. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 29, 1992 A lightning-quick storm Sunday evening produced winds of nearly 60 mph, creating a dust cloud and heavy rains that caused three major freeway accidents and sent seven people to Good Shepherd Commu- nity Hospital in Hermiston. The intense 20-minute storm was the punctuation mark on a weekend of weird weather that produced some 50 fires in the Umatilla National Forest, dozens of grass fires throughout the region and a flash flood near Lexington in Morrow County. THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 180th day of 2017. There are 185 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 29, 1767, Britain approved the Townshend Revenue Act, which imposed import duties on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper and tea shipped to the American colonies. (Colonists bitterly protested, prompting Parlia- ment to repeal the duties — except for tea.) On this date: In 1613, London’s original Globe Theatre, where many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed, was destroyed by a fire sparked by a cannon shot during a performance of “Henry VIII.” In 1880, France annexed Tahiti, which became a French colony on December 30, 1880. In 1927, the first trans-Pacific airplane flight was completed as Lt. Lester J. Maitland and Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger arrived at Wheeler Field in Hawaii aboard the Bird of Paradise, an Atlantic-Fokker C-2, after flying 2,400 miles from Oakland, California, in 25 hours, 50 minutes. In 1936, entertainer and songwriter George M. Cohan was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for his contribu- tions to building American morale during World War I. In 1941, Polish statesman, pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski died in New York at age 80. In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a trio of death sentences, saying the way they had been imposed constituted cruel and unusual punishment. (The ruling prompted states to effectively impose a moratorium on executions until their capital punishment laws could be revised.) In 1995, the space shuttle Atlantis and the Russian Mir space station linked in orbit, beginning a historic five-day voyage as a single ship. Today’s Birthdays: Movie producer Robert Evans is 87. Songwriter L. Russell Brown is 77. Singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys is 74. Actor Gary Busey is 73. Comedian Richard Lewis is 70. Actor- turned-politican-turned-radio personality Fred Grandy is 69. Rock musician Ian Paice (Deep Purple) is 69. Singer Don Dokken (Dokken) is 64. Rock singer Colin Hay (Men At Work) is 64. Actress Maria Conchita Alonso is 62. Actress Sharon Lawrence is 56. Actress Amanda Donohoe is 55. Actress Judith Hoag is 54. Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter is 54. Actress Kath- leen Wilhoite is 53. Produc- er-writer Matthew Weiner is 52. Rap DJ Shadow is 45. Thought for Today: “I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.” — Katharine Hepburn (1907- 2003). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
