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Letter 2/Dear Skipper: Where in the World Is Your Pause Button?

Alice Garbarini Hurley

Oct 4, 2020·3 min read

How can you go from a winning soccer game and dinner in the kitchen nook to such crazy behavior?

Dennis the Menace with Alice, his mom. Dennis is 5 1/2; his mom is 30, tops. But you, Skip, are 13 — and this old Alice is 59. I ‘m not your mom (we couldn’t legally adopt you), but I definitely mother you. I hope one day you see that. Cartoonist: Hank Ketcham. Image found HERE.

Dear Skipper,

It’s 9:31 p.m. on Saturday night.

I’m upset, disgusted, discouraged.

You have problems with impulse control. You have ADHD. But your behavior is sometimes REALLY hard to…