Ask Amy: Granddad is tired of constant video calls
– Alienated Dad
Dear Alienated: You should send your child a warmly written letter, congratulating them on the engagement and sincerely wishing the couple much happiness. Don’t overload it with history. Sign off, with, “I hope you have a wonderful wedding celebration with much joy. I’ll be thinking about you both.”
And then go on that vacation.
Dear Amy: I am quite disgusted by the first line of your recent response to “Wondering Parents,” who were being urged by in-laws to raise their child according to a Christian parenting YouTube channel.
Your line reads: “ Jesus might have walked on water, but he never had to try to guide a toddler through the grocery store.”
I don’t know why you think it is appropriate to make fun of other people’s religion, and I would like to know why you wrote that offensive line.
– Disgusted
Dear Disgusted: I wrote that line because it’s funny.
I’m not making fun of “other people’s” religion, because it is my religion, too.
And if you don’t think that our higher power has a sense of humor, I suggest you take a good long look around.
Humanity is oftentimes hilarious.
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