Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 26, 2014

Mom is really going to enjoy this meal.

I’d be happy to eat it if it was something close to spider pie, as in other arthropod-based dishes like lobster rolls and crab cakes.

Such amazing facial expressions!

Way to go, Mom! Sucked Cal right in, and grossed Dad out in his own game!

Mother has reached higher level of maternal wisdom.

I love the look on Dad’s face!

Score one for Mom!.

You want stewed monkey brains with that?

All that effort looking for spiders was worth it.

Peanutbutter and Lizard sandwhichs Yummy!!!

I totally just love it when Mom and/or Dad give Calvin a ‘dose of medicine’.

Reverse psychology always works on Calvin. This is also Mom dispensing payback to dad for all the misinformation he has told to Calvin over the years.

She’s still got someone not willing to eat her food.

At last. Score one for Mom.

I think Mom has learned something from Dad.

@ Orinoco womble … I’m going to have to remember that and sing it to my grandkiddies…. wish I’d known the rest of the song when my boys were growing up. I could have used the ammo, too.

Thank goodness for Wikipedia… I couldn’t learn half this stuff trying to navigate an old Library card file. I never could get the hang of Dewey Decimal’s system.

Hmm. It’s usually Dad who comes up with these bug-stories, isn’t it? Mom is changing her ways.

Did Calvin’s mom get her sarcasm from his dad, or vise-versa? Haha

Parenting as a Subversive Activity

I admit that I’d have expected their roles to be reversed. Admittedly, it was Mom who once yelled “HOBBES” out loud when he was missing.

Quiet mealtimes are rare when you have kids of 6 years old.xxx

Mom has learned a trick from Dad….

Wonder how long it will be before Calvin “catches on” to reverse psychology techniques in action….

My mom told us if we asked too much: pig s##t and green soap

On a tangent, if you asked where somebody was at my house, the smart ss reply was, "He went out to crp and the hogs ate him."

It’s surprising that Calvin didn’t know that spiders were out of season in winter so Mom must have used canned ones.