Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 28, 2013

Should be forced to sing the same songs every day of……

dad nailed it!

Abuzz isn’t the word, aghast perhaps.

Aww. Calvin can be so cute sometimes.

Luv Calvin from Dha Dha der….

Send him to bed,Dad looks too tired .

I’ve heard of a slumlord sentenced to a choice of jail or living at the property in question. He chose jail.

Thanks to all for feedback yesterday.The votes are in, and the yeas have it:Belching is a sport.I won’t be crass and ask about farting.Besides, my late Father was the all-time champion.

I’ve always loved that title, “Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie.” Kinda makes me wish Watterson had written a book with that title under a nom de plume (to protect his literary integrity, of course!). Now I wish he’d write the sequel.

Many parents grew to dislike Dr. Seuss.

Back when I was a kid we had Enid Blyton books with characters named Dick and Fanny :/

Calvin wants to read? Dad should be all over this. The first books we read to my children were repetitive and ugh, but by the time they were in first grade we were reading stories and had a great time with that. I’d do all the character voices and we’d end up giggling a lot. I miss that.

I love the author’s name, “Mabel Syrup.”

Oh, you are a happy one! I shall memorize the text of a song and I an’t remember it, perhaps I must lern it for seven years, perhaps this will help!

It’s when the embellishments become part of the story that it gets a little strange. We had one story that had a line, “….and down the road he went”. One night due to where we lived at the time I added “and down the road” 5 times. There after that had to be said that many times. He still remembers the story and how we said “down the road”.

Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie

http://www.hamsterhueypress.com/

Start out with reading repetitive books for tots but keep adding more books. During my son’s first year we accumulated a small collection of books to read each night. By age 2 HE was able to read any of them himself. At his first pre-school he was reading to the other 2 and 3 year olds. (Verbal embelishments add amusement but sticking to the text teaches reading).

Syrup. Now, it’s time for pancakes

well I learned never try to read Dr. Seuss out-loud before noon if you are an adult – you could hurt yourself doing that

And casino video poker manufacturers should have to play their games every day of eternity. I’ve said that for years now. I know, just quit playing!

Anyone remember Jimmy Hatlo’s “Hatlos Inferno” where he’s forced to read his own panels for 1000 years?By the way, this would make a good classic rerun.(He was most remembered for They’ll Do It Every Time and Little Iodine)

A slumlord sentenced to live in one of his properties?In this area we need a similar law for multi-thousand hog confinement operations – ie owner must live in house nearest it!

Aw, come on, Dad…tedium builds CHARACTER!!!!

It’s wonderful to see Calvin so excited about a book! Take him right out to the store and buy it, Dad! Encourage reading!If Calvin can’t read it himself (I never go the idea he was a poor student, he is actually quite smart) then read it to him as many times as he wants. That’s how we help create eager readers. And boys need all the help they can get, even will silly books. (Just look at Captain Underpants!)

It’s good that Dad finally has his own monologue in the last panel.

LOL xxx

Whaddya bet ‘she’ wears pancake makeup.

Amen Dad. Well said.

Stop complaining! The kid just asked for a BOOK!!!

Dad should have added that pop artists should have to listen to the songs they write 24 hours a day. That would make it a neat application of the rule of three.

Life lessons from Calvin and Hobbes :) http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexreichert/15-life-lessons-from-calvin-and-hobbes-axb5

That first panel sounds like Calvin not only reads—he reads The New York Times Children’s Book Review!

" Luckily, I don’t even need the book anymore. :D"

Bet the child doesn’t either! lol!

My mother swore I could recite verbatim all the stories she read to me.

I skipped most of the kids’ materials when my daughter was small. I read poetry to her from the beginning – Kipling, Tennyson, Keats, Dickinson, .. I had my old school textbooks, and why not use them? By the time I had worked through Carroll and a few others, she was reading Dr. Seuss, and by the time she was seven she was reading adult fiction. No, not Xrated fiction, but full length un-illustrated novels.

Keep reading! No need for dumbed down materials, classics work fine :-)

Catchy, although I still greatly prefer the original title.

“Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie” makes me laugh every time I hear it.

Lol, “Mabel Syrup”