For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 02, 2013

This is why parents always do the Happy Snoopy Dance during the final days before school starts!

Guess she had ‘nothing’ else to draw!

Bad move, Mike! Never tell your mom or your sergeant you don’t have anything to do.

Dude, you seriously need to get a life!

My boys would look at each other, and one would say to the other, “I’m bored, let’s fight!!”

I love how the bunny has a look of wide-eyed alarm.

Wrong thing to say kiddo.

Yeah? Well, Michael, there’s always schoooool tomorrow.

I can definitely see my youngest son in Michael, he’s constantly annoying his sisters for no reason. Luckily I can send him to his father on weekends and for the entire summer.

Took the 13- and 7-year old girls to a Chinese buffet today. I told older not to bother her sister, so 13 said, “Bother, bother, bother,” and started poking her. 7 poked back, and it escalated. When we got to the booth, I said, stop tormenting each other, or I’ll make you sit catacornered from each other.

So 7 said, “But we want to go, ‘Bother, bother, bother!’”

No, I didn’t draw and quarter them. We need to pick our battles. They were fine after they got some food in them.

Also — sad ’cause makes me think of bored teens who beat up (and kill) other people, because they have nothing to do.

Seriously though, I wonder if Lynn enjoyed drawing the kids fighting or if she had actual serious issues with her kids. The roughhousing I did with my brother was nowhere near the level of violence Michael and Elizabeth have inflicted on each other.