For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 01, 2015

Riiiight, Michael. Riiiight.

I’ve never heard that one before…

I don’t get the punchline in the throw-away gag panel.

Way to go, Mom—turn a compliment into a dig.

I hope you paid for the teacher’s meal! lol!

If asked why I drew it from my backside…I can’t draw faces.

That was amazing that Michael drew the back of his head so well, considering his eye stalks are at the opposite end and he cannot naturally see the posterior of his skull.

That came close to our experience. My children’s teacher/husband came in but not sitting next to us my kids spotted them first. We spoke briefly as they were on their own time. This was long before no smoking throughout. Turned out hubby of teacher is allergic to smoke surprised they server set them there was not long they had to leave. My children then just acted as they usually did not bothering anyone. We learned to bring entertaining games for them. Or they could color on paper.

For us on special occasions for parents depends on child what teacher spoke up if corrections need done at home for class work assignments.

My dad used the excuse that we were unruly so he never took us out to eat. He would mention this to relatives. One day his sister took us all out and she couldn’t understand why he felt that way. He was just cheap, that was the real reason.

I love that he had to think about his mother’s reasonable request?

Did anyone else notice that the picture mom is looking at is by Ramona grade 4, as in Beverly Cleary’s charicter Ramona.

My kids are all like this, to some extent. They say that a child who behaves excellently at school knows how to behave (good, because at time I’ve wondered), and also feels comfortable at home (which is an improvement over comicsssfan’s situation, at least), so they “let their hair down” a bit. Really, it’s supposed to be the ideal situation to have a child who behaves better at school than home! And I’m far more imperfect than Elly, guess I just lucked out on the kids, so far, knock wood!

MAD is a classic! Seriously though, it can either be frustration or perfectionism (or a combination of both) that parents react with negativity or sarcasm to good news. It takes the patience of a US Marine drill instructor to be a decent parent.

That’s how I would have drawn myself in 4th grade.