For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 08, 2018

nice try, little lady (big lady better hide the remaining cookies out of the kids’ {and husband’s} sight)

Put the carrot in carrot cake or the fruit in some pie Elly.

My kids would have had that cookie snapped out of their paw and then bunged in their rooms so fast it would make their heads spin. There were no “work arounds” in my house.

My mom raised us with a healthy “3 square” meals plan, but we occasionally got dessert first. I guess when she was a kid, she always wanted dessert before dinner, and swore that when she was a parent she would serve dessert first – she made good on that, and we still stayed healthy. A little flexibility in meals is fine.

The saying is “It’s Better to Beg for Forgiveness than to Ask for Permission”, but clearly Lizzie thinks the opposite is true.

The solution for that is to not have any cookies in the house unless you’re treating the family on a certain day!

My mother worked 2nd shift, so we would get cake for breakfast sometimes. It was FOOD and that was good enough.

What is the point of baking cookies if nobody is allowed to eat them? A cookie is not generally a bg deal.

Lynn’s Notes:

This is my daughter Katie speaking. Word for word…and I thought it was great. Over and over, kids can get the better of you–but cuteness and comedy save their bacon.

Better forget that ‘stunt’, Elizabeth, Mom has put that in the depths of ’Mom’s File of ‘stunts’ that kids pull’ and she will be waiting in ambush the next time you try it ! ! ! !

I always helped myself, and never mentioned the “cookie” word to anyone. Worked for me!

Cuteness leading to sneakiness, classic lol

Life is uncertain—have dessert first!

Ellie has just been out-negotiated.

I had two favorites for afterschool snacking: celery with cream cheese or toasted rye bread with peanut butter.

An idea for tomorrow’s strip could be Elly giving Elizabeth nothing but piles of okra, broccoli, and succotash, with prune juice to drink. Elly could say “You had the cookie, now eat all this!”