Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 22, 2018

Don’t tip her.

As a matter of fact, she was listening to every word you said.

LOL

no one likes a picky eater, King Calvin

Wait until he is old enough to order a martini shaken not stirred.

Eat it or go hungry!

That’s not how you treat royalty.

Eat it or wear it, it’s not going back into the jar.

Sorry Calvin. I guess your mom doesn’t speak bratty kid.

Mom’s popularity rating just plummeted.

Calvin must have X-RAY vision concerning the type of peanut butter & the addition of jelly.

“I want” doesn’t get….

In the words of my mother, “I heard you, I just don’t care.”

There are Calvins everywhere these days – I see more and more kids… little AND big… demanding like this and getting away with it – their parents are afraid of their kids today.

Reading these comics is the best birth control for me! Lol! :))

Calvin isn’t a majesty. He is a fool.

Well, Calvin can certainly be a royal pain in the a$$!

Years ago I new a little kid that needed consistent FIRM parenting. The mother DID try, but admitted she was not as consistent as she should be. I always figured he was just a ways away from a jail sentence. He’s a bit older now and a bit calmer. We’ll see if he makes it thru high school.

Learn ‘Calvin’, the best way NOT to get what you want is to DEMAND it—ASK for it nicely and then SHUT UP ! ! ! !

We had it easy growing up, there were two choices; eat it or go hungry. We were allowed to honestly not like a food, because my Mom grew up on a working farm and had to eat scrapple for breakfast, after butchering time, for as long as the pan lasted. But we better eat everything else without sniveling, whining, complaining or “making a mug (face)”, or we would go hungry.

Calvin = Original Snowflake?

Stop blaming the kids. It takes a lot of non-parenting to get kids to the level that they’re at.

My mother’s menu was…1. Take it…2. Leave it ! ;o]

I remember the exact day that my son started wanting his PBJ cut diagonally and not horizontally, not even vertically. He was 3 years old and I was trying to get him to eat a PBJ for the first time. Any one with a 3 year old knows what happened next. Yep! The old I don’t like it. Never had tasted a PBJ, never seen one, didn’t like it. I tried the old, “see, I like it”, the old, “mommy likes it”, the old “eat it before I get mad”. Nothing. And, then I tried cutting it diagonally. Boom! He suddenly wanted a bite. From that moment on, my son only wanted his sandwiches one way, cut diagonally. Who’s to blame? Me! I wanted him to try a PBJ. So, don’t blame the child for what the parent started.

I think mom was listening

My brother didn’t like cooked carrots. Spinach was not a favorite of mine. But it was a bit of a game at supper – I’d eat his carrots, he would eat my spinach. Our parents allowed us to play our little game, while trying to convince us (unsuccessfully) that both tasted good. We both grew up – he still dislikes cooked carrots (will eat them raw) but I like spinach now.

I like Hobbes. He was raised as a gentleman.

“Yes, I was listening. Now shut up and eat your sandwich.”

Our society is in a sad state – Parents always rescuing kids and blaming teachers :(

If you want it done “right”, do it yourself.

My kid would have gotten"the kit".

Me, too. Try that today and Big Brother will be knocking on your door.

All that shouting is enough to make anyone deaf.

No compliments to the chef.

“Oh, I was listening, alright…”

Uh oh… she didn’t remove the crusts.

Yes, Calvin, she was listening. Sometimes you have to take what you get.

The Mom must have been trolling Calvin with that sandwich…

My Mom woulda done a Jimmy Cagney grapefruit-half move to my face with the sandwich..

She was listening, all right. :-D

Bravo, lady!!!!!

You Highness (emphasis on the last syllable)!

When I was Calvin’s age, I was making my own PBs.

Calvin of course your Mom was listening to how rudely you demanded how you wanted your sandwich made without one single please. How else do you think she knew how to make it exactly the total opposite of what you asked for.

Perhaps if you would have said “Please?”

Yes, yes she was.

This is a dang comic. Chill people.

You guys are all about 65 or so, right? Wasn’t that the “me” generation? The mindless, TV generation? The longhaired, good-for-nothing kids who thought world revolved their g-g-g-generation? With their loud, obnoxious rock and roll, and drugs, and smokin’ in the boys room? Yeah. Look how you all turned out.

Seems like she went to a lot of trouble not to give him what he wanted…..how hard is it to skip the second slice of bread, skip the jelly, and make it a teachable moment by teaching him how to ask for something he wants in a better tone.

Calvin is right about 2 things. sandwiches cut in triangles taste a lot better than squares. And peanut butter should always be crunchy, never smooth.

You would think Mom would get fed up, hand him the bread and the peanut butter, and tell him to make it himself.

No weird bread.