Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 05, 2020

It depends on how you use the books.

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/qO2eClM

Think twice before sending him to a psychologist.

I love how Hobbes is stretched over two panels.

can’t cope with kid who has a homicidal psycho jungle cat as a best friend

A football helmet? Don’t worry Mom, when Calvin becomes an NFL player you won’t be disappointed at all

Hobbes didn’t bother to read those books on child psychology.

I’m sure the author’s didn’t think so.

When I was a kid, you couldn’t get abnormal psychology books without a license or at least a prescription. Now that the internet sees to it that nobody knows you’re a dog, you can probably buy anything at all…

Calvin wrote the book.

Watterson must be a big fan of the Pink Panther. The Kato scenes are so memorable.

Loving Calvin’s expression in the middle panel….

The football helmet may work…don’t know about the pillows, though…

Celebrate his imagination…Calvin is a genius…gets into trouble cuz he’s bored.

Should have paid extra for the “Seriously Disturbed” edition.

When your kid has a tiger for a best friend, child psychology sort of falls short. You need real psychiatry. Not for the kid, he’s okay, You’ll need the help.

The books should have been child psychiatry titles.

Yes, they were. Maybe if you and dad would engage with the kid he’d not feel the need to carry on like that with a stuffed toy.

How can he even walk with those pillows tied to him?

Try telling that to the tiger, Mom…

I don’t blame Calvin one bit. The grin on Hobbes is total psycho tiger.

The kind of child psychology books that would have been available to Calvin’s mom were mostly filled with sweeping generalities about what the authors thought was normal. We love Calvin because he can’t even imagine conforming to such nonsense. No wonder the books are useless!

You could use the books to paddle him once in a while.

Brings back memories. I did the whole pillow-around-the-waist thing to help protect from the neighborhood bully who liked to punch people in the gut. In retrospect, his father must’ve beat the stuffing out of him to cause so much pent up hostility!

Those books came too late, should have paid attention during those sex classes and how to prevent pregnancies.

Children are not hard to understand, they are hard to properly raise.

They usually are….

Return them and ask for your money back…..

I’m very sorry. I have bad news for you. After a thorough study of Calvin, it has been determined that your application of the child psychology book you bought is the cause of Calvin’s behavioral problems.

Maybe if at least one of the parents spent some time with him, he’d be a little more chill.

Invest a little in tiger psychology.

“We seem to be out of gunpowder.”

He’s got to be some sort of genius-mad or regular or something else.

There’s no psychology that ever describe Calvin.

trying to do what those psychology books said is why we are in the culture we are IMO- if you like that culture wonderful – if you don’t like whiners, controllers, snowflakes, me first, participation, politically correct, do what I say not what I do, etc, etc, etc, – not so much. Had to read a few as a psych minor, figured the only reason they were written is that someone could make money from them. js

he more likely headed to a mental institution.

I wonder how many psych papers have been written on Calvin and Hobbes?

Calvins face in the Third panel XD

Calvin wore that exact ensemble when he wanted to shoot himself out of a cannon.

Bingo. Try psychotic disorders.