For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 02, 2021

Not with your Mom.

Elizabeth, you’re a bad role model for your kid sister!

I thought we saw a comic strip a few weeks back where April was feeding herself, which is something you might expect a girl of 1 year and 3 months to be able to do. I am little surprised she has regressed to where Elly is feeding her by hand again. Maybe this is a story set a few months into the past and we are seeing a flashback.

Bad baby!

Late learner

April finally figured out how to do it. Shouldn’t she be rewarded?

Monkey see, monkey do? :D

finally teaching the kid something useful!

Spoiler Alert…… spoilers below… …… ………… …… …. Granthony and Therese’s kid, Francois, by this age was speaking in full sentences and was almost wise enough to begin offering insightful comments about adult relationships. Meanwhile, April still has to be fed by her mother…. She’s either regressed, or she has developmental issues…

Elizabeth must have removed her glasses between the first and second frame.

Lynn’s Comments:

When I was a kid, I loved to teach my younger brother to do stuff our mom would object to. For example, I got him to thump back and forth in his stroller so it was harder to push, and I showed him how to bite the bottom off his ice cream cone so the ice cream would drip through. I don’t know why I did these things. The results didn’t go well for either of us.

By George, I think she’s got it!

LJ made Liz’s legs extra long in the last panel.

Good girl. That is the proper reaction to strained carrots.

I taught Alexa how to fart.

That will get a big no from mom…..

All it took was a mouthful of food!

Big sister did not say when not to.

Apple does not need this baby for facial recognition.

You don’t have to teach them. It’s natural.

Once again, I am reminded of the second song on side one of the Ramones’ debut album…..

April still has better manners than Michael.

The baby is innovative only when mom is on the other side.

Don’t teach the baby goat to butt, don’t teach the human baby to spit, They never know the appropriate times to do either, but they always learn the trick really fast….

Rasperries

Joey Stivik’s first word (learned in the course of an argument between his mother and grandfather).

A similar unanticipated consequence: My sister and I were staying at my aunt’s house. We entertained ourselves one day by teaching her cat to attack our hands when we moved them underneath the bed covers. The cat slept with my aunt. The next morning, my aunt said, "I don’t know what’s gotten into Kitty! All night long, she kept attacking my feet every time I moved them. She never did that before! We confessed our misdeed.