For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 29, 2021

ever the overprotective, concerning parent Mrs. Richards it to her (adult) children

After telling mom They may consider changing their mind.

Hopefully it is the suspension bridge at Lynn Canyon Park, not the tourist magnet at Capilano. The chairlift is probably at Grouse Mountain. Great places… Stanley Park…They didn’t mention Granville Island, which is another one of my favorites.

It’s like they had never left home.

Today’s comic strip is brought to you by the North Vancouver Tourism Board.

Phil and Elly begin to see how their mother is changing; as she doesn’t seem to realize that they aren’t kids living in her home anymore…

Wow, all that will be more than a few hours, especially with a walk around Stanley Park, a jaunt over to North Van to the top of Grouse mtn probably, and then what sounds like a trip out to Aldergrove for the zoo.

I wonder if Mom is being a wee bit ironic.

Just stay out of East Hastings and Main Street.

I do hope the the modern day realities will live up to their memories. So often the memories are far, far better than the reality of 20 or 30 years later.

Lived in Vancouver so many years & now moved to the (very smoky) BC interior. Feeling a bit nostalgic.

Mom is helping them to remember a scene from their childhood.

A few scenes, not all of them.

With such an agenda they both need another week in Vancouver.

Once a mother, always a mother.

Two things: One, don’t swing on that suspension bridge! It was built in the 19th century. And the other: Another red flag in the final panel in what can become one of life’s biggest nightmares. And sadly almost invariably inevitable.

The old folks say that ya gotta end your date by ten;

If you’re out on a date and you bring it home late, it’s a sin.

Lynn’s Comments:

Talking about favourite places in and around Vancouver was a lot of fun. I’d been told by editors that I shouldn’t be “too Canadian” because the majority of my readers were American. Still, I went ahead because this is what I know! The result was a series of letters from readers talking about where they had been in BC and what they liked best about the scenery, the coast and the culture.

You will always be your parents’ children.

My 40 yo son was just home for the first time in five years. I swear to god, he borrowed my car so he could go out to the movies with his friends. So to get even, I told him to drive careful and don’t stay out late.

My grown children always have some snide comment when they are leaving and I say “be careful, call when you get there”. I reply that it is in the parent handbook I got when they were born.

Your parents are always your parents. Like it or not.

I bet that’s what they would have heard even if she HADN’T said it.

She’s over using the “Dear” thing. You know I hate the “Dear” thing….

We never grow up in our parents’ eyes.

My mom was still like that when I was in my thirties, and I hated her acting like I was still a little kid. But she was gone before I turned forty, and I’ve been missing it ever since.

Wow they had a lot more to do in their hometown than I did growing up in Iowa.

My mother still tells me to wash my hands when I come into her house. “You’ve been all over the subway.”

Mothers will ALWAYS worry about their children

And they wanted to re-live their childhood memories.

Once a mother always a mother. They are still our children and we continue to worry about them even adulthood! ;)

parents will always be parents, especially when they become grandparents…

When my son leaves to go anywhere I always say, “Drive carefully.” Heck, I have even said that to the pizza delivery person, the UPS driver, etc.

Ironic that in earlier times, you were expected to grow up as soon as possible. Kids were put to work doing chores on the farm as soon as they developed motor skills.

Another example of parental hypocrisy. Hearing “It is time to grow up and start fighting your own battles” then hearing “You’ll always be my baby”. Which is it? You can’t have it both ways.

thats cute <3

That would have been funny for Elly to thinks of her kids always as babies, then suddenly her pants get pulled down by her mother.

Elly: MOM! What the hell are you doing?

Marian: It is time for me to change your diaper, Baby Elly!

There is a scene from their childhood!

YES, MOM!

Living in Vancouver it’s cool to see the places being named in a comic!

Hey man. They are brother and sister.

Talking down to adult children. Surefire sign of dementia.

Worrying: the heroin of mothers.