For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 31, 2022

kids misunderstand the darndest things

Drop a yod. Get a joke.

Love the Charles M. Schulz nod with January Snoopy

This reminds me of the Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels, (of which I’m a big fan,) with the way it purportedly takes place in the present day but still is clearly based in the past. BSC comics feature smartphones, but nobody uses social media and the Internet doesn’t feature very much (or, as far as I can recall, a bit).

Happy and healthy new year to you all!

Awwwwwwwww,how cute

Umm… you’re one letter short, kid.

I could use some new ears, but I have a feeling that all the shooting will probably just make my “New Year’s” ears ring.

As do cartoonists!

I was 5 years old riding my bike and a neighbor dog ran out and bit me above my ankle. My parents called police. The officer said well we would know if he has rabies because he will be dead in 3 days. I started crying hysterically, my mother said what’s wrong, I said…..I don’t want to die in 3 days.. The officer felt so bad and explained to me he meant the dog will die.Years later my father told me about the rabies shots I would have had to receive if that dog died…

So, I thought this strip was reruns only, and had been for years. Can someone explain how it has the current year in the dialog?

This raises a question. (I don’t have any children.) So how would you explain to a 2 and nine month old child what a new year means? Like how many of you understood the concept that a year makes up 365 days, and then you start counting a year all over again, when you were just under 3 years old? Did you even realize on your 2nd birthday that 2 years have gone by?

Who nose maybe you’ll like them.

I wouldn’t mind a pair of new ears….

Kids take most everything literally, even when the words are misunderstood.

Children hear things in the most unusual ways…

The nod to Sparky here in the 1st panel is extremely coo! Good job Lynn! Made me smile and feel good!

As I’ve been saying for a very long time now: PRESENT DAY.

Took decades before I realized that my brother was bombed, not that he had a bomb. 10 year old frame of reference!

Love it that they have a Peanuts calendar.

All that hair over ears, no wonder…

H U H ?

Maybe your new ears will be better at hearing the Y sound.

Reminds me of OBH Ruthie.

When I was a kid we’d watch TV with Rabbit Ears. HAHA

Actually, April is to be commended for having such a positive image of herself at such a young age. Hopefully when she is a full-grown woman she will also say “No want new hair”; “No want new boobs” and “No want new nose”.

2023. Yeah, right.

When I was little, when it was New Years 1979-to 1980 I remember asking what comes after 1979? nineteen-seventy-ten? everyone laughed.