For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 09, 2023

The rational of a toddler.

Shouldn’t somebody be watching her? This will cause problems in the future

Someone left the adult scissors out and that same someone forgot that April has the hand strength and coordination to make those adult scissors go “Snip. Snip” with just one hand. Once again, April is extremely impressive for a 3-year-old.

Aypo’s gonna give herself a haircut

“Aypo be successful criminal defense lawyer someday.”

uh oh. .. . disaster about to strike.

Interesting how the toddler can’t pronounce the letters ‘i’ and ‘r’ in the name April, but she has no difficulty pronouncing the same letters in the harder word ‘scissors’.

Isn’t “Aypo” supposed to be in day-care??

In any case, this is another example of Elly’s lack of supervision of her youngest.

April unsupervised yet again. Shocking.

Unsupervised toddler and scissors are always a disaster waiting to happen.

Luckily I read the comic digital because the paper could be cut to pieces.

I see a bad moon rising.

This is not going to end well.

They’re actually a pair of magical chameleon scissors. The handles change color at random…. Either that, or the colorist didn’t follow through from yesterday…

Kid logic.

Here we go. I never had much use for kids scissors. They didn’t cut worth a darn but teachers and others kept giving me assignments or tests that require precision cutting and grading me so-so when the cuts were crappy.

Children can move faster than adults can think. I was sitting at the desk, filling my fountain pen while my daughter watched. In the five seconds it took me to wipe the ink off the nib and replace the top of the pen, Tina picked up the bottle and drank the ink.

Uh oh!!! You remind me of a girl name Danae…

Wow, I’m surprised they would leave “Aypo” unsupervised with something so dangerous lying around. Usually they keep a much closer eye on her.

Aypo then change name to Machiavelli

Let’s see, what shall it be.

An emergency hair cut when April does some barbering on her own hair?

New drapes for the living room, when April decides to trim the drapes that are there now?

Farley goes to the groomer to even out the coat that April trims for him?

Tune in tomorrow to find out the answer:

Aypo is old enough to know and use the words “I” and “me.” And probably the world “April.”

Uh oh Aypo!

People, especially toddlers, don’t refer to themselves in 3rd person unless they practice affectation. “I” and “me” are the first concepts they learn.

This looks like a scene from horror movie.

I have a bad feeling about this.

April got the brat gene, from both sides.

oh, won’t this be fun

There are FOUR people in the house! How is NO ONE is watching her?!