Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 27, 2023

Why parents should constantly check to make sure the kids are doing their homework.

Shouldn’t take more than four or five hours…..

He should’ve started when he had the big head.

Well he got himself ready to ACTUALLY do his homework. That’s progress.

The look on Mom’s face in that final panel!

Mom might wish to consider sitting down with Calving when he’s supposed to be doing his homework.

Starting is half the job…

Calvin could make an audio tape. That should be done fairly quickly.

I never did any homework. Just didn’t know there was any to do. Had one teacher call me up to recite a poem. Think I might have recited what ever I knew and that didn’t apparently include the poem in question. That teacher never bothered me again.

This is why you have to be financially, emotionally, mentally, and physically ready if you want to have a child.

When I was a kid my mother always asked us when we came home if we had any homework and made us do it right away. I did have a show I watched at 4:00 every day, but at 4:30 I was on the homework until dinner time.

Like the meteor landing. Now the fallout…….

It’s just a minor technical detail, Mom… :D

All he lacks is finishing up

And why weren’t you writing? Oh, wait… Was it because you’ve wasted the entire week making another one of your imaginary get-out-of-school gizmos?!

Writing? Simple. It’ll just take a minute . . . or two

This is just bad parenting.

It’s probably good that Calvin isn’t planning any research or anything.

He’s got the paper, so that’s a start

This is where Calvin is hoping Mom will say… “Come on… let me help you.” LOL…

i wish Bill watterson had made more

Been there (where Mom’s standing) heard that

Take another nerve pill.

Or playing sick and writing it when he’s home tomorrow.

Let him finish, he’s the one that will be complaining when you get him up for school

My boys had to do some courses via The Correspondence School – all by mail. The threat of the mail deadline, plus the positive communication from the teacher they never met, worked wonders. I never had to nag them to do the work!

Grade One “paper”: three sentences—introduction, research, conclusion— at the most, and a large picture that takes up half a regular page. There done!

In Calvin’s case: picture takes up three quarters of a page. Three one word sentences with a lot of exclamations at the end. There done.

*Calvin. no g

Wasn’t the paper practically writing itself?

calvin is a lazy good for nothing jerk! i hate this strip and if you like it you are a probably a lazy good for nothing too!

As poor as Calvin’s study habits are, I expect Hobbes will move on to the next grade before Calvin.

Time for bed, yes. That’s what she said.

Nah, don’t sweat the small stuff…

“I just have to write it” makes a lot of sense based on Calvin’s prewriting process.

How old is Calvin? I assume pretty young if he is playing with a stuffed animal. Are papers required in kindergarten or grade school these days?