For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 11, 2024

But it takes time for them to forget. ;~)

Cute

AFTER they’re punished for the bad things, right?

But first you pay and pay and pay……..

Ohhhh, April. That one your mom won’t forget. That means she has to redo the whole room. She has to decide if she wants to keep the walls papered or strip and paint? What color? Will her furniture match the paint color? Decisions decision, stress, stress, because you decided to pick on a loose seam and pull it off. Not to mention the cost of wallpapering or painting.

Aypo’s rare moment of nobility in the very last installment of this strip (which ran some years later) still doesn’t make up for that which she not so surprisingly realizes in the final panel here.

Mothers tend to forget all the bad stuff that youngsters do and just remember the good.

The reason they do not show Elizabeth’s face after Elly says that is because Elizabeth is doubled over in laughter. Elizabeth and long time readers know that Elly forgets nothing.

Takes a while for an OMG to become a cute anecdote

“Remember”, not “notice”…

We don’t forget. We either find the humor or get philosophical about it.

Too bad not all comic strip moms aren’t like that…

What is Aypoo holding? Also, is she dry yet?

Mothers also remember the things they wish they had done better. Hopefully the kids show them the things they did right.

Wasn’t Liz a baby when they got Farley? How would she remember all the bad things he did as a puppy? It would’ve made more sense for Lynn to make this a conversation with John or Connie.

“If one of them, when he’s eight years old, accidentally sets fire to the carpet… Go easy on him.”

I had to look carefully to figure out what April had in her hand.

Unfortunately they don’t forget until after the consequences have been meted out and you are out of the house. And then, sometimes not even then when they bring it up to your new spouse or your kids.

I thought wainscoting was always done in wood – that looks like wallpaper.

My pups left a legacy never forgotten

Ellie that is only partially true. The fact of the matter is, Mothers tend to forget the bad stuff………….UNTIL the whole family is sitting around the table for Christmas Dinner. Then those stories make for lots of laughs.

Uh-oh, April, what did you do?

Pen-is-headed Farley killer!

Pen-is-headed Farley killer!

Nope, they don’t forget those things. It’s just that those things become good stories that embarrasses you later in life. “I remember the time when you did …”

At 1st I thought that blind was April’s work!

Odd that Aypo is aware that what she’s doing is “bad stuff” but is doing it anyway.

Tsk! That wallpaper is SO early 90s!

Monster kid is at it again.

Another reason why most Mum’s are solid nominees for Sainthood, methinks….

I reckon that a lot of the things that make a little ’un challenging when they are young will make them into decent adults.

And if a an adult child is silly enough to give their budding comedian Dad a microphone on their wedding day…

Only partially true- -some things are just not forgettable!

This reminded me of a story my mom told me. When I was probably three or four, I talked back to my mom and had to sit in the corner (the 1960’s version of a time out). I sat there quietly, and my mom was so glad I was contemplating what I did and learning a lesson. When she told me I could get up, she found that I’d been quiet because I was occupying myself by chipping the paint off the wall with my fingernail. Lucky for me, she was more amused than angry.

So glad to see Farley is still remembered…

Elly is so full of crap! Mothers will specifically remember the mistakes you’ve made just so they can throw them in your face after 20 OR MORE YEARS!

I thought that was wainscotting, but it must be wallpaper that looks like wainscotting!

She forgets April’s bad behavior, she forgets details about Farley’s life story—“whew” indeed!

So true Elly! We parents hang onto the good memories!

I miss Farley and April girl!