Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 15, 2024

Next, Calvin blames the teacher for even giving Calvin a homework assignment.

Gee Mom, don’t you realize that this is your fault?

Don’t Calvin’s parents and teachers know that homework assignments, deadlines, and the very concept of grading are stressful and hazardous to his self-esteem? Thank goodness we live in more enlightened times. (BWAHAHAHAHAHA!)

This is totally different from a recent arc on “For Better or For Worse”, where Elly did April’s pre-K project. I’m on Mom’s side here!

Order some from Acme.

Calvin’s penchant for blaming others means that, when he is older, he is qualified to be President. Or, more accurately, qualified to be elected President. Ain’t that sumthin’.

All parents pitch in for the best projects, don’t they?

He gots a point ya knows. Other parents woulda help theirs kids with that.

Try a plum, an olive, some shaved carrot peels, toothpicks, and a couple of googly eyes.

Ask Mom to make some homemade play dough. Water, flour, salt, vegetable oil, cream of tartar, and food coloring. Easy-peasy.

Don’t you have clay, Calvin?

Sounds like a pretty advanced project for a first grader. Don’t remember having homework in first grade (1956) until third grade.

Here’s the thing. Calvin’s parents don’t put up with Calvin’s unreasonableness, and they don’t give in. But nowhere do we see them recognizing that their child is a budding, pathological narcissist and actually teach him that this kind of behavior is socially unacceptable. It made for great humor and drama, and I utterly adore Watterson’s work, but this is one thing that always rubbed me the wrong way. And over the last 10 years or so of real life’s events, it has socked me in the eye even harder.

I see a future as a politician because it is always someone else’s fault.

Cut it out of paper. It doesn’t have to be 3-D.

You can make the paste for paper mache out of flour and water.

Say hello to diligency.

Umm, you don’t have flour and a news paper?

Yep….trying the old “guilt trip”!!!!

Just use Hobbes as road runner… I’m sure he would like to go to school. Maybe there are cute girls there!

Rather than a roadrunner, coyote (canine, not Mexican) and Acme™ anvil, Calvin could opt for a couple of his old model tanks and make it El Alemein 1943.

Sadly, there are adults I’ve known who have never grown out of the victim mentality. I walk away and keep a lot of distance from people like that.

Calvin may have hit the target of how “school things” work.

Calvin will work for congress someday.

She’ll take her chances.

…… and deeper and deeper.

I’ve felt the frustration in the second panel before. But then it gets funny after that.

This, coming from a kid who dug up buried garbage, assembled it into a “newly discovered dinosaur”, Calvinosaurus, and presented it in class.

Calvin’s ahead of his time with the entitlement trend.

No, it won’t, Calvin. Your mom is right.

things a 6 year old should have easy access to in any household: play-dough or some other type of clay, paper (colored construction or just regular white,) crayons or markers, glue, and scissors

Learning is way more important than grades, but very few people like that idea

Early training for a political career. Everyone else is wrong. It’s all their fault.

I’ve already commented on this thread – but bears repeating: as amusing as this thread is – SO “Calvin” – it’s a pretty vivid illustration of the entitled attitude of WAY too many Americans. Can’t speak for the rest of y’all.

I can’t tell you how many times over a 40year science teaching career, I had parents contact me about a less-than-stellar grade on the yearly science project report, experiment, and display for the science fair. These parents would eventually let it slip that they did a lot of the project and they resented the grade I gave the student. Said student could not orally defend their project very well at all and it showed that they did not do it. Sadly, The teacher was always to blame.

It’s his parents fault for not helping him achieve better study habits. And, they need to keep a better watch on him – they KNOW what he’s like!

Geez Calvin, even more cringe worthy than usual, you’re on a roll, down hill anyway ! ;-)

How can you make paper mache since we don’t have newspapers any more?

Good for you, mom, for letting Calvin take responsibility for his actions (inactions! Uh, procrastination)

But only children behave this way, right?

granted it has been a few years but I think paper-mache was newspaper strips in a flour water paste

The democrat way.

Kinda like what’s going on in D.C.

Down with the stinking establishment!

Calvin needs a guided start. ‘Someone’ sits next to him to tell him exactly what to do. After 2 or 3 steps he’ll get tired of ‘Someone’ telling him what to do and be engaged on his own journey.

Oh yean… Calvin is on his way to becomings a non-accountable Pre-Teen.

He could easily make some with some torn up newspapers and glue, or some homemade clay with flour and water. Have to wait for it to try but then he could paint it.

Not enough parents take that stand. As a kid I could always tell which parents provided extra assistance. The trick was on them, I actually remember how to build a rocket and a race car, thank you boy scouts.

Yes it is her fault Calvin was born!

Blaming parents is a lifetime privilege for the kids.

Only one week left until my birthday. The countdown begins.

oh, come on, calvin – pipe cleaners!

Seems like she could offer to help a little.