Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 23, 2010

Amen, dad!

well said dad..

Of course one never knows how to take care of EVERYTHING. It cannot be done. The point of reaching adulthood is to know precisely that and to know you still have to take decisions. You cannot put it onto others.

Margueritem………………….MAGNIFICENT lily!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These parents are really cool…!!!

No, Dad, that’s what happens when God makes you as He is.

Stick around.

Thanks, ML!

As a grand-dad, still flyin’ by the seat of my pants…

I have no real control over the present or the future but I know the one who has and in Him I find real peace.

But you should have figured it out before Calvin was six years old!

Amen, Yukoner!

My kids are in their 30’s & there is so much I should have figured out, but didn’t. That was with almost constant prayer. Now I pray that our kids will be better parents than we were.

there’s quite a lesson here- live for the moment, don’t try to rush or slow down time, because you won’t affect time, you just have to go with it

Start by cutting out the whining and take charge of protecting your family! Geez!

What happened? Mom and Dad changed places? Two days ago, Mom was on the left side, now she’s on the right side of the bed…

I bet good ol’ Hobbes scared the burglar away.

Thats why you learn Kung-fu! Let Calvin take some lessons atleast Dad.. :-) ..

You speak volumes Yukoner, well said.

I completely missed mom and dad changing places! The change seems to have happened yesterday. In the first panel mom’s head can be seen on the right but in the last panel it seems like dad is on the right.

Unfortunately being the head of the house doesn’t make you exempt from feeling violated when your home is broken into. In fact it can make you feel more so simply because you feel it’s your job to ensure that sort of thing doesn’t happen but since it did you feel you failed in some way. Dad’s feelings are quite justifiable. I’m hoping this thread continues until the burglars are caught and the family’s ‘stuff’ is returned, but since I heard this is based on a real break-in I don’t think that’ll happen.

Yukoner said: I have no real control over the present or the future but I know the one who has and in Him I find real peace.

I think of it daily but have failed to succeed in practice. I wish I could find peace in Him and Him alone. But I am bothered by human relationships and other material things. But well said Yukoner. :)

amen once more !!

Someone must be a really restless sleeper, they keep swapping sides of the bed… Wouldn’t you be restless after having your house burgled?… But still ;)

Oddly, I find it very comforting that we are all ad-libbing a bit. The idea of having it all plotted out and knowing exactly what to do all the time sounds good but would squeeze all the life out of living. And this from a father of two teenaged boys!

I absolutely agree with dad on this one.

growing up is so….?? i still remember what is was when i was a novice - 18 years ago. now i am a novice director.

Right on, Dad

But where are Calvin & Hobbes? Haven’t seen either forever. Did the burglar snatch them? Did they sneak out to snatch the burglar? Is Dad’s main fear that those two will take over the earth? Calvin, where are you?

He’s sleeping, Lewreader.

Do you think maybe that Calvin’s dad is really Charlie Brown grown up?

“Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.” Psalm 121:4 “Someone to Watch over Me”

There’s been some awful heavy stuff going through here. Makes me wonder if Mr. Watterson was experiencing some unpleasantness during this time……….

“And we know that all things work TOGETHER for good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to his purpose.” - Romans 8:28

It’s not really ad-libbed, Dad. It only seems that way, sometimes. “He has the whole world in His hands”

“THERE’S ONE THAT GOD’LL HAFTA REPLACE!” Dennis the Menace

God is sovereign! It’s his prerogative.

I ALWAYS sleep on the right side of the bed (as you stand at the base looking at it).

Teneli” Shucks, I wanted to post about the side of the bed issue and you beat me to it.

they switched side! I never switch side, can’t sleep if I’m on the wrong side.

It should be Calvin and Hobbes instead of Mom and Dad isn’t it?

I noticed the bed switch, too, both yesterday and today. My husband always sleeps on the side closest to the door of the room we’re in. That means we switch sides when we sleep in the RV. Took the cat camping with us last week-end, and he was sooo upset that we weren’t on the “right” side of the bed.

God made us so we could learn and, by God, learn we will!

Marg, HI! :-) yes! Double Amen! I can say “Amen!” many times.

Well done, Dad! (Calvin’s dad) ;-) wink!!

rise22, the right side is always the right side of something you are on or in (car, stage,bed). I’m disappointed in mom and dad, they thought adults had it all figured out when they were kids? Most of got most of their education from ugly puppets with irritating voices on TV.

you mean we have to grow up??!!? ;-)

BOY you got that right Dad.

Being left-handed, I prefer that my partner sleeps on my right. She seems to like it better too. She’s right-handed.

I wonder if there’s been a study about opposite-handed couples being more compatible and nocturnally fulfilled than same-handed ones. I bet we are.

Dagwood Bumstead, the SKNXXX king, has always slept on Blondie’s right. I don’t even know why I know that. I haven’t seen the strip in at least 15 years. As a kid, I used to wonder if they ever had sex or if they were more like my parents.

cambelr said

“Do you think maybe that Calvin’s dad is really Charlie Brown grown up?”

Nope. I think he is more like Calvin, all grown up.

More like Watterson all grown up.

Can we spam the spammers with our comic comments?

rw1h said, about 4 hours ago

There’s been some awful heavy stuff going through here. Makes me wonder if Mr. Watterson was experiencing some unpleasantness during this time……….

He was victim of the same type of break-in.

Kinda like parenthood: no rule book, no instruction manual, just wing it!

Rise22 said: I ALWAYS sleep on the right side of the bed (as you stand at the base looking at it).

I always sleep on the left side of the bed (as you stand at the footboard looking at the headboard).

ocean17 said: I wonder if there’s been a study about opposite-handed couples being more compatible and nocturnally fulfilled than same-handed ones. I bet we are.

My husband and I are both right-handed and after being married for almost 22 years now, I’d say that we’re still just as “compatible and nocturnally fulfilled” as the day we married!

Hum a few bars & I’ll fake it.

Amen, Dad! Adults have only a few advantages: they have made enough decisions to have some idea of what not to choose, and they know who to ask. Likewise grandparents: they’ve seen a lot of the problems earlier, so are good ones to ask when in doubt…

Well, we are all on the same wavelength ‘cause as I finished reading this strip today I thought “Amen!” and it’s already been said here… a few times. But it can’t hurt to say it again so Amen! I think that alot of what we read about in this strip reflects Watterson’s thoughts thoughts and feelings at the moment just as any work of art will transmit it’s author’s thoughts. Anyway, he was and still is a friggin’ genius. Bill, come back! We miss you!

When did they switch sides?

When I was a child I thought everithing is obvious, to have a job, to have a flat or a house to live, to have money and something to eat. When school was over I recogniced that it is not obvious to have a job and money. I had to learn it!

Nothing is much fun without Calvin and Hobbes in the scene…