For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 02, 2012

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    legaleagle48  over 12 years ago

    And yet, Elly, the time will come when you will LONG for the days when you were baking cookies with a three-year-old!

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    luckylouie  over 12 years ago

    It’s nice having the kids help out. It makes them feel important, and it only takes twice as long as doing it by yourself.

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    psychlady  over 12 years ago

    Those eyes in the last panel! Very talented!Treasure the moment Elly! It won’t last!

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    tripwire45  over 12 years ago

    My wife makes cookies with our 3 year old grandson all the time. It’s pretty much like that, especially wanting to skip the baking part and eating out of the mixing bowl.

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    J Short  over 12 years ago

    Must have forgotten: Too many cooks spoil…

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    ewalnut  over 12 years ago

    Why insist that you can only put one eye on each bunny? I’m with Elizabeth — the more raisins in the cookies, the better.

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    astar15  over 12 years ago

    When I made cookies with my mom, we never had to face problems like Ellie just faced

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    nancyroy2  over 12 years ago

    so true!!

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    Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Good job Elly! Just suck the fun right out of it for Elizabeth. Years from now, this moment will come back and haunt you.

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    Miba  over 12 years ago

    Wait, she’s going to let a child scrape out the bowl? As in EAT the RAW cookie dough!? Let’s hope it’s a no-egg recipe! Children that young have been known to die from salmonella. Salmonella is a horrid, horrid illness (I had it at 12 and I got it from raw cookie dough) and it’s not worth eating raw dough. People can go through their entire lives and not get sick even once but to me it’s not worth the risk, that’s just how bad it was to be sick. Especially for a child that young.

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    tuslog64  over 12 years ago

    Kids can be a lot of trouble.But it’s the only way you get grandkids.(5F 3M)

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    marmar4  over 12 years ago

    Told my friends’ husband to be,“She makes cookies.”

    “Sometimes she even bakes them. "

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    hcr1985  over 12 years ago

    Come on Elly, relaxx a little….you’re baking cookies, not performing brain surgery!!! The best memories get a little messy :)

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 12 years ago

    Rather than make bunny-shaped cookies and go through all this . . . they should have just made chocolate chip or oatmeal-raisin cookies instead. The more (raisins / chocolate chips) the better! Plus, no icing sugar all over the place — including on Lizzie’s clothes. Not as cute as bunny cookies but easier to make and less stress involved. There! Problem solved.

     

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    iced tea  over 12 years ago

    I have memories of making things with my kids. One time my boys helped me bake bread. My daughter helped out with cookies. We all tried to have a taffy pull once, but it flopped. Those were the days.

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    chris.smith618  over 12 years ago

    There is nothing in the world that beats cooking with kids!.If I even go near the stove, my two grandkids grab chairs so they can help stir. ;) I love it. It takes twice as long, but I love it!

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 12 years ago

    So put an apron on the kid & give her some cookies of her own to decorate.

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    Baarorso  over 12 years ago

    It could be said that “Many hands make light work…but many LITTLE hands double the work load.” ;-D

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    Deborah N Lurie  over 12 years ago

    I normally love this strip. This one was a mistake. What is the memory? “I can’t make a cookie the right way.” I have enough of those memories and vowed by kids would not have them and they don’t. At the appropriate age, they figured out how to color in the lines. I am almost 55 and my mother ijs still trying to give me those memories. Now I ignore her and she wonders why.

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    dadw5boys  over 12 years ago

    always mess up cookies with too much baking soda — kids will not like cookies much after that — worked here.

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