Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 17, 2012

If we let a represent your greed and b represent your desire to misbehave, please solve for c: will Calvin will get any presents this year.

I doubt that you can over come too.Your just an average little boy that Mom and Dad love.

What’s worse is being “Mummy and Daddy’s little overachiever” all your life, and then realising as you get older that if your parents aren’t proud of you just because you’re theirs, nothing you do is going to be enough to make it happen.

It’s not easy to suppress the urge of misbehave!

No Christmas, no holiday stress. I feel fine. :-)

Santa should give Calvin cred for honest self-evaluation

I aim to misbehave.

They will cancel eachother out.

We’ve all been there…

He’s having “naughty” thoughts.

Greed and desire to misbehave are prime examples of selfishness and pride.“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” – Jeremiah 17:9

“It’s the nature of the beast”, but realizing it is a big step in the right direction. Love is the answer.“God so loved …that he gave…”

Very much so, unfortunately. And while you’re busily overachieving everyone else is having fun…so I’m having my childhood now.

If you think about it, isn’t it also true of adults. It’s just a matter of different things and scale.

I hope no relative is stupid enough to give Calvin the kind of presents he’d like.

Which one is it going to be then, Calvin?

Misbehaving or getting loads of presents?

And don’t pick the obvious one.

LOL xxx

We all have doubts

Stress is where you worry about it.

6-year-old problems

The Jewish are lucky for none of that.

For Calvin staying good is a long time before Christmas.

Go to Walmart on Black Friday and you’ll see both.

A little holiday honesty is quite refreshing. Getting gifts from Santa used to be a reward to children for good behavior, but lately Santa has become a wishy-washy pushover, and getting presents from Him is a given to children despite their behavior. We have so lost our ability to enforce consequences. And apparently if the commercials are to be believed the only thing that will happen if you misbehave is that you’ll get a red Mercedes instead of a white one. So to all you kids and kids-at-heart out there, let’s spread the message of Santa to everyone: live how ever you want. Lie, cheat, steel, harass, and commit all the violence you want, and around the time we are supposed to be celebrating the birth of Christ, a magical fat man will reward you for it. Isn’t Christmas just wonderful?

Oh, to be 6 years old again!!!!! With only 7 short shopping days left to go and just half my list complete, my stress levels are through the roof right now! Once again, I’ll sure be glad when yet another Christmas comes and goes.

Wait!!! What am I still doing here anyhow?!?!? I have to go SHOPPING now!!!!! ;-)

THAT is stress.

Hobbes is naked except for that scarf! Why the scarf?

santa should change careers to one of three careers. major manufacturer, head of an intelligence agency, or supreme postmaster general. and, do the job year round, not one day of the year.

You don’t know what stress is Calvin!

@VeridianWhy thank you. Seemed appropriate.