For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 23, 2018

Just you wait, Michael, when you get married and have daughter Meredith and son Robin many years form now.

Steve: Why did you destroy your bed Christopher?

Christopher: To make Michael earn his 5 dollars an hour.

Steve: Well now you have to sleep on the floor, because we can’t afford to buy you a new bed.

Christopher: No, I could sleep on the couch.

Steve: You could, except you wrecked the couch too.

Christopher: The Pattersons buy new stuff when their kids destroy things.

Steve: The Pattersons have a lot more money than we do.

Those are the worst behaved kids in the world. Use duct tape.

Time to call mom, Mike!

Time to call mom, Mike!

I babysat once, all they wanted was an audience. I walked out of the room, the “antics” stopped. The kid came out and sat beside me because she was bored, I let her watch tv until she fell asleep.

What about the baby? Diaper chainring was mentioned.

turnabout

What these two brats need is some discipline by a male figure. I think their father is a emotionally absent member of the family, if I remember right. There was a study with African elephants where poachers had killed off all the bull elephants. The young males grew up basically as thugs, they would harass and kill rhinos due to the lack of Male guidance. Unfortunately Mike cannot discipline them as the mother would have a hairy fit, if I remember right.

Mike give them Castor oil

Mike sure picked up Elly’s style of saying STOP! in panel 3. We eventually turn into our parents.