For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 18, 2012

I’m sure thousands of moms can identify with this strip today. It certainly touches the heart.

A different form of separation anxiety.

I can relate to this strip. Our daughters are 7-1/2 and 10, and the letting-go doesn’t get easier as they get older, but is necessary. We just keep the old saying in mind: roots & wings.

Your kids are children for only a few years. But you are a parent forever.

“Mothers are like that…yeah they are”.

Wasn’t this the same kid that pitched a fit about going there not that long ago? There is a lesson somewhere in that for mothers, I think.

Oh that is an easy one: to give them interaction with other kids, to get acclimated to germs outside the familly environment before they start school, and in the case of the last kid, to be convince they are okay before scouting for a job. I did all these for my kids, it was normal modus operanti 20 years ago. Still is with some of my young coworkers. My friend just got her kid to kidergarden cause she was to spoiled by her grandparents and did not have social skill at age 3.

@luckylouie.. wow, martin’s line was a jumble of metaphors wasn’t it? football to a theme park?

this comic really shows it’s age, as we see elizabeth (probably 4?) jumping out of the FRONT seat of the car herself… no child car seat back then :)

“It takes a village…”Doesn’t it?

Just don’t be a helicopter parent, Elly.

Yep, I remember that day like it was yesterday. Good Luck son, I love you Dad. We had no Mom…

the worse my mothers dementia gets, the more i understand comics like this.

It reminds me of an old country andWestern song,“Birds and Children Fly Away.”

A few years down the road both kids are going to be saying “School Sucks!”