For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 27, 2014

Complication, here comes girl (Deanna?)! ;)

Oh God its elementary school Deanna…it takes me a while to get used to her.

To paraphrase Baloo from “Jungle Book”, “Them things ain’t nothin’ but trouble!”

In contrast to many, I can’t remember every having a “girl aversion.”

Isn’t Deanna a blonde? And I don’t remember her throwing herself at him like this….. I think this is some other girl in his class, not THE girl.

Yes: I remember budding 5th grade attractions. How awkward!

In my own experience this is right on target, if not a bit late.

Unfortunately that complication will haunt you for the rest of your life. LOL

Fifth grade is hard for a lot of kids, it’s the point when they have to really try.

DDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM

I have a grandson that is 5th grade this year and he still thinks girls are “yuky”……..by next year I think he will think different.

When I was in kindergarten, a boy named David took a shine to me. He’d tell me he was coming over, we’d find him sitting on my front steps, and I’d invite him inside and we’d play. I didn’t see him during the following summer, and when first grade started, I eagerly ran up to him and said something like, “Hi, David!”He looked right through me. I knew right away what was going on, and learned early about the fickleness of love. Never had any real “boy friends” after that till university years.

You let that very first girl into your life, and you are setting yourself up for a lifetime of female relationship troubles. A lifetime of off and on misery and whining. My observations of watching my sons over the many years, try and cope with their females.

Why is it that they are attracted to those “closet cases” in the first place?

Something else I’ve noticed; as Winston Churchill (of the US and Brits — but it works for Canadians as well) said “two great peoples separated by a common language” — besides the reversed ‘er’, superfluous ‘u’, and ‘s/c’ substitutions — now we have “Grade Five” vs. “Fifth Grade”.

howardtheduck;You seem to have the most critical, sour outlook on everything in this strip!

I was also lucky enough not to even consider dating till college, which made life much simpler. However, I will be clueless if and when my kids date before that point.

Honestly, I think most of us are at least partially crazy, so it’s just a matter of finding a crazy with which we’re compatible. As it is, I’m compatible with most types of male crazy, but not the evil, refusal-to-communicate, angry, oh-so-logical type (hint, it’s not real logic, you’re just showing how you feel superior to your friends and yes, that is a problem)

I had crushes on various girls since the first grade. Didn’t know why I felt that way, I just did. Felt good to be around them. It wasn’t til the 6th grade that I actually started “feeling ways about stuff”. LOL!

These aren’t re-runs. Lynn decided to do the series all over again, it’s new!

Some of y’all so crazy. Maybe the answer is internet dating.

You’re right, 11-12 is way too young. I’m 16 and have yet to get where these kids are already.

It could be possible that Brian and Michael are not in the same homeroom.