For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 16, 2010

Oops, Mom heard that. Prepare for more, Michael.

Can Ellie handle anything about her kids without yelling?

Trampolines cost money too, just usually not as much ;) .

When my kids were younger and in their furniture jumping stage, I just had old hand me down living room furniture I didn’t give a hoot about. It was already coming loose at the seams so it didn’t bother me that my son with aspergers jumped to get his energy out. He outgrew it and now we have nice furniture :)

Hey Michael, maybe you could jump on a couple of these idiotic C h i n e s e S p a m b o t s for us, SQUISH the J o r d a n s!

I wonder whether I should flag posts about flagging, too. :P

Seems like someone is screaming at someone every day in this strip lately. A lot more worse than better…………..

^It’s summer, and the kids are home all day.

I tell my kids that they can only jump on furniture that they’ve bought with their own money.

Wasn’t this the 70s? Back when you could smack your kids without it becoming a federal case?

One of the local neighbours should have taught Elly how to properly wield a slipper on that boy…

Michael, if you think that you are being lectured now, just wait until you get married.

Kids are still out of school? I live half a block from a school and I think they started last week.

My sister and I (now grown and with our own children college-age or older) can still give each other a serious case of the giggles by intoning, “I’m SO disappointed in you!” I would have rather my sainted mother hit me (which she never did) than “talk” to me… ;-)

I HATED THE DISAPPOINTED LECTURE.

Sorry, loooks like I had the caps button on.

Here in the city the kids jump on the recycled, er discarded mattress the fine citizens throw out their apartments. Stained, but still bounce-able

eww Lewreader!!

I can definitely understand both point of views.

3 reminders, then a scream, THEN a smack.

We never jumped on the furniture…Not sure why, but I’m sure we would’ve gotten it if we did…Oh that’s why we never did! ;)

Poll Time: Hands up, everyone who got a good smack once in a while and didn’t die from IT or end up permanently emotionally scarred or mentally maladjusted.

“Michael, this is your new Nanny… Big Black Momma… She wears a size 16 slipper…” ;-)

If Michael’s tired of the daily lectures, then you’d think he’d quit doing the kind of things that would bring them on!

learn up, kid…

I love the way Ellie calls it HER furniture. It reminds me of my mother saying to us kids, “Get out of my kitchen!” when we were getting in the way.

She should have called it a Chesterfield not a couch. They are in Canada…

I don’t know anyone IRL who calls a couch a chesterfield and I have lived my whole life in Canada!