Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 30, 2010

And he does follow that principle…

Hi Marg. Congratulations on being number one. :>)

A good principle t have, you can’t help others if you’re out cold or worse ;)

Morning guys!

Poor Hobbes… The look on his face says it all!

<< Yesterday, GretchensMom said: While it’s important for children not be spoiled to the point where they believe they’re the center of the universe, it’s even more important for them not to be ignored by their parents simply because they don’t want to be “bothered” by their kids. No one put a gun to his parents’ heads and forced them to procreate; therefore, they owe their child the time and attention it takes to raise him properly. Maybe if they did, he wouldn’t be the way he is. The book could have waited while dad spared his son 5 minutes of his undivided attention – even if it was to play a silly number-guessing game. >>

Hello there, GretchensMom. Speaking of guessing, my guess is that Gretchen is a very lucky person.

Most young children are self-centered by nature, and some tend to only look out for Number One. My experience with Calvin is that when he is focused on looking out for Number One, others are focused on looking out for Calvin.

But when young children eventually become parents of young children, it is important for them to realize that they need to have outgrown much of this. Parents need to live by more than a single principle – especially Calvin’s single principle.

Sometimes that means putting their own adult pleasure on hold for awhile in order to provide pleasure to their child. And sometimes when they force themselves to do this, they are surprised to discover that their child is providing just as much pleasure to them in return.

When a parent repeatedly ignores their child, it isn’t just the child who loses out.

– Hobbes

You wear it well, Calvin! LOL

G’Morning, Grog, Marg & Mike!

Cavin will do well when he grows up.

Too true, Hobbes, too true …

Calvin seems to ascribe to the philosophy of Bachman/Turner Overdrive -

there’s only one way to get things done I found out the only way to the top Is looking out for number one.

Good Morning Marg (the hardest part of being number one is staying there).

I wonder which bank Calvin will be running later in life?

Or, perhaps for Marg, the hardest part of being number one is staying awake – night after night. :>)

somebodyshort, your Dad was a wise man.

“A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.”

-Gandhi

Never to deviate is difficult! I fear, people who think they never deviate are in danger to be without mercy for other people! Seeing the difficulty makes it easier to be graceful with other people!!

BTO ref. may be “Taking care of business” never equated it to “taking care of #1” - took it to mean being lazy but looking busy while doing it … “If you ever get annoyed look at me I am self employed, I love to work at nothing all day…. taking care of business & working overtime!”

While Calvin’s is a human fault, never (in this ENFP’s humble opinion) is it more characteristic or more self-defeating than when it’s in an ENFP like Calvin.

Hobbes, I could cite you a nice paragraph from Dr. Linda Berens’ and Dr. Dario Nardi’s excellent workbook on the Personality Type Code (reference: ENFP). That MBTI type is the only one of whom it is specifically said (for the immature), “Others may view them as selfish. They just seem to do what they want.”

Mea culpa maxima, some days.

With all that hiking Calvin does, I think he would be better off looking out for #2. Stepping in it would be sure to ruin his day…

I always say, “If I don’t take care of myself, who will?!” In my little world if I fall apart everybody else’s world falls apart. Afterall I wear many hats, wife, mom, and grandmother. My friends call me, “the social director”.

Yes, Dino-1, that’s a very important point. That’s why, last week Wednesday, I encouraged everyone to “find true joy by living fully in the present for others, without neglecting yourself.” If you neglect yourself, you will end up neglecting others.

When you wear a lot of hats, sometimes you will find true joy, but sometimes you will also find true stress. By the way, I was only able to see one hat in your photo. Maybe you give the other hats a rest when you talk to us.

But that’s OK – I only wear one face here.

– Hobbes

I’m usually looking out for #2

Hobbes the ones who have difficulty being “first” are the “East Coasters!” :-D

What is ” # 2 ” ?

By being highly pricipled, Calvin also spends a lot of time with the school principal.

1’s have to have somebody looking out for them. Why not # 1?

And make sure you don’t step in #2

LX013 - #1 is code for urine, # 2 for excrement.

2 in competition is often considered to be the first loser.

OOH, neat font size. How the Heskipoles did I do that?

Calvin manages looking out for himself very well.

magnamax, #s at the beginning of a line enlarge the text; 1 # is the biggest, down to 4 ####s. 5 #####s gives red text.

Also, *s or _s before and after text will make it (1) italic, (2) bold, or (3) bold italic.

(Edit: to fix the mendasock formating.)

You wonder what happened to Calvin when he grew up,I can tell you now ,I think I voted for him last election .

Unfortunately Calvin, lots of people hold to that principle!

Being an ACOA, I understand Calvin’s point all too well with respect to surviving the insanity in my household as I grew up. Fortunately, Calvin’s parents look nothing like mine….

Principle #1, watch out for the principle one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4_0Pt3HAR8

bmonk thank you for the info.

I think looking out for #2 is always more important than looking our for #1!

Hmmm…conversations went from highbrow to the lowdown in a hurry tonight! From philosophy to colonoscopy…sort of. You guys are the best!

Calvin, I know someone who “looked out for #1”, and his uncle was murdered by someone he could’ve stopped earlier.

(For the comic book illiterates out there, I’m talking about Spider-Man.)

Unless the snow is yellow …