Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 13, 2020

It will be Mom’s fault when Calvin can’t get into a good college.

Boy, school always brings out the worst in kids, doesn’t it? (I should know)

He who fails to prepare must prepare to fail, Calvin!

Blame others : he will become a great politician. Or an insurer .

He could replace roadrunner with a toy soldier, but then that toy soldier would be MIA.

Modeling clay works great

Of course it’s Mom’s fault!!

Mom is right & Calvin is wrong. No one succeeds in life without putting in some effort unless of course you inherit material things & that doesn’t always guarantee success.

Kid logic…..(Sounds like a superhero)…….

This sounds alarmingly like the designers on the project I work on, if it all goes horribly wrong because of their putrescent design documents it will be because not enough work was done by others to compensate.

Kids should regularly experience failure appropriate to their development. Failure is an inevitable part of life and when it is the result of our own inaction (or misaction) we need to fail. Education is not without pain.

I don’t get it. How can she not have paper mache? Paper mache is just newspaper glued with a mix of flour and water. And the date is 1990, not 2020. I am pretty sure in 1990 she had old newspapers lying around.

I’m sure she doesn’t have any sand lying around the house, either. Just you ask and see, Cal!

try using play-doh

Blames others, takes no responsibility and not held accountable for himself. Seems like an obvious career path opened up.

Unfortunately it ends in being a LEWWWWZZZZER!

He should put in a horse with no name.

When children were still expected to take responsibility…. No helicopter parent here!

Talking back to your parents, Calvin? In some homes, that would get you in even more trouble than you:re already in…

It’s newpaper strips and paste made of flour – what’s so tough?

I remember doing a report on the solar system, and we weren’t allowed to use pictures cut out of old magazines, so my mother copied them (drew and coloured) – she was an artist and did a fantastic job. I got an “A+” for that report. I didn’t take credit for the pictures, but the I believe the teacher thought I had done them. I chose not to correct her misconception. :P

to make it up mom and dad will have to make lots of money so he can pay somebody else to get into Pennsylvania U. for him since he will be too dumb to get on his own, yet he will call suckers and losers those who can, and will take the credit for whatever everybody else does. He is learning well

When my oldest daughter was in grade school, they had to do projects. She did hers herself. They always let us parents come and look at them. We looked at some the kids brought in, and it was very obvious that the parents did the work for them.

Boy is this kid the floor plan for the Republican Party.

Maybe I was a bad parent but I always helped my kids with their school projects. Or maybe it was because I loved construction paper and Elmers glue.

Calvin’s logic is good, however, his life experience is limited. That sort of thinking is for Managers.

Calvin-you can’t make money by being a professional procrastinater. I know, I’ve tried, well almost tried.

Entitlement, thy name is Calvin.

I miss my kids being little, but I don’t miss these moments at all.

Maybe he can ring up Wile E. Coyote for some pointers, or order from Acme Corp…

“We don’t have any?” I seem to remember making it with newspaper and flour/water mix…

It’s sound logic. I had the same belief when I was that age.

They have to at least have modelling clay.

He may have a point. My parents never helped with my homework beyond providing the supplies that I needed. So the work on a projects like this were 100% mine. I remember in 4th grade getting especially ticked at kids who were clearly turning in work their parents did on science projects. But Mrs. Davidson didn’t seem to care even when it was super obvious. She just gave them their “A”. That was one of those “life isn’t fair” lessons that are so annoying.

What Mom doesn’t know how to make papier-mache?

As a retired teacher, there’s a LOT of truth in Calvin’s last statement.

If I recall, you only need water and flour and paper to make paper mache, Hard to believe his mom doesn’t have those things.

It is shocking how often that claim comes up in the professional world as well.

newspaper and flour, that is paper mache

Before 7:00 at night — not to mention before the due date.

Impeccable logic.

Calvin, Calvin…sigh. This is your chance to make a living diorama! Take a jar, catch some spiders— though a live scorpion would be better—; fill the box with sand, take the jar to school, and dump the critters in the box when you get to school.

Side benefit: extra recess time for the whole class, if the scorpion escapes from the diorama in the classroom.

Obviously a spoiled brat. Lazy big mouth

Six years is pretty early to start blaming parents for all.