For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 29, 2021

Or maybe she doesn’t want to be a bear

I think April can see all those thought balloons and they frighten her. If so, I don’t blame her. They frighten me too.

She wanted kids

I don’t think babies cross their arms in panel one. I felt the same as Elly when my boys were that age and did not want to wear costumes. My grandkids were better. My boys got into Halloween when they were older. My guess is babies and toddlers shy away from unfamiliar things or things they’ve never seen before.

So much of what we do for (to) kids when they’re little is for our benefit. We have to take pictures! They don’t know what’s going on and won’t remember the experience. But then, we’ve got pictures to show them!

“What makes you think she’s a witch?” “Well, she turned me into a newt!” “A newt?!?” “…I got better!”

Kids can be so disagreeable at times. I love the final panel. That’s is how I would respond to such a fussy kid.

too bad. Aren’t our kids spoiled enough already?????

Is Halloween for April or for the Mom? Doesn’t look like April thinks that it is going to be any fun.

Bear is foul and foul is bear…hover through the fog and the filthy air…

Bear is foul, and foul is bear…hover through the fog and the filthy air…Where hast thou been, sister? Making a fuss!

Oh well. Maybe next year…

The ex-hippie realizes an inconvenient truth.

One of our daughters had a severe hatred for going out of the house in a costume. She didn’t mind wearing one around the house, but anywhere else? Forget it. It was so bad that, for a Church Christmas pageant, they made her one of the narrators (even at a young age she was a fantastic public speaker). Around age 10 she finally got over it.

Here come the terrible two’s

Halloween is a real scream.

I’ll bet she would be happier as the witch. You can put a funny hat on a German Shephard but it still has fangs.

One year we dressed our 2 m.o. baby as a teddy bear and Mom wore PJ’s and a night cap and carried him. He fell asleep and some folks didn’t even realize he was alive.

Ah, the joy of toddlers. cough

maybe she doesn’t want to celebrate satan’s day

She grew up quickly.

Elle you thought an imagination full!!!

Little kids.They hate the preliminaries but love the main event.

Mom should take April to find custom she like to wear.When my son that age he was not interested in Halloween, I remember when he was ready to turn age 3 I planned taking him for his first one, only I just had his baby sister, and temps dropped so bad I could not, neighbor parent’s and kids offered to help and took him around, I really wanted to be me and I could not, the kids dad was informed he be going to 2nd shift two weeks before so that took care of that.

When we were growing up, Halloween costumes were all handmade by us, and my husband said that it was the same with him too, so we waited until our kids could do the same.

Thinking back to when our kids were that age, we never took them out, not until they were in school and could go out by themselves with their age group of friends. I didn’t see any good points about making or buying a costume.

I have pictures of those times, and only one year did the kids have plans for hand sewn costumes, and that’s when I helped them, using scraps of leftover materials from other sewing projects. But over all, during those years, they took what they had and made their own. We never bought prepared costumes.

Nowadays, it’s just crazy about the racks and racks in stores, and all to be turned into garbage within days…what a waste!!!!

Maybe she’s an introvert

April is actually at the age little kids get really scared of costumed people. Look at the annual pictures of sitting on Santa’s knee, for example. I would have made April a Devil, not a Witch.

Mom should get a similar costume, so that the kid will bear with her.

Been there done that with my then 3 year old son. I made him the most adorable bear costume and he enjoyed wearing it around the house and at pre-school. The night of the actual event he wouldn’t go near the thing and screamed for an hour. Needless to say he didn’t wear the bear costume or go out trick or treating. He let his older sister do it and come home with the goods.

I never had this problem. I suggested, or made, a costume and the kids wore it. They were wanting to get to goodies. My daughter went as a S&H Green Stamp once and I don’t know how many times we used the clown costume I made for her when she was in a play.

Must be naptime.

April can’t bear the thought. :)

I have no problem with the idea of Elle having negative thoughts about her toddler, due to frustration, but imagining her as a witch enforces the misogynic accusation that females who are “being difficult” are “witches”.

Wow, Elly, just wow. After trying to make a toddler wear something likely restricting and/or uncomfortable (especially without said toddler’s consent), ignoring her obvious distress (especially when you note that a toddler is not likely to enjoy wearing something as likely restricting and/or uncomfortable as a costume), and leaving her in her crib crying, you view her as a witch for not appreciating being treated that way? Elly, this is for you: fb.com/rightmessageimages/photos/466793467005289

It always strikes me as absurd when parents are so surprised that their young children do not want to go house to house asking strangers for candy. After all, they are taught from a very early age not to speak to strangers and never accept any candy from them.

Not sure I understand the last panel. Is Ellie thinking April is witch ?

I’m just curious… does anyone, other than me, think that April. still being in a crib, would be considered too young for Trick, or Treating?