Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 03, 2021

And your parents were very proud of you… and greatly relieved.

And when he was 6, he became the first person to stuff a real tiger.

" Toilet trained " . . . . . . . .sort of

Don’t worry, they have participation trophies for everything now

You being four was only two years ago, Calvin.

Gifted at a young age. I started playing video games at probably 2 years old. There I was, supposed to be in bed when something was calling out to me. Now don’t get me wrong, Dorothy. It wasn’t a dream, I do remember wandering downstairs until I was in front of big TV. A few pushes of a button later and I was playing NES’s Super Mario Bros without any idea what was going on but still managed to win. Needless to say, video games will always be my passion.

To each his own skills.

Now isn’t that just amazing. He probably needed a small ladder to conquer that feat.

Be proud, Calvin. All accomplishments come in different varieties.

When I was four I could already read.

I sure HOPE, for Mom’s sake, that he was toilet trained by age 4. In fact, 3 is kind of late… Which isn’t to say that he might DECIDE to do something anti-social…

Concert pianists perhaps have 20 or more pieces in their head they can play flawlessly w/o sheet music. And each can be quite long!

Just like I wrote my first novel when I was four. In crayon.

Nobody said it was a GOOD symphony.

Wrote a symphony, got toilet trained. Pretty much a toss up.

When I had to sit on the pot, I paintet every wall, when I found a pencil!!

Of course we don’t have any reliable information on just when Mozart was toilet trained.

Join the crowd, Cal. You ain’t alone.

Music was made all around.

When I was four I enjoyed life.

I think Amadeus and Calvin would have got along fine together. Both mischievous and creative. If they grew up together, we might have an opera today about Snow Goons!

Mozart had a weird fixation with scatological humor. When on the road and being shown off like a trained monkey by his father, he often wrote to his sister, Nanerl, about his daily toilet visits. Mozart was an odd one, but I suppose that much genius must allow for a little strange behaviour. Many of the great composers were a little off-kilter.

Calvin the underachiever.

‘Calvin’, that subject generally in not covered in ‘bios’ on record covers ! ! ! !

Seriously, Cal? No $h

That late? I doubt it…

At age 5 he was exploited by his father and the Emperor, then died an early death from burnout.

You think…you mean you’re not sure, Calvin?

I could play the piano as well at age two as I can now! Really awful then and now.

67 years ago when I was four I could….

When I was four, it was a very good year… It was a very good year for, um, me! (Sorry Kingston Trio/Frank)

Calvin, the Amazing Bathroom Goer!

When I was 4 I found out that next year I had to go to school for 5 days straight. Never liked that idea. Missed all the daytime shows and it was pre VCRs.

I didn’t even start piano till I was about 5.

I don’t think I remember being 3, or 4 for that matter. Uh oh! Better not say more or some nimrod is going to take my car keys and start talking slower.

Ah yes, four. I remember turning five right after.

Same here buddy, same here…LOL

When I was 4 I had already sold my first company.

i could barely talk at 3 lol

Is that the last civilized thing Calvin learned?

Yep, this strip was originally printed in October 1986, hence the turntable and LP records. CDs were around then, but their players were REALLY expensive, and I really doubt the Dad would want to get a CD player…

I try not to think about the fact that, by the time Duane Allman was my age, he’d been dead for 41 years……….

when I was 4 I could identify all kinds of bugs and fungus that would effect the health of our rice field

Actually what I think is amazing here is that a stuffed Tiger can read and understand the back of a record album….

In grade school, we had bookworms made of paper rings. Mine was the longest.

MY four year old, almost five, son is taking his time becoming potty-trained! Were MY mom around, she would have had him trained by three! Mommy, apparently, is not in a rush to accomplish this!

I could read at 4, didn’t get writing down until I was around 5. I was a first chair clarinet player at 10, but I never was able to write or compose music.

When I was 4, I was stuck in the birth canal.

When I was 4, the whole backyard was my toilet.

When I was four I was already five.

Mum said I was potty-trained at about 18 months.

Calvin goes to a place of government-run education (i.e. “public school”) and he was toilet trained when he was four?

Man, what a genius! Most public school kids cannot read, write, do math or know how to go to the bathroom.

The oddity is that more people are familiar with Calvin than with Mozart.

That late , Calvin?

And it was bitter-sweet for him because it ended the M&M rewards..

Ahem, with your kind of wit, rhe childhood milestones do match with the music wizard.