For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 14, 2012

He got it, Mom didn’t.

Paula’s going to make a GOOD mom.

Paula can give tips to Rosalyn, Calvin’s babysitter.

Ah…Mrs. McTwitter, the babysitter…one of my fav. poems by Shel Silverstein!

Good answer! Always keep ’em guessing…

sounds like a 70’s top 40 hit! Baby, Baby, sit on th’ baby

Paula can give tips to all the babysitters in the world. But only the guy got it.

She rocked them to sleep with a real rock.

Check last panel. John didn’t hear Paula’s comment at all.His eyes wide open and are looking down, checking Paula’s “back side”.

You DO know that Jon’s not real, right?

Yeah, she’s got the right idea! Great babysitter!

If you can’t manage kids you’re minding, sit on them!

The Pattersons need to keep Paula on retainer so they’ve got a baby-sitter any time they need one because a really good one can be so hard to find sometimes!

Baby sat in college. Got the ones no one else would take a second time.

My parent’s final effortBabysitter Miss ‘El Drago’Is as different from the others as can be.

She waits until we’re quite aloneShe disconnects the telephoneShe locks the doors, then firmly sits on me!

(From ‘Seven ages of woman’, by Michael Flanders.)