For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 29, 2012

Hey, to an eight-year-old, that’s impressive (and no, I’m not even going to go there with regard to Lawrence’s future love life!)

Yeah, ir starts out as one of the guys, then, as time goes on…

I think most 8 year old boys would skew pretty negative on girls. Girls are DIFFERENT!

When I was 8 girls were just someone else to play with. I think I was almost 10 before I realized that they were a different species from another planet with strange and disturbing behaviors and best avoided. And then 13 before I realized those differences were wonderful things.

Ooh, that is impressive! Back in the day, I was a pretty good burper which was also cool at the time.

well said

being a “tomboy” basically all my life, I like your definition much better. It fits what my life and career have been.

A boy came home from school:Dad: How did you do in Arithmetic today?Student: Got a CHow did Bill do?Got an AJohn?AAlice?BYou let a mere girl get a better grade than you??Dad, girls aren’t as mere as they used to be!!

I love that line too and the look on Hermione’s face in the movie too!

I never went through the, “don’t like girls” stage. I discovered there was a difference somewhere between kindergarten and 1st grade. I’ve been fascinated by and in love with women ever since. When I was 8, if I got a smile from a pretty girl I was in heaven.

Wait until puberty hits both these boys. I saw it in my older boy who was a real girl hater until he was 13,

Actually, he won’t. Lawrence is gay, and will come out of the closet right around the time the boys are in high school. He just doesn’t know it yet.

When I was eight, the girl next door and I were hiding in her room doing things our mothers would not want to see.

SWEET

Damn, now THAT’S foreshadowing! (Although I’m pretty sure Lynn wrote this before she decided Lawerence was gay.)