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1. 

   margueritem said, about 1 month ago

   She knows her water, too.

2. 

   Yukoner said, about 1 month ago

   She sure does.

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   someoneuser said, about 1 month ago

   Ah kids, you gotta love the little monsters ;-)

4. 

   MontanaLady said, about 1 month ago

   Didn’t Goldilocks have the same problem?

5. 

   LX013 said, about 1 month ago

   Cook him alive!

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   Gweed O'Murray said, about 1 month ago

   I was hoping it would be stone cold after all the fussing.

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   kreole said, about 1 month ago

   Childrean are a payback…..wonder what she did?

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   Andy said, about 1 month ago

   a month has passed again hehe… ^^

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   rayannina said, about 1 month ago

   That’s easy: she did the same things to her mom that Calvin does to her.

10. 

    Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

    Mom knows everything…

    … all moms do!

11. 

    Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

    Mom knows everything…

    … all moms do!

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    ♠Lonewolf♠ said, about 1 month ago

    It’s not as if you act mysterious or anything, Calvin! Your book is ALWAYS open.

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    pineapplehoney said, about 1 month ago

    Isn’t it strange….. how did she know….
    I wish mom wouldn’t ask Calvin to bathe… its such a waste of time and energy and then you need to take extra effort to get stinky again.

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    ArtyG said, about 1 month ago

    My 37 year old son came over today with his sons, 2.5 and 4.5 I call the weasels. He reminded me of how much he enjoyed being bathed as a child . We hugged. That’s as good as it gets.

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    Dino-1 said, about 1 month ago

    My 3 year old granddaughter is just now getting better with the warmer water. She’ll now ask to have her bathwater warmer to start with. Before I used to have to get her out three or four times to add more hot water because before long she’d be shivering.

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    hagarthehorrible said, about 1 month ago

    I love Calvin in 3 panel. Look at the expression on his face. He thoroughly agrees with his mother. Been there done that !

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    watcha said, about 1 month ago

    If the water was not scaling hot he would not need to throw a tantrum until it is ‘perfect’

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    LuvH8 said, about 1 month ago

    My kids didn’t want to get into the bath and didn’t want to get out of the bath! (Big Sigh!)

    
    

    It’s a good thing I love them!

    
    

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    mexdr1958 said, about 1 month ago

    Calvin, as any maladjusted child (and what child is not maladjusted?) will complain just as a matter of routine.

    It is only good the law doesn´t allow infanticide anymore….

    In the words of Rodney Carrington: “You love them so much you feel like wringing their little necks…”

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    PTui2 said, about 1 month ago

    What’s the point in taking a bath… He’ll just get dirty again. For that matter, why bother to feed kids? They just get hungry again in a few hours. There’s no end to it, I tell ya…

21. 

    Tanya said, about 1 month ago

    I’m very thankful that I don’t have any kids… just my fur-babies (cats)… to each their own.

22. 

    ronaldmundy said, about 1 month ago

    montanalady….that was porridge.

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    Grog said, about 1 month ago

    As Lonewolf has stated Calvin’s book is always open, and Mom’s read it over and over.

    He’s a broken record that keeps playing the same tune, and Mom’s got his number down.

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    Richard said, about 1 month ago

    Just take the little sucker outside and hose him down.

25. 

    Macushlalondra said, about 1 month ago

    My mom used to say she hoped I had kids just like I was. I never did but I have had cats that were like I was!

26. 

    Aardvark359 said, about 1 month ago

    Is it soup yet?

27. 

    Susan001 said, about 1 month ago

    mexdr1958: any more?
    When WAS infanticide legal?

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    dsom8 said, about 1 month ago

    watcha: You missed the point. If it had been “perfect” he would have thrown a tantrum anyway. And then the water would have been too cold, and he’d have thrown another one. Mom’s just one step ahead of his game.

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    musicnut1986 said, about 1 month ago

    Contrary to the title of the old ‘50’s TV show, MOTHER Knows Best!

    It is amazing how a mother’s quotient for love outstrips the child’s quotient for aggravation.

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    Johanan Rakkav said, about 1 month ago

    Are some of you awake up there?

    What child isn’t maladjusted?

    Was that really a serious question? You must not know any of the vast throngs that have had good parents and good training.

    When was infanticide legal?

    What I just said above notwithstanding, you’d be surprised. Consider the following from Yuni’s Latin Quotes (this one is obviously modern, but it reflects some ancient practices):

    Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem - In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags!

    Throw that at the intelligent but unruly little Calvins in your lives!

    Mothers know best?

    Yes, about being mothers. But the social liberals lost that argument long ago (they just refuse to admit it): everyone does best when the father is the real head of the household and is respected for his brand of love and wisdom. I wish I’d had that. So, had my mother only realized it then, did she - but it’s hard to see it when the father completely abandons his family.

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    lbbear said, about 1 month ago

    I remember hating taking baths as a kid. I was always afraid I was going to miss something on television.

32. 

    Puddleglum2 said, about 1 month ago

    They preempt infanticide by killing the unborn child.

33. 

    grazer said, about 1 month ago

    We kids loved taking long, warm baths at my grandparents place in the city—they had a real bathtub with hot running water! ~At home, we used hand pumps and galvanized wash tubs.

34. 

    AJCA said, about 1 month ago

    My oldest son takes his shower with boiling water and doesn’t come out until the water is cold

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    musicnut1986 said, about 1 month ago

    Johanan Rakkav, my posting “MOTHER(singular) Knows Best”, is a play on the name of an old television show titled “Father Knows Best”. It was not meant to be a deep philosophical discussion point.

    Lighten up, this is only a comic strip.

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    daphygirl said, about 1 month ago

    Calvin, she’s been giving you baths for six years now, I’d be supprized if she didn’t know you that well.

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    jaeldid66 said, about 1 month ago

    AJCA, my step-daughter did the same; until I went downstairs and found the hot water shut-off valve!

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    Vonnegut said, about 1 month ago

    It’s like cooking a frog. The trick is to put the frog in cool water and then slowly heat it up until he’s poached! The frog doesn’t think to hop out because the change in temp is gradual.

    But I will concede that in spite of a shoddy, under-funded educational system and a child-age population composed mainly of lazy, brain-dead, video-junkies raised by self-absorbed, absentee parents, that most human children still retain a basic autonomic nervous system slightly more advanced than a frog.

    Some days I think that slight evolutionary advantages like that are the only thing holding humanity back from the brink of extinction.

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    freeholder1 said, about 1 month ago

    The constant complaining, the pounding the fist, the ranting over the most inconsequential thing, yelling when things are actually designed to work out: When he grows up he’ll have a show on Fox News.

40. 

    freeholder1 said, about 1 month ago

    So, johan, we can’t trust your opinion because you were raised by a Mom? :)

41. 

    Vigilante de noche said, about 1 month ago

    … Or in half as many words? Get in before it’s too cold.

42. 

    lindz.coop said, about 1 month ago

    I think the hose idea is perfect – then the water won’t be too hot – especially if he lives where I do this time of the year.

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    MrsLukeSkywalker said, about 1 month ago

    Wow! Hose him down. That’s sure not the kind of “sensitivity” you’re always preaching about! I guess the “sensitivity” and “it’s only a comic” sermons only apply to everyone else but the preachers!

    He’s so cute. Kids are supposed to resist baths and bedtime. If he didn’t, what would be funny about this? Why do child haters even read this?

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    stroodle83 said, about 1 month ago

    This one always makes me laugh!

45. 

    james the great and ... said, about 1 month ago

    He’s like that little kid that was in the Mr. Bubble ad that said it gets you so clean your own grandma won’t recognize you.

46. 

    LX013 said, about 1 month ago

    After much snow yesterday, a warm bath will be fine!

47. 

    propellermario said, about 1 month ago

    a warm bath is great for him

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    musicnut1986 said, about 1 month ago

    mrslukeskywalker said, about 14 hours ago

    “Wow! Hose him down. That’s sure not the kind of “sensitivity” you’re always preaching about! I guess the “sensitivity” and “it’s only a comic” sermons only apply to everyone else but the preachers!”

    Mrsluke, your comment makes no sense whatsoever. My “it’s only a comic” comment was a single sentence, not a “sermon”. If your statement was not directed at me you should state specifically who it was addressed at. Otherwise, shotgun statements with a negative context not specifically addressed to specific posters will be seen for what they are - driveby statements from trollers trying to stir up trouble.