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Since its debut in 1979, For Better or For Worse has touched comic strip readers as few cartoons ever do. Cartoonist Lynn Johnston’s eye for detail and her uncanny sense of what real parents and children struggle with daily are a big part of her success. The world has watched the Patterson family grow up in real time, and to many readers, the Pattersons feel like family!
Parents and children alike will relate to the obstacles that the Patterson family faces. Curfews, parent date nights, babysitting, pets and distractions are all hurdles that the Pattersons must overcome in order to enjoy each other as a family. They face the same obstacles that real life families do, which is what makes them so loveable.
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MAC45 said, 6 months ago
Big boys need bigger toys.
templo SUD said, 6 months ago
This is also why Christopher’s mother disallows toys that promote violence.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
Lynn’s Notes:
I have always wondered what it is that makes boys and men want to run around shooting each other, when a really good, moderated argument would resolve almost anything. My thinking is: If women ruled the world, we’d get the politics over with expediently, thereby saving the civilian population, then do our best to rejuvenate each other’s economies by shopping! This said by someone who admits to having been a street fighter at the age of five!
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 6 months ago
re: night gaunt
Unfortunately, while Lynn is very good with the family dynamic much of the time, all one has to do is look at the Federal government, with 70% female and most agencies and field offices run by women to see what would result from what she suggested. Between the modern lack of professionalism and the lack of work ethic today in Federal service, quite frankly, I’d be embarassed. It didn’t used to be that way. Even ten years ago people quit the feds to start their own businesses and were usually surprised that it was less work. Today? Ha!
PhoebeDog said, 6 months ago
I don’t know who Lynn has worked with in the past, but I once had the opportunity to work in an all-female office and ran screaming from the interview. I don’t know why people assume that women would make for such a perfect world. Plus far too women decide with their heart rather than logic (and I am sometimes guilty of that as well), and don’t realize all the repercussions of some decisions. Not saying men are perfect, either—just that neither gender is.
michelle davis
said, 6 months ago
war is not fun. it is horrible…we have a huge chance of nuclear war within our life times. wow lynn…this is an appalling message
SUSAN NEWMAN
said, 6 months ago
Unfortunately, some nations, especially in the Middle East, would NEVER surrender their male-dominance—not without a fierce fight, that is.
Pappyvtx said, 6 months ago
No, war is not fun, Killing is not always the answer. BUT…I think Lynn has hit the nail on the head here. The boys are outside playing instead of sitting on the couch rotting their brains! As kids, we played war games too and in it most subliminal manner, it honed our social skills, taught us to work together, improved our tactical skills not only for fighting and playing , but for daily observations needed to get through life! Kudos Lynn!
mabrndt
said, 6 months ago
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or Golda Meir or …
serenasakitty said, 6 months ago
War must be fun. Otherwise why would everyone use any excuse or no excuse to get to the fighting?
In case anyone is wondering I do not approve of war. I think it is a stupid way to settle differences. Why has no one come up with a better way in all the millenia that humans have been on this planet?
Ok, I’ll get off the soap box now.
cmd13 said, 6 months ago
Hillary in 2016!
mabrndt
said, 6 months ago
@Pappyvtx
@Michael King:… Killing is not always the answer.
——————————————————————So how often is it? 1%? 5%? 25%? 50%? 80%?
Ralph Fisher
said, 6 months ago
what hell that mean
warriorpoco said, 6 months ago
Boys are wired for aggressive behavior. It’s one reason the species survives. Yep, it can be bad if not controlled. But if attempts are made to eliminate it, the aggression simply comes out in other unpleasant ways. And if it is ever bred out of the species we are doomed. For societies/civilizations collapse and it is the aggressiveness that allows survival Much easier for all when it’s properly channeled…
fbjsr said, 6 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
Yes, Margerat Thatcher gave the Argentinans a good talking to.