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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templo SUD said, 5 months ago
What freedom?
thebird55 said, 5 months ago
♪♫ Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose….♪♫
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 5 months ago
Actually, he’s right. When I was a kid, most housewives didn’t work 8 or more hours straight. They did a task, then did something else that they wanted to do, yakked with neighbors, did some more work, etc. It was the extra income that most sought when they entered the job market, despite only being able to retain 20% of the extra income after all the additional costs of having two people work were tallied up (transportation, child care, etc.). Most found that working 8+ hours a day was not as much fun as they thought it would be, versus having their own schedule.
delaterra said, 5 months ago
It’s amazing how Ellie can be working with the laundry in the second panel and in the kitchen in the third panel, all during John’s same sentence! Supermom…
MadCow
said, 5 months ago
John always knows how to say just the wrong thing!
MadCow
said, 5 months ago
@Nabuquduriuzhur
Don’t say that to my mom, she raised seven kids and it took way more than eight hours a day.
KasparV said, 5 months ago
@MadCow
You have to realize that Nabuquduriuzhur lives in his own “special” world.
psychlady said, 5 months ago
Yes, John, as usual, open mouth, insert foot!!!
cdward said, 5 months ago
I realize that this is from a different generation, but even my dad (now 80) worked his 8 hour shifts, then came home and worked several more hours on our house. Guys do not just come home and relax. In fact, before I go to work I’ve usually made breakfast and done the dishes.
SUSAN NEWMAN
said, 5 months ago
Here’s the perfect opportunity for Elly to dump that pot of hot whatever-it-is over John’s empty head!
Jean said, 5 months ago
why is John just leaning on the counter in panel 2 when he could take that basket from her and go put those clothes away so she can get onto some other “freedom”. I was a work outside the home mom and believe me it took about 14 to 16 hours a day, 8 spent outside the house and the rest spent making sure the house and children were taken care of.
Sierra said, 5 months ago
@Jean
That was me too!
Elsie Ross said, 5 months ago
I think this will all lead to a divorce a few years down the road. Art imitating life??
hcr1985 said, 5 months ago
I think working outside the home would produce more freedom,,,just a thought.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago
Lynn’s Notes:
One of the things I resented about working from home was the inability to get away from housekeeping. I was jealous of friends who would dress well, leave for work, and enter an environment devoid of kids, dish detergent, and the omnipresent whiff of laundry. I thought it would be wonderful to have a separate space to call my own, and to have adult conversation when I needed a break from it all. Interestingly, the friends whose work-space I envied, thought I was the one who had it made.