Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for December 30, 1997
Transcript:
Mom: It's up to you, Cathy. You can go home and spend New Year's eve sitting all alone in your cold, empty condominium...or you can stay here with the two people who love you more that life itself -- who consider you the breathtaking, brilliant focal point around whom the entire universe revolves! Keeping in mind that, if you opt to go home, your father and I will spend New Year's weeping and wondering how we could have failed so miserably as parents. Cathy: I think I'll stay here. Mom: From the toddler manual: "offer a choice".
Yeah, that’s not at all manipulative