For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 22, 2015

Depends on the daycare… ours required documentation from a doctor stating the appropriate vaccinations were completed.

No, Lynn foresaw this moment 30+ years ago and drew the strip just so you would have something to complain about.

I never understood why you would work full-time to hand over all of your wages to pay somebody else to raise your kids. It is cheaper & more full-filling to stay at home & raise them until they hit school age. If you want a career, maybe you should put kids on hold. And get a cat, if you want convenience.

Is John talking about the expense of day care, or the expense to him to have a full time assistant? He probably hasn’t been paying Ellie, has he?

Lynn’s Notes:

“Brittany” is the name of one of my friends’ daughters. I knew her family would be pleasantly surprised when they saw it in the strip. Little things like this were a lot of fun. Later, the Scott family became five, as their other children, Bourton and Elly were born. I never put another Scott family name in the strip, but I suspect their daughter, Elly was named for Elly in the strip!

@janinabarnes & suevanv: so true, and I couldn’t put it better myself.

Expensive? Well, you could always stay home and be a mom.