Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 19, 2010

Sorry I missed my appointed rounds last, too tired again…

It’s your fault, for not doing the work for me!! Where is Hobbes, he can help, too!

Ya mom, they will keep you after school, and I’ll be stuck with the house work

How many parents do the work for the kid and how many teachers fall for it by giving the kid an outstanding mark when they know bleeep well whose effort and expertise they are grading?

Good morning all.

Somewhat late to the fracas about margueritem: universal chaos is not so bad when she is one of the first to post. May marg and all her friends be first in line here.

Also a bit late, many thanks to Margueritem for the Veterans Day post. It is highly appreciated by this ex-Navy man.

Now back to my lurking…

I wouldn’t push your luck too much, Calvin.

Glad all is well, Marg!

Impeccable logic

That’s how a kid tries laying the ol’ guilt trip.

And fails.

And becomes a candidate for the Darwin Award.

My teacher said to me, “This homework is below your usual standards. I need to talk to your father”.

I said,”But this time, my father did it for me”.

“…for not doing team work”.

It’s been a busy day and my granddaughter’s been up 7 times during the night so I’ll do my best with this comment!

I know the kid messed up but throw him a bone anyway Mom. What about giving him some newspaper to rip up, that’s how we did papermache in school? I remember you made the stuff you dunk it in out of flour and salt and something. I’d have to look it up on the internet. The last time I did papermache was with my son and Martha Stewart’s suggestion at Christmastime to make a snowman. You blew up a balloon and covered it with papermache and held onto the tie off end as you did it and when it was dry you popped it and you had snowballs. It was a hit so I did it again with my little Tiger Cubs in Boy Scouts.

Calvin will make a GREAT leader: he knows how to delegate the work and the blame.

Yep, Calvin’s a natural born politician. Creates a big mess, then blames the other party for it.

I wonder how Calvin figures that. You made your bed,, now you lie in it Calvin.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

Calvin is well on his way to eventually finding a job as a supervisor.

I wonder when the phenomenon of parents doing their kids’ assignments started. When I was in elementary school 35 years ago, it wouldn’t have occurred to anyone to ask their parents to help them, let alone to actually do it for them!

All Calvin has to do to create a desert scene is to fill the box with sand. All done!

Hey “scrabblefiend”

I was thinking along those lines but then I thought why not just an empty box and tell Ms. Wormwood This is a desert scene… After the big wind storm has blown all the sand away!

That used to be a joke for sure RCMinor

Back in the day, my parents would not have dreamt of doing the work for me or my brother. They took pity on my sister though.

My brother and I graduated university twice (each). My sister bombed out of community college in the first semester.

My wife has taken great pride in getting straight A’s for the second and third time, however.

At the time my son could not understand why I was so hard on him and his school work. He does now after he graduated in the top ten.

My daughter still has to learn the lesson, though she shows promise in areas where my wife has no expertise.

Go Mother Calvin !!!

@Dino-1, I remember making papier maché in elementary school. Flour, lots of salt, and water. I remember thinking that it would taste awful because there was so much salt in it.

We were making mountains in 3D. The individual mountains stood up from the paper, and between them there were valleys.

I don’t remember much more. It was a long time ago.

Stand firm, Mom!

My memory must be going, I think back on all that gooey stuff as fun.

Already majoring in advanced business techniques.

Calvin, this is why you never wait until the last minute to do your homework! If you had done it as soon as the teacher assigned it, then you could have forgotten about it until it was time to turn it in. Instead, you’re already a date late with it and now you’re running around in a panic like a chicken with its head cut off and expecting your mother to do it for you!!!

Stand firm, mom! This is the only way Calvin’s going to learn to pass or fail, not only in school but also in life … and that’s to do it on his own!

Calvin - fill the box with sand and put a bug in it. Project done, until the bug escapes from the box into the classroom. Just make it a big bug so everyone can find it. A psychiatrist could make a career out of analyzing this kid….

good job calv, you have got her to do it–maybe!

Gee, Mom is really being hard on Calvin. Sheesh! Does she really expect someone to do his own work? At the last minute??

If you can’t find sand, use sugar. Then it is sure to get bugs in it.

RinaFarina: I’m sure in our school Gary Swan tasted the mixture. He would eat the paste, Elmer’s glue, and clay in our classroom. He was the first class cut-up starting in kindergarden!

Sounds just like my house. But it’s the older adult that’s the child…

Mom has it filed under “paper” mache, there, Cal … wise up!