The point of this strip is that Hobbes visiting a zoo would be like humans visiting a prison. He would have been sad to see animals in cages, and animals, unlike imprisoned humans, have done nothing to deserve being locked up.
While John makes some valid points about the bigger problems in the world, he trivialized his daughter’s feelings. Being upset about her hair doesn’t mean she thinks the world revolves around her. A better solution, in addition to pointing out the more serious issues in the world, would be to get her an appontment at a nice hair salon so the cut could be fine tuned to be more flattering. Her self esteem as a growing teen is important to her mental health. Maturity will come later.
My husband willingly lets me make the decorating decisions. He doesn’t care what the house looks like as long as he’s comfortable. It bores him to look at furniture and paint colors.
Why is she picking up Elizabeth’s laundry? My kids were doing their own laundry at that age.