For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 30, 2024

Nope, Liz. Not a 14-year-old girl in a car with an 18-year-old. Ya know, he’s an adult? Same as your brother who’s in college? Your mom is right to say no way.

It’s not just the props- the bunny pj’s and the dolls- that make Elizabeth look like she’s eight in the last frame- the loss of eyeballs does, too. I had to look at the drawings for a while to figure out how she lost 6 years between the third and fourth frames.

She’s at that “in between” stage—no longer a child, but not yet a woman.

She will never let you be old enough for that

I bet it’s Matt Landry

My daughter is 42 and left home for good 19 years ago and I just got rid of her dolls and stuffed animals, except a couple she was really attached to…more for me than her.

Come on! What is wrong with that?! Ugh, why do comic strip mom have to be so strictly inflexible and unreasonable?

This is when I’m glad that we live so close to my girls’ high school. If they had a spare 1st period they could just walk to school. 2 blocks away.

If the boys my oldest daugher dated in high school saw the menagerie of stuffed animals she kept in her room, they’d have run in the opposite direction. The brown belt in Karate would have done it too.

Elly is right, Elizabeth.

“A spare first thing” — must be speaking Canadian, eh?

Nothing good can come from this arc.

Actually, you’re not — you just proved it with your non-action!

Sure Liz is old enough to take care of herself, that’s why she has stuffed animals & dolls!!!

Let me think about this one a minute. Elly doesn’t go to work until 10. Elizabeth doesn’t go to school until 10. Hmm.

I told my daughter she couldn’t car date until she had her license. She seemed relieved.

Ooga Farley!

Booga Farley!

Googa Farley!

Booga Farley!

Whether we want them to or not, kids will grow up. My granddaughter and I have a special bond and I confess to being much more protective of her than my grandsons. It was kind of bittersweet last night at a family gathering, to watch her with her first real boyfriend. She’s 16 and he’s 17 ( and a nice young man ). I realized, as her father has, that she’s growing up before our eyes.

You can only do so much to guide and protect your kids, and then pray, as you release them from the nest, that what you’ve done for them is enough.

My daughter has often told me that all the things I thought I’d done wrong in bringing her up were all the best lessons she’d learned.

I don’t think this ended well.Harmless,but not well/

Always study a stranger’s driving habits before you get into a car with them

Ah this looks like fun. Of course now we get all the life advice from FaceBook grandmas in the comment section, gee, what could go wrong ??? ;-) Happy Monday !

Don’t have to be at school until 10? What school where? Since when?

“A spare first thing”? In case her regular first thing goes flat?

Granted, I can remember my parents waking me up for school, and I’d babble incoherently, presumably because I was still dreaming or something. But she seems to be pivoting from her random word generator to a full on rationale for sleeping in, so maybe “a spare first thing” does have some meaning after all?

In the US, despite not having a 1st period class, she would have to check in to homeroom.

She doesn’t at be at school til 10?? I wished it worked that way when I was in high school.

Some schools don’t allow late arrival even if you have a free period, you have to go to the study hall and wait there.