Calvin’s words in the last panel just hurts as an adult. Calvin doesn’t know that we adults can’t make everything alright. We can try, but more often than not fail.
There’s a Bluey episode I just recently watched with my son, it’s called Copycat that deals with this same topic. Bluey deals with it by modeling her dads behavior with the same outcome. I can’t remember how Calvin ends up dealing with it, but seem to remember it being similar. And that’s really what our jobs are as parents; modeling as many behaviors in as ethical a way we can, and hope that our kids figure the rest out from there.
Calvin’s words in the last panel just hurts as an adult. Calvin doesn’t know that we adults can’t make everything alright. We can try, but more often than not fail.
There’s a Bluey episode I just recently watched with my son, it’s called Copycat that deals with this same topic. Bluey deals with it by modeling her dads behavior with the same outcome. I can’t remember how Calvin ends up dealing with it, but seem to remember it being similar. And that’s really what our jobs are as parents; modeling as many behaviors in as ethical a way we can, and hope that our kids figure the rest out from there.