A) you are just sitting in a chair, thinking about how guilty you feel, instead of doing something productive while there are no kids around allegedly preventing you from doing something productive?
B) that your husband is paying for daycare for apparently no reason at all except that you need time to sit in a chair and feel guilty about it?
"Daycare is a fact of life..." for double-income families. Like "children are a fact of life..." for people who choose to have them. Once again, we have Elly pretending to have no agency. Sorry, but no. Your husband makes plenty of money for you to be a SAHM. Your kid is in daycare not out of necessity, but because you're a miserable lazy brat. Just OWN IT.
I love that cover- "mom" and "dad" being twee with each other while their baby bawls its head off in the distance. Stop congratulating each other on being mammals and get to work comforting your offspring, you numbties!
Elly thinks that since nobody deliberately shoved April's head under water, she shouldn't feel like this. The defunct outreach group that commissioned Hate Hurts You had an earlier gem that's germane: "Stand Not Idly By."
Because the pretentious twerp thinks that people will think less of her if she knows anything about her children. I like the woman her acolyte Jan Eliot created better. She thinks that if she cures her oldest child of being normal, her husband won't get blowed up by a roadside bomb in Iraqistan.
To paraphrase Soundwave, crazy widow, superior, lazy trophy wife, inferior.
Also, we know why April gets clingy and stays a kid so long that when being told not to make Elly sad about Kortney makes her rebel but it's a mystery to both Elly and Lynn why Lizzie is clingy or why she favors John:
Elly is the same nitwit who thinks evil, conflict causing male pediatricians give her the wrong, child-defending answer when they explain what colic is. She thinks that pre-verbal children are out to get her. She's going to explode because believing in accidents and unintentional harm means that she's not allowed to have feelings.
Once again, what a reasonable parent would laugh at causes the Pattersons to go berserk.
I remember this one in particular because Elizabeth is hiding in fear from her mother. While Lynn Johnston was very particular about only showing Michael getting spanked as a punishment and never the girls, you have to wonder what Elly did to Elizabeth that would provoke such a reaction.
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And here is the alleged irony:
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Why do you feel guilty, Elly? Is it because
A) you are just sitting in a chair, thinking about how guilty you feel, instead of doing something productive while there are no kids around allegedly preventing you from doing something productive?
B) that your husband is paying for daycare for apparently no reason at all except that you need time to sit in a chair and feel guilty about it?
"Daycare is a fact of life..." for double-income families. Like "children are a fact of life..." for people who choose to have them. Once again, we have Elly pretending to have no agency. Sorry, but no. Your husband makes plenty of money for you to be a SAHM. Your kid is in daycare not out of necessity, but because you're a miserable lazy brat. Just OWN IT.
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Admitting that she's the sort of idiot we see on the cover of the second pre-Patterson collection:
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I love that cover- "mom" and "dad" being twee with each other while their baby bawls its head off in the distance. Stop congratulating each other on being mammals and get to work comforting your offspring, you numbties!
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Elly thinks that since nobody deliberately shoved April's head under water, she shouldn't feel like this. The defunct outreach group that commissioned Hate Hurts You had an earlier gem that's germane: "Stand Not Idly By."
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No amount of being clingy will distract Elly from her make-work chores and force her to interact with her child. NONE.
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Because the pretentious twerp thinks that people will think less of her if she knows anything about her children. I like the woman her acolyte Jan Eliot created better. She thinks that if she cures her oldest child of being normal, her husband won't get blowed up by a roadside bomb in Iraqistan.
To paraphrase Soundwave, crazy widow, superior, lazy trophy wife, inferior.
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Also, we know why April gets clingy and stays a kid so long that when being told not to make Elly sad about Kortney makes her rebel but it's a mystery to both Elly and Lynn why Lizzie is clingy or why she favors John:
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Once again, what a reasonable parent would laugh at causes the Pattersons to go berserk.
It was an accident that happened while your daughter was trying to help you, Elly. Get some therapy.
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Elly is the same nitwit who thinks evil, conflict causing male pediatricians give her the wrong, child-defending answer when they explain what colic is. She thinks that pre-verbal children are out to get her. She's going to explode because believing in accidents and unintentional harm means that she's not allowed to have feelings.
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Once again, what a reasonable parent would laugh at causes the Pattersons to go berserk.
I remember this one in particular because Elizabeth is hiding in fear from her mother. While Lynn Johnston was very particular about only showing Michael getting spanked as a punishment and never the girls, you have to wonder what Elly did to Elizabeth that would provoke such a reaction.
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Stupid strip speaks for stupid self.
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