Dear LFTP: the LED light-up shoes letter
- Was he wrong to ask a four-year-old to stop stomping her light-up shoes at a late-night performance?
A host reads a second Dear LFTP letter: at a sold-out 9:15 PM performance, a four-year-old's LED shoes flashed every time she stomped, distracting the writer in the dark venue; he asked her gently to stop, she obliged, then the family left and the father snapped 'she's [bleeping] four.' The hosts debate whether it was a movie, a Jay Z concert, or a boring late orchestra show; conclude the dad was out of line but the writer should have addressed the parent, not the child — 'an adult problem' — or simply let it go; and joke about Taylor Swift concerts, the fourth oboe, and passing notes at the 'passive aggressive store.' The 'secular answer': he did nothing wrong and couldn't have handled it better; the father's vulgarity was uncalled for.
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Dear LFTP: Champ the untrained dog and holding boundaries with your son
- How do I handle my son bringing his untrained dog Champ on our weekend grandson visits?
Mike reads the second letter: the writer hosts weekend grandson visits where her son Dennis brings Champ, an untrained destructive puppy that runs wild, barks, and digs.
From No. 586 · Nothing Personal
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Dear LFTP: wife mocks husband's bladder problem in public
- How should I respond when my wife mocks me and my bladder problem in public?
Mike reads a letter from a man married three years whose wife calls him vulgar names in public and makes his bladder-control problem into comedy.
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Dear LFTP: the birthday invitations
- Should parents be allowed to send birthday invitations to school when only select students are invited?
Mike reads the second letter: the parent of a special-needs pre-K child saw a Facebook group post exposing that her daughter was excluded from a birthday party.
From No. 574 · Starring Ted Danson as Joab
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Dear LFTP: Cindy's baby name ideas
- What should I do about my friend's terrible baby name choices?
Mike reads a letter from Dave about his longtime friend Cindy, six months pregnant, who keeps proposing names like chlamydia, bidet, chalet, and cliche because they sound pretty regardless of meaning.