The spiritual battle of teen screen time
- What does a healthy relationship with your phone look like for teens and adults?
Prompted by a Christianity Today piece on the spiritual battle of teen screen time, the hosts talk with the two girls about phones. One host frames Luddite tendencies in the room; Emma recounts a two-week stretch with her phone kept downstairs that changed her patience with siblings; the girls push back that phones serve real creative work like writing and music. The room cites Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's report on social media and child mental health, Montana's TikTok ban, and lands on a signature line: the phone is the new drunkenness.
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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.
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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?
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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.