Dear LFTP: the paddling sorority
- Should a college woman join a legacy sorority that paddles members for discipline?
A letter addressed to 'Abby' rather than the show — Mike noted earlier that he wrote the Dear Abby-style letters — asks whether to join a legacy sorority that paddles members for discipline despite family pressure to uphold tradition. The hosts are unanimous and loud: no paddling of nineteen-year-olds, no matter who holds the paddle; one calls it the childification of a culture where people do not grow up until fifty. The Secular answer calls paddling assault with a weapon and cites a young man's hazing death in Florida, and the segment closes with a college-dorm story: a host whose rule-breaking made his dorm parents weep and resign, landing him on probation.
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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.