Parenting
393 conversations where the hosts get into parenting.
393 conversations
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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.
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Dear LFTP: friend mistreats her stepson
- How do I confront my friend about mistreating her stepson while maintaining the relationship?
Mike reads a Dear LFTP letter from someone whose friend Sandra belittles her 14-year-old stepson and favors her four-year-old, asking how to raise the concern while keeping the friendship.
From No. 560 · Chill Out
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Dear LFTP: mom who treats her daughter as confidante
- How should a high-school senior set boundaries with a mother who treats her as a confidante?
Mike (speaker-3) reads a Dear LFTP letter from a high-school senior whose mother confides adult problems in her — family tensions, church conflicts, workplace cheating — making their relationship one-sided and exhausting, while refusing therapy (seg-00440 to seg-00447).
From No. 559 · 3 Songwriters Walk Into a Show
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Dear LFTP: Kurt and Jared, the feuding comedian brothers
- Dear LFTP: How should we handle our two grown sons' year-long feud?
Mike reads a Dear LFTP letter from parents of three grown sons: middle son Kurt (29) and younger son Jared (26) are in a year-long conflict after both took up stand-up comedy, with name-calling and holiday boycotts.
From No. 556 · A Christian Mid-Life Crisis
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Dear LFTP: should we tell Julia about the affair?
- Our friend is having an affair with our best friend's husband — should we tell her?
A listener letter: their friend Carrie revealed she has been having an affair with her best friend Julia's husband for years; their kids are best friends and take family vacations together.
From No. 545 · By Invitation Only
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Dear LFTP: a son's Taiwanese wife
- My son married a woman from Taiwan whom I dislike and have nothing in common with; what should I do?
Mike (speaker-2) reads a Dear LFTP letter from a parent whose son married a woman from Taiwan: she is sweet but the writer calls her 'uncultured,' dislikes her housekeeping, cooking, English, and dress, and says they are never invited over.
From No. 537 · The Bible Confuseth
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Am I the Donkeys Behind? The father-in-law's free house
- Am I the donkey's behind for handing the house decisions back to my father-in-law?
- Should the couple take the free house and stick it out with the controlling father-in-law?
The guest reads the second letter: a generous father-in-law with 'the a-hole gene' bought the neighboring house for the couple, put his and the husband's names on the title, then…
From No. 536 · The Olympic Supper Club
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Dear LFTP: the new stepmother's pushy parenting advice
- How should a new mother handle a new stepmother's pushy and dangerous parenting advice?
Ben reads a Dear LFTP letter from a new mother whose father just remarried: her new stepmother, who claims to have been a nurse, pushes parenting advice that contradicts the CDC…
From No. 535 · Solo Contendere
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Dear LFTP: "Son, not friend"
- How do I get my mom to treat me like a son instead of a best friend?
Mike reads a letter from a nearly-30-year-old man whose mother texts him through the workday about her struggles and furniture picks, treating him like a best friend instead of a son; he dreads her messages.
From No. 534 · The Antagonistic Bison
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Dear LFTP: divorced mom annoyed her sons are going to their father's wedding
- What impact will my ex-husband's wedding have on me and my sons, and how should I handle it?
Mike reads a Dear LFTP letter from a divorced mother whose ex-husband is engaged; their sons, 23 and 20, are going to the wedding in four months, and she is annoyed and unsure how it will affect her.
From No. 531 · Just For The Taste Of It
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Dear LFTP: the Patzilla nickname
- My sister keeps calling my daughter 'Patzilla' after I asked her to stop - how should I proceed?
Dear LFTP: a listener's sister nicknamed her daughter Patricia 'Patzilla' (Patricia + Godzilla), stopped when asked, then resumed; the mother is hurt and asks how to proceed.
From No. 530 · Know Self Control
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Dear LFTP: the difficult son and the defensive husband — 'evil advice'
- How should I handle my husband blaming our 26-year-old son for every problem in our marriage?
A Dear LFTP letter from a 30-year wife: her husband blames their 26-year-old son Isaac for every problem in the marriage, listens to no one, gets defensive, and she is caught in the middle.
From No. 522 · Biking with Billy Shatner
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Dear LFTP: blended-family chores standoff
- Am I wrong to defend my son in the chores conflict with my new husband?
A newly married listener asks whether she is wrong to defend her nineteen-year-old son, who works full time and studies part time, against her new husband's expectation that he do more chores.
From No. 518 · Jesus Blocked the Jukebox
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Dear LFTP: mom's annoying friend
- How do I make my mom's annoying friend go away?
A listener hates their mom's friend, who calls nonstop even at dinner, and tried blocking her number on mom's phone.
From No. 516 · Pastor Rico Suave
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Dear LFTP: the $900 Taylor Swift ticket
- Am I wrong to think my neighbor was not acting as a good friend by selling my 15-year-old a $900 Taylor Swift ticket?
A letter writer says a friend and neighbor sold her 15-year-old daughter a Taylor Swift ticket for $900 after buying it for $300, and wonders if she is wrong to think of the woman differently now.
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Dear LFTP: raising the village without sacrificing the kids
- Should I move my daughters away from my manipulative nephew to protect them?
A writer raising her two daughters alongside her sister and the sister's 10-year-old son sees abusive patterns from the boy's absent father showing up in the nephew, and now in her own seven-year-old's treatment of her six-year-old.
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Suffering, character, and the weed-whacking analogy
- Is suffering and going through hard things worth the good that comes out of it?
The host engages Emma's core doubt: is suffering worth the good that comes out of it? God isn't buying perseverance by hurting people — human suffering is reality, and he can use it for good; it's more call to repentance than punitive lesson.
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Dear LFTP: the mean neighborhood girl
- How do I ask the mean neighborhood girl to leave without seeming like a bully?
A mother asks how to ask a mean neighborhood girl to leave without seeming like a bully. The hosts advise against vindictive parenting, encourage treating the girl with the same…
From No. 505 · Because of Fussy and Fuzzy
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Dear LFTP: the milquetoast boyfriends
- How can I be less critical of my daughter's milquetoast boyfriends, and how do I respond tactfully when she asks my impression?
A listener writes asking for an attitude adjustment: their athletic, type-A daughter in her thirties dates men the parent calls 'wussy, milquetoast, dead-fish-handshake…
From No. 501 · All Five Sentences
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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.
From No. 498 · The Tennessee Birdwalk
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Fear, guilt, self-deprecation, and identity
- How should Christians handle guilt and self-deprecation without excusing sin?
The room digs into why failure over little things feels crushing: self-imposed expectations versus rightful ones, and the guilt that follows addiction relapses.
From No. 498 · The Tennessee Birdwalk