Family Fuckery

A five-year-old told his teacher he was going to rip her face off and eat it. She said, "Do you want salt with that?" That's the episode.A teacher wrote in anonymously, because legally she can't tell ...

1 Okt 10min

Three weeks into the school year I got an email saying my daughter was being switched to another class. So I went into that school like I was about to personally replace the Ministry of Education. No ...

28 Sep 11min

A woman writes in about a husband who has appointed himself Head of Loss Prevention for their marriage. He supervises her at the self-checkout. He audits the grocery bill. He announces to an entire re...

24 Sep 11min

Priya has a best friend who has cancelled on her eleven times this year. Eleven. Not in a lifetime — since January. The text lands about ninety minutes before, and it always says the same thing: ugh, ...

21 Sep 11min

A friend texted Joseph in the middle of recording to say that getting old is a bitch. Not the knees. Not the back. The lecturing. Her kids are in their thirties. She is not old — she has just been rec...

17 Sep 11min

Two performers, one family. The guilt-trip artist, who never asks for anything directly because a sigh does the work of a sentence. And the family martyr, who does everything for everyone and makes ab...

14 Sep 16min

Kelsey from Cleveland writes in because her seven-year-old daughter was the only child in her entire class not invited to a birthday party. The only one. When she asked the other mother what happened,...

10 Sep 15min

A bonus one, because this could not wait until December. Or October. Or whenever we have all agreed the year is allowed to start.It is September. Joseph is in Costco on Highway 7 buying sunscreen, in ...

9 Sep 9min