Oh hello there and happy holidays!

If you're like me or mailbox and inbox are beginning to fill with the obligatory year

and updates from family and friends.

Exotic vacations, fulfilling careers, the accomplishments of so many perfect children.

Ah, it is the season!

And so you've sent us some of your favourite holiday newsletters so that we might have some

festive fun.

And since invocations have been changed of course, because if there's one thing I've

learned in all my years, it's that there's always room to read between the lines.

And chances are, it's a wonderful lie.

Happy holidays everyone!

I'm Ashley Flowers.

I'm Holly Loren.

Greg Hess.

And today I have a letter from a new parent.

I know that you guys don't have kids but have you ever tried to give anyone advice when

they're a new parent?

Oh good Lord, I have three siblings, they all have kids and I have learned the hard

way you can't say.

No, no!

I try to give passive aggressive parenting advice all the time to my friends because I'm

always like, don't you remember what it was like when kids used to say please and thank

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