Welcome to Dear Prudence, I'm your Prudence,

Jene Desmond Harris.

Today we'll be answering letters about when to quote unquote cancel a bad boss, what to do when it feels

like nobody cares about spreading germs anymore, and whether daycare and slumber parties

are sending kids into trauma.

Here to help me out is Ellie Mistahl, an attorney and writer who's the nation's justice

correspondent.

He's the author of the New York Times Best Seller,

Allow me to retort a Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution.

And I've been following him in his work

for so many years since he wrote for Above the Law

when I was a miserable law firm attorney so maybe

that will come up maybe not either way thank you for all your work and thank you for

being here thank you for having me Janay I am so excited to be here because, you know, if you're a lawyer, you like giving some some unsolicited advice, right? Like, the advice that they solicit from you are usually by like impossibly rich people with impossibly first world

problems that's what you got to pay me for but for this this is just free stuff

and I'm happy to participate and you can just say whatever you want and be irresponsible and no one can disbar you or anything.

Exactly. Don't have to follow the Sydney Powell rules today.

So before we get started, I want to give you a chance to give our listeners one piece of unsolicited advice.

Yes, so usually I just go with don't ever go to law school, which is true, but has the kind of limited purpose.

So what I would like to lead with today is argue often, especially with your friends,

especially with your spouses.

Like you don't have to be mean and you know,

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