The Worst Episodes of Children Ruin Everything

With work keeping him busy, James feels even more disconnected from Felix. When Felix shares a personal secret with Astrid, James goes too far trying to learn the secret himself.

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During a family emergency, with both James and Astrid busy at work, they need to rethink their childcare plan.

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James and Astrid attempt to get some alone time, but the kids keep getting in the way. Meanwhile, Dawn and Bo renew their vows.

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Astrid and James plan a night out to celebrate Astrid's recent win at work. With help from Dawn, they're able to book the highly sought-after neighborhood babysitter, Jeffrey. Everything is going perfectly– the kids love Jeffrey; he's getting them to clean the house and even teaching them French. But when Viv's crush on Jeffrey threatens to ruin everything, Astrid and James struggle to take control of the situation while also taking Viv's big feelings into account.

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Astrid and James get some much-needed adult time when they convince Nisha to take the kids for the night. The parents night gets complicated, however, when a small lie grows out of control.

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While Astrid is away on a business trip, James struggles to keep the Tooth Fairy tradition alive.

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Feeling like parenthood has eroded her friendships, Astrid jumps at a playdate, and James attempts to keep his own commitments.

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Between Astrid and her sister Dawn’s kids, their mother Nisha is feeling burnt out on babysitting duties. When she announces her retirement from free childcare, it falls to Astrid and Dawn to try and get her back on board for watching their kids. While Astrid scrambles for childcare, James faces a growing conflict between their two oldest kids, Felix and Viv, as an opportunity presents itself for one of them to be the face of a new marketing campaign at James’s work.

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With free box seat tickets to a Raptor’s game from Fintekölay in hand, Astrid and James are hesitant to discipline Felix and Viv when they slack on their chores. Punishing the kids would mean missing the game and that’s something they want to avoid at all costs. But after the kids get caught in an escalating lie, Astrid and James realize that maybe their discipline style can use a little work.

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Astrid and James struggle to find something to talk about other than their kids while having dinner at a fancy restaurant. Feeling the pressure of keeping up with the exciting lives of their family and co-workers, Astrid and James regale each other with exaggerated stories from their week.

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After Felix gets in trouble for defacing school property, Felix teacher Mr. Dongall makes James feel like an inattentive parent and James goes to great lengths to prove the teacher wrong. Meanwhile, Astrid insists on handling the fallout from Leonard most recent campaign gaffe.

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James and Astrid try to have a nice family dinner to celebrate a special occasion, but their young children make it challenging.

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Pressured to not look "like a dad" for an upcoming work event, James takes his kids out on a shopping trip. Seán Cullen guest stars.

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Frustrated over their cluttered home full of kids' stuff, James and Astrid decide to purge.

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Following embarrassing run-ins with her boss and co-workers, Astrid feels on the back foot and disconnected from her younger co-workers. Astrid realizes her best move might be to attend a drink night with the rest of her team.

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With long days at the office, Astrid cannot shake the feeling that she is missing out on key moments with their kids. Astrid convinces James that what the family needs is an adventure together.

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With a move out of the city and their home of a decade looming, Astrid and James look back on when they first moved in. With Astrid set to give birth to her first child, her mother and sister do not see eye to eye on Astrid's birth plan.

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While waiting on the results of an evaluation for Viv, Astrid and James feel the pressure of figuring out how to best help their possibly neurodivergent child. But when Viv’s new doctor, guest star Emma Hunter, rubs Astrid the wrong way, Astrid tries coming up with her own strategies for Viv. Meanwhile, at Gero’s Grocery, the enlistment of Fintekoäly – a tech company hired to automate checkouts at Gero’s – makes Marla uneasy.

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With a new baby refusing to sleep and a return to the office looming for Astrid, she and James consider desperate measures.

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With their kids’ faces always buried in their screens, Astrid and James enact a weekend screen ban, but when Astrid inadvertently takes on an assignment at work and James gets put in charge of his company’s social media accounts, leading by example becomes more complicated than they originally thought. In a bid to get some work done, James takes the older kids to the park to distract them while he sneaks in some social media updates and Astrid stays home to put the baby down for a nap before launching into her own assignment. But without the hypnotic power of electronics, Astrid and James are in for an uphill battle.

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After the site of the future World Cup Village is closed due to goose poop contamination, Astrid is in charge of bringing the issue to the World Cup Committee. But after a disastrous meeting with Councillor Flynn, head of the committee, and an embarrassing practice round with her family, Astrid’s confidence takes a nosedive. Meanwhile, James is determined to teach Viv how to ride a bike in one afternoon.

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When Felix shrinks all his clothes doing laundry for the first time, Astrid and James are forced to buy him a new wardrobe. But shopping for clothes isn’t so easy now that Felix is developing his own style. On top of everything, Astrid and James wrestle with societal norms when Viv wants to start wearing crop tops. At Gero’s Grocery, Marla is working on a plan to start a fast fashion line.

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When Astrid hears about Dawn's spontaneous trip to South America, she is determined to find a little spontaneity in her own life. With Astrid's convincing, she and James play hooky from work and buy tickets to a weekday matinee performance of Jagged Little Pill, the musical. But their plans are up in the air after getting a phone call from Viv's school saying she’s sick and needs to be sent home.

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Astrid wonders if she's responsible for passing neurodivergent genes on to her daughter, Viv. So, when Astrid and James are consistently late for Viv's early morning meetings with the school counselor, Astrid is determined to get Viv to school on time in order for Viv to get the support she needs. As a family, they come up with a time management plan to get out of the house on time, but something always takes them off track. At Gero's Grocery, James gets hit with some unexpected news.

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After an unexpected change at Gero’s, James tries to busy himself with fixing a broken toilet. Astrid thinks she’s due for a raise.

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