Children Ruin Everything

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

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

Despite getting sick, Astrid and James have to organize a kids birthday party, and Felix seems to be growing up faster than Astrid thought.

Following a brush with death, James and Astrid realize they need to make a death plan, including finding legal guardians for Felix and Viv.

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

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.

Astrid and her sister suspect their mom is hiding something from them. They begin snooping around. Their mother appears to be dating someone new. A request to launch a new product at work leads James to agree to meet with Ennis cousin.

When Astrid and James’ daughter Viv answers on a school assignment that she is Indigenous instead of her actual heritage, Indian, Astrid begins to feel guilty that she has not properly taught Viv about their family history. But as Astrid tries to share their cultural heritage with Viv, she quickly realizes she may not be well versed in it either. As Astrid struggles to impart their shared past on her daughter, James struggles with a growing sense that in spite of being a natural, their son Felix might not love baseball the way James did growing up.

Getting away from their family for a night might prove to be harder than expected as Astrid and James try to divide and conquer at bedtime.

When an unexpected expense puts Astrid and James over their budget, they must attempt to tighten their belts while still keeping a promise.

Reaching a tipping point, Astrid and James need to vent about their growing list of grievances toward one another.

With potential buyers coming to look at their house sooner than they expected, Astrid and James try to rally the kids to clean and get out to the park before their open house begins, but their daughter Viv takes a vow to not ever leave their home.

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.

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.

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.

When Astrid hears about Dawns spontaneous trip to South America, she is determined to find a little spontaneity in her own life. With Astrids 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 Vivs school saying she’s sick and needs to be sent home.

Astrid wonders if shes responsible for passing neurodivergent genes on to her daughter, Viv. So, when Astrid and James are consistently late for Vivs 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 Geros Grocery, James gets hit with some unexpected news.

Astrid and James realize they are at the dawning of a new era when Felix starts showing signs of pre-teen rebellion; James tries to ease tensions after he rejects Bos job offer.

Astrid and James question whether they’re raising monsters when Felix and Viv refuse to pitch in around the house.

When James finds an old game console, he and Astrid attempt to find free time to play. But a bedtime routine threatens to eat up all the time between when the kids are supposed to be in bed and when Astrid and James have to go to bed themselves.

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.

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

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.

Astrid and James worry that Viv may be too weird to make friends. When they encourage Viv to invite some classmates over for a sleepover, they learn that the only thing scarier than their own children are other peoples children.

Astrid leaves no stone unturned as she tries to find her phone before she misses a prize-winning call from a radio station; James and Ennis are given their first task as co-heads of GOBO but have a falling out over their work styles.