TED TALK WITH UNCLE TED · 7 September 2026
Should my younger sister come and stay with us?
Exhausted after childbirth, Diana wants her teenage sister to help with the baby, but her husband objects.
Dear Uncle Ted,
I gave birth three months ago. The kid is always screaming, the house help is moody and my hubby is driving me crazy with constant demands for sex.
I want my younger sister, who sat her KCSE exam last year, to come and help out with the baby, but my husband wants none of it. He complains that our one-bedroom house is too small and that, in any case, I kicked out his kid brother—forgetting that the ill-mannered tout of a boy impregnated my cousin. What should I do?
Uncle Ted replies
If the baby is such a nuisance, why not abandon it in a matatu or simply wake up one morning and melt into thin air? Leave that man to sort out his mess. Mbona hakutumia condom?
Besides, you have a moody house help. You honestly want to add a hormone-infested 18-year-old young woman with a firmer behind and breasts into a tiny house? A woman who reminds your husband how you looked ten years ago?
Come slowly, my dear. If that young thing steps into your house, there might be another set of twins to deal with, only this time you won’t be the mother, and the father won’t be your husband’s ill-mannered tout of a brother!