Tony goes head-to-head with sixteen-year-old Tina when he learns she's played hooky for two weeks from the new private school she detests. Also, the technophobic Tony faces a computer crisis when his column must be e-mailed to his editor at the eleventh hour. Meanwhile, eleven-year-old Mickey drives her loving dad to distraction with her neuroses and hypochondria, and her doting grandfather gives lip service to strict parenting.