I Want To Save My Struggling Son

Dr. Laura Call of the Day

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Dr. Laura shows Mary the importance of letting her son overcome his own struggles without mom's help. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on
0:08.9	serious xm. Triumph 111., welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi Dr. Laura, thanks for taking my call.
0:17.0	I'm very nervous to talk to you.
0:20.0	Please be gentle with me. I am worried you're going to eat me up and spit me out.
0:25.0	Okay then, maybe you don't want to do this call because that's always...
0:30.0	No, I do, I really do.
0:32.0	Because I need to hear it from you. Okay. All right I've listened to you for yours. My parents have used your advice and your sound advice and your wisdom to raise my siblings and me.
0:46.8	And now I need you to help me with my own 22 year old son that lives with us
0:51.6	and is struggling with his career goals or
0:54.3	lack thereof. I'm sorry he's how old? He's 22. I asked you that a second time. He's struggling with his career goals.
1:07.0	Everybody at 22 does that. That's not a sickness.
1:10.0	I know. sickness. I'm, I can't you just let him have his struggle?
1:17.7	My parents never checked in every day on my struggles. They raised me to face my struggles. They raised me to face my struggles.
1:27.0	Yeah. But they were my struggles. So let him have his struggles please. Stay out of it. Yeah, I guess I should. I just always felt like he needed extra help.
1:49.6	I don't care about your feelings and you, mother thinking he needs extra help has helped
1:56.2	create him think of himself as less than competent.
2:05.0	That makes sense. Because you decided he needed help.
2:08.0	Whereas I'm telling you, let him struggle.
2:11.0	How else is he going to become a man? I only watched it once but 40 years ago
2:17.0	There was a television series called MacGyver and this guy I don't even know what the plot was. Okay, and well you should have learned from him.
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