Refresher: My Daughter Lied to Get a Classmate in Trouble

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Ron's daughter falsely accused a boy in her class of hitting her, and Ron would like Dr. Laura's advice on how to handle the situation. 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	Time now for a refresher from my Dr. Laura Call of the Day archives. And remember, you two can participate on my live radio program heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:16.8	On, welcome to the program. Hello, Dr. Laura. How are you today?
0:21.9	Good. What's up?
0:29.7	Good. Yes, ma'am. I am calling you because, as you said, I need clarity and I want to do the right thing.
0:35.8	So I have a situation, I have a situation or my wife and I have a situation with our daughter. She's 11 years old and in fifth grade.
0:39.6	And last Friday, she was caught in, well, being called may not be the right term.
0:47.6	She had told a lie on another one, her students, and said that he had hit her in the leg and had put a bruise on on the bottom of her leg.
0:57.0	And her teacher kind of went in a panic and took pictures of the bruise and sent the pictures to the assistant principal.
1:04.0	And they were going to begin the investigation and go back and look at the cameras and come to find out that the boy had not did that to her at all.
1:14.9	And when they started, when they started, how did she get the, how did she get the bruise?
1:20.5	She, her sport is baton. She's a, she's a baton twirler, and she got the bruise from the baton.
1:26.0	It's a very unforgiving sport. I i know i tried baton for a while i
1:31.4	kept hitting myself in the head so you know i understand that yes ma'am yes ma'am okay now is she
1:39.3	prone to lying or being dramatic or doing stuff to get attention or getting out of trouble?
1:46.0	So this is an unusual thing.
1:48.0	Absolutely, quite unusual. And like I said, I don't, maybe it was some sort of, some sort of,
1:55.0	divine intervention to make her tell the truth because she kept saying, don't call dad don't call my dad but it's all right to tell the principal which don't call my dad was the red flag with the teacher because she she's an otherwise very respectful child she's yes ma'am no ma'am yes sir no sir okay let me ask you a few questions few questions, ma'am, no ma'am. Yes, sir, no sir. Okay, let me ask you a few questions.
2:17.8	Few questions.
2:18.6	Yes, ma'am.
2:21.7	Two, in no important order.
2:24.2	They're both important to me.
2:26.1	Has she had any trouble with this boy?
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