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The Dr. Laura Podcast

#17 - Top 40 Countdown '23: My Teen is Way Off Track

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Melissa is upset that her 16-year-old son is lying, stealing and smoking pot, but Dr. Laura thinks it may be Melissa's parenting that's off track. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:12.4

Melissa, welcome to the program. on Sirius XM Triumph 111.

0:13.0

Melissa, welcome to the program.

0:15.0

Hi, Dr Laura, thank you for taking my call today.

0:18.0

Thank you.

0:19.0

Are you able to hear me all right?

0:22.0

Yeah, I hear you fine, yeah.

0:24.0

Okay.

0:25.0

Reason for my call, get straight to it.

0:27.0

I am 27 married to my husband for a small 11 years now.

0:32.0

We've been together 17. One son together, he is 13. And you know, I thought

0:39.6

I was doing everything right, but then he was getting exposed to public and I didn't do

0:46.0

something right somewhere along the ring and he is now using marijuana and

0:51.2

feeling and lying.

0:54.2

And it's just not the child that I meant to have.

0:57.0

So we've done, or I meant to bring up, I mean,

1:01.3

we've done, we've grounded him, we've done we've grounded him we had nothing he has been made to do chores including

1:08.4

so what's he upset about what is he upset about?

1:13.0

Well today he's upset that I took his marijuana bait pin thing and it's home.

1:18.0

That's not what I mean.

1:21.0

I know you're pissed off at the detail, but I'm trying to get you to move the camera back.

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