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The Dr. Laura Podcast

#4 - Top 40 Countdown '23: How Do I Handle These Friendships?

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Stacy's daughter had a falling out with her school friends, leaving Stacy feeling unsure of how to proceed in her relationships with their mothers. 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

Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious xm triumph 11.

0:11.0

Stacy, welcome to the program.

0:14.0

Hi, I was going to ask you a question about how do you handle relationships between mom, friends when your middle school child is no longer friends with the group.

0:27.0

Okay, I must admit I didn't follow that, so tell me the problem more directly. The problem there is that I have a middle schooler who was friends with three other girls and the three other girls they kind of all hung out during their activity together and now

0:44.8

my daughter definitely made a mistake and did something she shouldn't have done and she

0:50.0

says the policy immediately right after. What was... And what was that she did that she did she shouldn't have done?

0:57.6

She cures something at them when she in anger because they were making fun of her.

1:04.0

Through something at all three of them.

1:07.5

What did she throw at all three of them?

1:09.0

She splashed water at them, so she threw water.

1:15.0

They don't want to be friends with her because she splashed them with water.

1:21.0

Yeah, and she, they don't want to be fit and they make fun of her now and

1:27.6

no you said they made fun of her already and she splashed water. Yes. And now it's just continuing and now it's gone on some

1:37.3

months and I had been good friends with the parents and now it's such a struggle because I don't like the way they're treating my daughter so I don't

1:47.0

how to handle that relationship. Fun of her? I mean what's to make fun of?

1:53.0

They caddily, like, you know, whisper behind her, like if she comes by them, they walk away, run away, like they don't want her

2:02.3

join any circle at all.

2:06.0

Okay, you really believe this is all over splash water?

2:12.0

No, I think they probably just had been not wanting to be friends with her anymore and this is the way the kids are reacting to

2:18.0

What do you think is behind that?

2:28.0

Well, my daughter is special need. She's on spectrum. So she's unique. She's different.

2:31.0

And she had been friends with several of them from school

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