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I'm going to open the program today reading a letter from one of you, probably listening right now,

because I thought it would be useful for you to see how other people struggle because it's a normal

part of life and there is no change without resistance, it's struggle and I get all of that.

But I think it's really helpful when you hear other people doing the things you're struggling with.

You know, it helps all of us.

Hi, Dr. Laura.

I wanted to say thank you in two areas.

One, I called about six months ago, and you helped me see a situation in black and white

when I saw it as a gray area.

A person we had gotten to know over several years continued to let her

son hit my children. I remember this call. When the pattern was continuing over months after I brought

it up several times, she always laughed it off and used psychobabble to justify him being a brat.

Please do a segment on the horrors of so-called gentle parenting and parents who read too many parenting books.

I found out she had told a mutual friend who I introduced her to that she said my boys were sissies.

Now, I don't know if you've ever seen four boys, one years old, three, five, and seven in a room together, but they are anything but sissies.

I always say we should pad our walls.

You ask why I would let my children be around someone

who let their children hit them.

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