COTD Refresher: What should Jean do about her daughter's rudeness?

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🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Jean's adult daughter has started eating like a complete pig. How should Jean deal with it? 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.
0:04.6	Remember you can hear my live radio program weekdays, 2 to 5 p.m.
0:09.9	Eastern time on Serious XM Triumph 2011.
0:14.0	Dean, welcome to the program.
0:18.0	Thank you so much Dr Laura.
0:21.0	I'm calling because I have a 20 year old daughter I have two children actually but the one I'm calling about my 20 year old daughter that when we were raising them we definitely emphasize table manners around the family dinner table and it was kind of We definitely to be there but you know at the point was I wanted them to have good
0:44.3	really knowledge good knowledge of table manners and now that my daughter has gone
0:48.4	away to college in another city and she I see her very infrequently when she's around like we were around a little bit at Christmas.
0:58.0	She has developed this habit of eating absolutely like a pig. It is just beyond disgusting.
1:06.0	Is this in your house you mean? We were actually on a trip and several restaurants. It was just her and I on a trip during the holidays and
1:16.6	I only had four days with her and I kind of hate myself that I was nagging at her so much,
1:22.4	but we were at these restaurants and it was just, it was the
1:25.8	word of it was painful. It was disgusting. What did you do? That was so, can you please describe to me the actual behaviors?
1:36.0	Okay, she uses two fingers from her from her left hand when she's got her fork in her right hand and she shovels the food on with the two fingers so her fingers are constantly in the food and then she licks the fingers and then if she likes the sauce on the plate or something, she'll take those same fingers and
1:56.2	lick up and wipe up the sauce on the plate and then lick the fingers again.
2:00.9	And then she has trouble with like her wisdom teeth. She needs to get them out. So I guess food gets caught in there. So she'll take her whole hand and she'll stick her whole hand into her mouth to try to dislodge food.
2:13.4	Do you think she's mentally ill, stupid, lazy, or hostile?
2:18.8	Hostel?
2:19.8	Me too. I think she's too it on purpose. Now, why do you think she's doing it on purpose?
2:26.6	Now, why do you think she might do that on purpose?
2:30.6	Well, I truly think that the issues are deeper than, you know, I guess...
2:38.3	Good, I'm asking you what they are, so tell me what they are instead of describing
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