Dr. Laura Has Been Warning Parents for Years

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🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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"Dr. Laura Has Been Warning Parents for Years: Get Your Children off Social Media" - Listen to my Morning Monologue: I’m sharing my take on pressing issues, enlightening research on human behavior, answering questions I get by email, and my favorite, most instructive interactions with callers. Everything you’ll hear is designed to help you become a better spouse, parent, family member, co-worker, friend, and human being. It’s the free therapy you need! Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:18.6	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triamp and connect with me 24-7 at
0:26.6	Dr.ora.com.
0:28.4	Dan and I communicate a lot.
0:33.0	We text back and forth like two crazy people.
0:37.0	Because we have a lot to discuss with the program
0:39.6	and everything. And every now and then, which is pretty often, he gets irate about something
0:47.3	and sends me a long text about it. And this time in particular, because it's a subject that I have been brow-beating parents
0:58.7	about for 30 years, 20 years, 10 years, last minute, forever,
1:05.9	I said, write it up, let's put it on our Facebook, ironically, and other social fronts,
1:13.7	Dr.lora.com, substack, whatever the hell. And I'm going to read it.
1:21.4	So this was written by Dan Brady, our vice president general manager, he does everything except taking calls.
1:32.6	Otherwise, he does everything. Okay, you ready? Dr. Laura has been warning parents for years.
1:40.2	Get your children off social media. For much, much more than a decade, Dr. Laura has taken
1:48.3	countless calls from concerned parents asking the same questions. Should I give my child a smartphone?
1:56.0	Should I have allowed them on social media? Too often, the story unfolds the same way. A parent gives their
2:04.3	child a smartphone, only to discover later. The child has created social media accounts without
2:10.4	their knowledge. Soon the child is staying up all night, watching TikTok, YouTube, they stop
2:16.5	coming out of their room.
2:18.4	Their focus on school disappears.
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