Every Parent’s Hope: Raising a Warm, Well-Adjusted, Successful Child

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🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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"Every Parent’s Hope: Raising a Warm, Well-Adjusted, Successful Child" - 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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0:27.8	My opening remarks today, very simple.
0:35.7	Every parent hopes to have a warm, cuddly, well-adjusted, functional, successful,
0:45.3	happy kid. Sometimes we have to go through rotten stages to get to there. Sometimes it seems
0:53.5	like maybe that's not even going to be an
0:56.1	option for various reasons. So I just thought it would be worth talking to you about what we
1:04.9	understand about helping kids become those wonderful things.
1:13.3	First of all, if your child is almost always argumentative, oppositional, hostile, rude,
1:23.9	if your kid seems indifferent to the feelings of other people or seems to take pleasure in someone else's pain,
1:39.7	and the rest of my opening is not going to be the slightest but useful.
1:44.8	Instead, read a book called Before It's Too Late by Stanton Samanow,
1:51.0	because that's a whole other creature.
1:57.4	For the rest of you,
1:59.2	who have kids who just get annoying and do bad things now and then,
2:05.3	but appear to have a conscience,
2:10.6	I have some remarks.
2:13.6	Never ignore stuff they do bad.
2:18.6	Right and wrong, good and bad.
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