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Hello, Dr. Laura. So thank you so much for taking my call. Thank you.

We have our oldest, we have four ugly children. Our oldest is a freshman in college.

She just moved there in August.

She's about five hours away from home.

And they had a family weekend that came up at the college.

And being that were five hours away,

we had told her we probably wouldn't come.

But she called and asked and said, would you please come?

My roommate's parents are coming.

My friends' parents are coming.

And we said, OK, we can make it work.

So we took two of our youngest with us.

And we went five hours away to go visit her. We showed up,

picked her up at the dorm room, and she was fine right then. But as the day progressed, we went

to Walmart, got her snacks for her dorm room and things like that. And she just started becoming

ruder and ruder as the day went on. And she knew we were going to go tailgate with her roommate's parents and the friend's parents.

And it was like she was getting nervous about that.

And she was getting embarrassed about things with us and saying that we had forgotten chairs for the tailgate, which was no big deal,

but she kept calling us unprepared.

I don't know why parents don't get how pathetically off-kilter they are, and they use

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