Family Weekend Was a Flop

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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There's a lesson for Angie to learn from the way her daughter acted during family weekend at her college. 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	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph 111. Angie, welcome to the program.
0:16.1	Hello, Dr. Laura. So thank you so much for taking my call. Thank you.
0:23.6	We have our oldest, we have four ugly children. Our oldest is a freshman in college.
0:26.6	She just moved there in August.
0:28.6	She's about five hours away from home.
0:30.6	And they had a family weekend that came up at the college.
0:34.6	And being that were five hours away,
0:37.6	we had told her we probably wouldn't come.
0:40.0	But she called and asked and said, would you please come?
0:42.3	My roommate's parents are coming.
0:43.8	My friends' parents are coming.
0:45.0	And we said, OK, we can make it work.
0:49.4	So we took two of our youngest with us.
0:51.3	And we went five hours away to go visit her. We showed up,
0:55.5	picked her up at the dorm room, and she was fine right then. But as the day progressed, we went
1:01.6	to Walmart, got her snacks for her dorm room and things like that. And she just started becoming
1:07.6	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.
1:16.1	And it was like she was getting nervous about that.
1:20.3	And she was getting embarrassed about things with us and saying that we had forgotten chairs for the tailgate, which was no big deal,
1:28.9	but she kept calling us unprepared.
1:31.3	I don't know why parents don't get how pathetically off-kilter they are, and they use
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