Honesty's the Best Policy

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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11-year-old Vania says she doesn't have the time to call her dad every day, but is she being truthful about the real reason she resists doing what he expects of her? Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious XM triumph 111.
0:11.0	Mom and is it Vanya? Is your name Vanya? Yes, it's Vanya.
0:19.0	And how old are you Vanya? 11.
0:24.0	And what is concerning you? What's the problem?
0:30.0	My dad is always only me to call him, but me and my mom never have the time.
0:42.0	I'm sorry I didn't quite understand that your dad would like you to call him, but you don't have the time.
0:49.0	I do not have the time. Yeah.
0:53.0	He lives in California and we live in Arkansas.
0:58.0	Okay, telephone do you reach from Arkansas to California?
1:04.0	Yes, but you want to see a call him every day, but me and my mom don't have the time, because we really busy a lot.
1:14.0	On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 is a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot. How much do you miss your dad?
1:23.0	Truth. What number between 1 and 10, 10 being a lot? How much do you really miss your dad?
1:33.0	10. And 10 being very angry, how angry are you with your dad? 1 to 10.
1:42.0	2. 2. So you're mostly not angry with him and you miss him a lot.
1:49.0	Yeah. Okay. One of those numbers must be off, because if you missed him that much and you weren't angry, I think you take the time out 10 minutes and make a call.
2:05.0	I think you could find the 10 minutes, the 10 minutes you're talking to me could be the 10 minutes you call your dad.
2:11.0	So something's not right here in the mathematics, the arithmetic.
2:21.0	You have the time, dear. Okay, what is the buzzing?
2:25.0	Sorry, that I'm at work and the phone will buzz, but I don't it's not a call for me.
2:32.0	Got it. Okay. You haven't, you haven't, you haven't answered.
2:37.0	If you miss him a lot and you're not angry, you have 10 minutes a day to call him. Nobody's that busy.
2:49.0	So why truthfully, why don't you call busy is not the truth. Give me the truth.
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