How Do I Discipline My 17-year-old Son?

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Margaret is clashing with her teenage son and doesn't know how to turn things around. 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 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 Sirius XM Triumph 11th.
0:11.3	Margaret, welcome to the program.
0:14.1	Hi, how are you?
0:16.0	Good, Margaret. How can I help?
0:18.8	Okay, thank you very much for taking my call.
0:30.0	I'm a 45-year-old mother of a 17-year-old boy, and by every definition he's been a really good kid all growing up.
0:30.9	He's a hard worker.
0:34.2	He's made great choices, the whole bit.
0:40.9	Throughout his years, we have been very careful with phones, and he didn't get to have a phone until he was a freshman in high school.
0:43.1	As a sophomore, we figured out that the high schools make it really difficult not to have
0:48.4	some sort of a different phone that we provided.
0:51.4	And so we gave him a smartphone that was very, very dumb down.
0:54.1	It's never been a problem. This year, gave him a smartphone that was very, very done down. It's never been a
0:54.7	problem. This year, he's a senior heading out to college, and he came to me and said, you know,
1:04.7	I'm really getting left out of a lot of different things because I'm not on. Like what? Like what?
1:10.5	What is he getting locked out of?
1:11.9	That's important to his future.
1:15.2	Sure.
1:16.1	It's just like all of his friends would go and do things and the way that they communicate
1:20.6	is on a social media app versus text messaging.
1:24.3	I'm sorry.
1:25.6	Answer my question and have your son answer the question.
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