I Let My Daughter Down

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Dr. Laura helps Amber understand that standing by and allowing her daughter to be demeaned for her weight by her stepmother is possibly more damaging than the critical remarks. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - 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 11. Amber, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	So I have a question about how you would handle like my stepmom talking to my daughter about like her weight.
0:29.0	She kind of like says like things that her feelings.
0:35.0	I'm sorry you're there in the room when this happens.
0:40.0	Um, yeah, well, yeah. Okay. So then sometime she'll say stepmother is standing to the left. Your daughter is standing to the right.
0:50.0	You're standing somewhere off on the side. She says something unpleasant to your daughter. And do you tell her to go stuff it and leave with your daughter.
1:03.0	I said like I can handle this. Is this a yes or no? Is this a no? Well, be a better mother. Don't bring your daughter to where she's being abused.
1:18.0	That's it. Be a better mother. Don't bring your daughter to where she's being abused because you standing by is worse than what the stepmother says.
1:29.0	Believe me when I tell you.
1:36.0	No, you're right. I should have just followed my gut with that.
1:42.0	That follow your gut. Most animals defend their young.
1:46.0	That's nothing to do with the gut. That's a do with the moral obligation.
1:54.0	Okay. All right. That's all I got for you. Thank you.
1:59.0	Apologize to your daughter.
2:03.0	Tell her you're sorry you didn't stand up for her and that'll never.
2:07.0	She can count on that you would for now on. By the way, how old is your daughter?
2:14.0	She's 10.
2:16.0	See now when she's 25 and calls me it won't be because the stepmother said she's fat. It'll be because you said nothing.
2:33.0	I know I'm just not trying to like start fights with her because they're just married, but I know it's like I need to like get my priority straight again.
2:43.0	15 years from now your daughter is going to call me pissed at you.
2:48.0	Not the stepmother.
2:53.0	Do you understand what I'm saying?
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