I’m Worried My Sons Will Become Snowflakes

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🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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I’m Worried My Sons Will Become Snowflakes: Joe’s 18 and 21-year-old sons are both living at home and he's concerned they'll never become responsible adults. - Dr. Laura: "Present two choices; contribute or “you’re out!” | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://family.drlaura.com/pg/jsp/help/general/privacypolicy.jsp for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.
0:03.8	Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.
0:09.8	Show! Welcome to the program.
0:12.3	Hi Dr. Laura, thank you for taking my call. How are you?
0:15.0	Good. What can I do for you?
0:18.0	I want to... I have a question. We have two ugly boys, 18 and 21.
0:26.0	The 21-year-olds in his last year at the university lives at home and attends a university
0:33.2	only seven miles away from our home in the next city.
0:37.6	And the 18-year-olds just graduate from high school just this past May.
0:43.8	I'm sorry. And because of COVID, the 18-year-olds program at a school is going to go to locally,
0:51.5	college locally got canceled because of low attendance.
0:55.2	So he's going to work for a year and then go to school next fall.
0:59.5	And obviously the 21-year-olds going to graduate in the spring and be done.
1:04.8	My question to you is, I don't want to raise snowflakes and neither does my wife.
1:12.7	Is there... Wait a minute. By this time they'd be snowflakes.
1:17.3	So are they snowflakes?
1:19.7	No, I don't think so. My 18-year-olds started a landscaping business and worked harder than...
1:25.4	That's not a snowflake, dear. Why are you worrying about something that doesn't exist?
1:30.8	Still then, wait, there's one more question. The 21-year-olds...
1:33.2	Okay, sir.
1:36.4	He doesn't work and he goes to school for political science.
1:42.0	Although he's on a planning board of our local town.
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