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The Dr. Laura Podcast

I Realize What I Did to My Kid

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

How should Linda apologize to her adult son for putting him aside as a child to focus on her first-born? 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 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.

0:12.4

Linda, welcome to the program.

0:15.0

Thank you, Dr. Lowe, for taking my call.

0:18.0

After listening to your program, I have held on to a word you described me to a

0:28.0

duty and that was sadly despicable. I raised three kids on my own. One, the oldest was very, very

0:38.5

dysfunctional. I had in my brain in this chaotic time of life, if I fix the oldest dysfunctional chaotic kid, that would

0:49.1

ease my family's woes.

0:52.1

And then my second very, very much upright student, great guy who got a job disowned me after he got married and had kids. I am now getting a little

1:10.4

more in touch with him, but there's still a distance I've decided after

1:14.8

listening to your show because I paid attention to the wrong one the right ones

1:20.0

suffered greatly and I just I want to apologize to my second son and I want to make

1:30.0

sure that that's the right move because I don't want to jeopardize that relationship anymore.

1:36.5

My young day daughter.

1:38.8

Yeah, I don't understand why you think that would not be a good move apologizing explaining and apologizing.

1:44.8

How could that not be a good move?

1:47.7

Question mark?

1:48.7

Exactly. Yeah, I, I, the relationship's been so 10 years.

1:54.0

So I, the relationship's been so ten years so I appreciated your insight into that type of moves that I did make with them growing up and I just wanted to make sure that me coming now to that

2:16.2

realization when I'm 73 and he's going to be 40 would be a healing property.

2:21.6

It's never too late for a child, no matter what age, to appreciate a parent taking responsibility

2:30.0

for whatever hurts they felt.

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