It's Time for the Baby Bird to Fly

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Amy's grown son can't afford renting in her community so he still lives with his mommy. Searching for advice? 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.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Amy, welcome to the program.
0:14.5	Hey.
0:16.1	Hello.
0:16.9	I'm Georgia.
0:18.9	What can I help you with?
0:21.5	So, I have an adult son who was sent home during COVID from college.
0:28.6	He was away at college and now he was home and he continued to be at home, has now graduated, has gotten his first job, and he's like continuing to live
0:41.6	our lifestyle was like no...
0:47.0	That's because you're lousy parents.
0:51.5	Thank you.
0:52.2	Yeah.
0:52.7	Your lousy parents.
0:57.5	Your job is to raise kids to be able to face life as a healthy, productive, compassionate, energetic person. So instead of that, you just let him
1:08.6	marinate and never grow up. That's lousy parenting.
1:12.4	Mama birds don't do that.
1:13.8	They actually, when it gets to a certain point, they start pushing the baby birdies.
1:18.7	They start pushing them when you think, oh, my God, look at that, because the baby bird
1:22.9	can be able to fly.
1:24.3	But the mommy bird makes it clear that your job is to get on in life. Not for me to keep you in a
1:31.5	lifestyle that you would like. So you're a lousy parenting. So what's the, I mean, I've told him that.
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