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Hi Dr. Laura. Hi. What can I do for you? I was calling to thank you for some advice you gave me

25 years ago. I had it somewhere around there. I don't remember exactly the year, but around

25 years ago. My daughter is 37 now, so I'm guessing she was around 10. So it could have been more

like 27 years ago. But I called in because she was constantly blind and telling, I mean they weren't

big lies. They were all little white lies, but they would be to get herself out of trouble or

whatever the case may be. And so you suggested at that time that I start giving it back to her

and telling her little white lies. In other words, I think your example was, tell her, tell her,

you know, say, oh, I think we're going to go get ice cream later on tonight. And then when

later on tonight came and we didn't get ice cream and she asked about it, I was just lying about

that. And so I tried that and it worked. She stopped lying. I said, see, you can't trust me. You

don't know when I'm telling the truth when I'm lying. So that's how I feel when you lie to me.

And she quit lying. That's a powerful tool. It really is. And I

got to get some advice yesterday. It was a little different. I can't remember what it was up the top

of my head. I just got a confirmation. It was a boy and it was getting confirmation.

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