My Child Is Failing

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🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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My Child Is Failing: Wendy is worn down after spending the last three years attempting to keep her child from flunking out of school. - Dr. Laura: "You need to love her...not “helicopter parent” her." | 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.
0:09.9	Wendy, welcome to the program.
0:12.3	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:14.1	I am super nervous.
0:17.6	I am calling because I have reached, I feel like I've kind of reached a wall with my 17-year-old daughter.
0:26.0	She's never been super academically inclined, but she's always tried, you know, until we got to high school.
0:32.8	And it's just been an uphill battle.
0:36.3	She has 10 stailed classes, core classes that she has to make up in order to graduate.
0:43.2	This is going to be a year.
0:44.1	May I ask a few questions?
0:46.4	Sure, yeah.
0:47.8	Okay, so you have a 17-year-old who's probably not going to graduate high school.
0:51.5	So what can I do for you?
0:53.1	Yes.
0:54.1	Okay, well, she's supposed to be doing summer school, online summer school, and she basically blew it off.
1:00.4	I saw her sitting here.
1:01.2	Wendy, I don't need to hear the rest of that.
1:03.6	I already know it.
1:05.0	Okay.
1:05.7	Okay.
1:06.7	Or you wouldn't be on the phone.
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