My Child Is Having Troubling Thoughts

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🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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My Child Is Having Troubling Thoughts: Brittany’s 4-year-old daughter has recently developed a habit of “bad thoughts” which she finds disturbing. - Dr. Laura: "Good people can have bad thoughts but don’t act on them." | 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	Brittany, welcome to the program.
0:12.8	Hi, Dr. Laura. How are you?
0:15.1	Hi. Good. What can I help you with?
0:17.6	Okay, great. So my question today for you is, it's a mom question.
0:23.4	I have a four-year-old daughter and recently she's developed a little bit of a habit and I just
0:31.2	want to see how you would respond in this situation. And what does that happen?
0:37.4	Yeah, so she'll come up to me several times a day and whisper in my ear and say, mom,
0:43.9	I had a bad thought. Give me a list of some of the bad thoughts, please.
0:51.8	Sure. So some of these have been, I hate you. I hate grandma. I don't like that person. That person
1:01.3	like weird. I'm going to step on baby brother. I'm going to what? I'm going to what?
1:11.8	Step or hit my baby brother. Yeah, she done that?
1:16.9	No. So she's never acted on them. I think it's just more of a confession.
1:24.1	Okay, let me decide what it is. You just give me the information.
1:28.4	Okay, so... Anything else you want to add? Madam, let me do the assessment, but I need all the
1:34.5	information. Okay? Okay. I know you would like to interpret this in a way that makes you feel a
1:40.2	little less scared. But I don't we can't go there. Okay? So is there anything else?
1:48.7	Um, let me think real fast. You can think real slow.
1:57.4	I think the only other thing is that she seems really bothered by it. So...
2:04.8	Okay, I don't need that one. I want to know the bad thoughts. Is that it? She gets mad.
2:09.4	Those are the bad thoughts, yeah. Okay, let me explain something to you.
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