My Cousin Ditches Her Kids With Me

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🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Michelle is tired of helping her cousin with babysitting favors so that she can travel with her various boyfriends. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - 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 listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious XM Triumph 111.
0:11.0	For Kell, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hello.
0:15.0	Hello, Michelle.
0:17.6	What can I do for you?
0:19.6	Thank you for taking my call.
0:21.9	I do have a question about a cousin of mine. She is a
0:27.2	divorced mother of two. Her children are eight and ten. Their dad has partial custody so where they live with
0:38.0	mom and they go to dad like every other weekend you know and periodically through the week so she had the my
0:46.7	question is sort of the situation she has asked me several times over the last couple of years to babysit her children.
0:57.0	So what is, she will go out of town with a boyfriend of hers, not the children's father, a different gentleman, and she will go out of town and she needs a babysitter for her children so she can go out of town so the kids can be babysat by someone.
1:17.0	And I've offered to do it.
1:19.0	My children are all grown, so it's perfectly, you know, I don't have any commitments with my children but I'm kind of having an
1:26.4	uneasy feeling about this I'm not sure if it's the right thing to do because I feel that she's
1:31.6	taking away from her children.
1:34.0	She does work full-time.
1:36.0	Her kids are in after-school care, after-school,
1:39.0	until she picks them up and things. So I don't know what the proper response that I should
1:46.2	hear that I think I know the proper response I suggest that you do these go-away trips and pause for a moment so she'll know you don't approve.
2:06.0	These go-away trips with these guys
2:08.0	when they're with their dad.
2:11.0	I don't think you should minimize the time you're with them since you work full time.
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