My Ex Gave My Daughter a Phone

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🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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My Ex Gave My Daughter a Phone: Jen's ex-husband gave their daughter a cell phone, and she's struggling with what to do next. - Dr. Laura: "Divorce puts kids in the middle of two parenting styles." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy 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.
0:09.7	Jen, welcome to the program.
0:12.0	Hi Dr. Laura.
0:14.0	Thank you for taking my call.
0:16.3	Sure.
0:17.3	I am having a little bit of a problem with my 16 year old daughter and I'm wondering if you would be so kind of to help me.
0:25.2	So she's 16 and unfortunately her dad and I are divorced so he got her a cell phone.
0:33.6	She and every time I tell her you know I take it away at a certain time I rules in my house.
0:41.6	She will you know when I go to sleep I found her.
0:44.8	Jen, go.
0:46.2	Jen, just listen for a second.
0:49.8	It was a time I ran a clinic which means I had a number of psychotherapists working for me.
0:56.4	And once a week we would have our meetings where we would discuss cases and help each other with things that were difficult.
1:02.1	Give each other ideas and whatever.
1:04.2	One thing we always said is that 95% of the time when parents brought a child in for us to fix the problem was the parents.
1:16.2	You can't have a divorce with two people on opposite poles of any issue and expect a kid not to rebel, react, fight.
1:30.0	You created this.
1:31.8	I don't care who left who.
1:34.2	But when the marriage went south and you two took different polarities you keeping a hard line and I'm assuming him not sharing that hard line.
1:45.0	She's going to gravitate toward him.
1:47.4	Obviously.
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