My Kid Doesn't Call Me Back!

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Lisa is frustrated that her college-aged daughter is so slow to respond to Lisa's texts and phone calls. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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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	Lisa, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi, Dr. Schlesinger. I'd like your advice about with regards to my 22-year-old daughter who just moved across country for graduate school so she will be there for two
0:25.9	years.
0:26.9	My question is I'd like to know how to handle communication with her because she does not
0:32.1	communicate well as far as returning my
0:34.4	phone calls returning my text messages she's very very hot and cold with it and I
0:42.3	I'm trying to take her lead on it but if I did then I really wouldn't have any
0:46.2	communication with her we have a very loving wonderful relationship there's no
0:50.6	problems she's always been like this but now that she's going to be so far away from
0:55.0	Lisa Lisa. Yes. Yes. Yes.
0:58.0	Do mama birds chase their baby birds around the city?
1:05.0	No.
1:06.7	Well, don't do it to your daughter.
1:12.2	I'm glad you were warm when she was growing up, but she's an adult now.
1:17.2	In graduate school, with all new friends and future ahead of her, you have to let go.
1:25.0	Can I ask a follow-up question?
1:29.0	In the 60s, there was a phrase, I'm ignoring you every time you ask that in the 60s there was a phrase that you
1:37.2	If you you can't keep a bird by squeezing it you have to let it go. That gives it future motivation to want to
1:47.0	come back.
1:51.0	Okay, I understand what you're saying.
1:55.0	You're annoying the crap out of her.
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