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Jordan, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Hi. I have been listening to you. I've been listening to you with, actually, in my mom's car everywhere

we went when I was a little girl, and I'm now 40 years old.

Wow. Thank you. Calling you about my mom.

All right. I am a stay-at-home mom to two boys that are five and eight. My relationship with my mom over the last

10 years, my dad passed away 10 years ago. She changed a lot, which is understandably so. She is

in a relationship now and happy. She was always critical, always even growing up critical, but she scrutinizes my parenting.

And a lot of it I can say, you know, well, I'll just hang up the phone.

I won't listen to it.

Shut up, goodbye, like, and we'll get over it.

But my older son has had a lot of

health issues, and most of my days and time for the last year has been taking him to doctors

and trying to figure it out. He has celiac. Yeah, he has celiac disease, which has been hard,

but we thought that was the reason he wasn't growing or gaining weight.

And now it looks like there's some other underlying issues.

And we fight every day.

But he's very open about his celiac disease.

He talks to his class about it.

And he's overall a confident child.

Oh, good.

The day before Thanksgiving, yes, but we are, you know, I struggle, obviously,

as my child and my heart breaks.

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