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The Dr. Laura Podcast

My Son is Sexting

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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My Son is Sexting - Amber's 13-year-old son has been sexting with a classmate, and Amber and her husband aren't sure how to handle him. - Dr. Laura: "Don't be afraid to be the tough parent your child needs." | To 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. 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

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.

0:10.0

Triumph 111 Amber and Bill welcome to the program.

0:14.0

Hello, Dr. Laura. Hi, hello, Dr. Laura. Hi, how old is everybody? How long have you been married? You know the usual.

0:23.0

I'm 44. I have two biological children and Bill is 53, three biological children and we've been married for two years.

0:35.0

Second marriage, third, fourth, fifth, second, second. Okay. Did you make any more babies with each other? No. How old are the youngest kids?

0:48.0

Our children are age in age 13 to 23. Okay. What can I do for you?

0:56.0

So the the child that we're talking about is my youngest son or youngest son. He's 13 years old.

1:04.0

So the little bit of backstory, his father and I were divorced when he was one because his father chose to go be with another woman.

1:16.0

I raised both the kids alone for a decade and then about three years ago or so Bill came into the picture, which has been great because all of her and Bill have a very strong relationship.

1:30.0

About a month to ago, we found out that our 13 year old son was engaging in sexual inappropriate texts with a female classmate.

1:45.0

At which time we took away the technology that we could because he didn't have a phone at that time. We took that away and we also reached out to the parent of the female told her and she took away that child's son.

2:03.0

Our son goes to a private school. It is a bring your own device school. So there are opportunities where he does have his computer at school during the day.

2:15.0

Yeah. Well, you might want to go on the net and find Kim commando.

2:20.0

So we have an example.

2:24.0

Let me finish my thought. Okay. I am as close to ignorant about this as you can get and still walk around.

2:33.0

But Kim commando, who is my buddy, is an expert in this. She can set up help you set up the computer uniquely in ways where he cannot use it for anything except the school stuff.

2:47.0

She knows how to do that. I know how to turn it on and off.

2:52.0

Okay. So she has a website. You're saying yes. Yes. Okay. Bill is going to go right now. She is the best. Kim commando. Okay. I am K.O. M.A. N.D.O.

3:03.0

Yeah. You've got it. You're looking at it right now. So that I know it sounds like a strip artist, but that's her name.

3:10.0

So that's her number one. And we are working towards that. Because as you know, 13 year olds, they're even though we have all these advice controls. We're still struggling with this. So so yesterday last night, because I monitor his computer consistently.

3:25.0

I found that via one of these side mechanism apps, he wrote two more text to the female.

3:33.0

And we approached him because we're we've been talking about it all month. And his thought his response back to us was.

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