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 Sirius XM Triumph 111. Lisa, welcome to the program.

Thank you. I was listening to your prior conversation with the mom of the daughter that wants to move back home. And I have actually

a different scenario where I have a son and I am pretty sure I'm going to know your answer, but I was intrigued by your

review. I'm not yet. Yeah, well, he's 24, not 22, and moved home after college and has worked in a few different

industries. Really hasn't lived. You already know because you heard the answer. I did, but he suffers from anxiety

and anxiety and depression. And as a mom, if you died tomorrow, he'd have to figure out how to deal with anxiety and depression.

True. Yep. So stop babying him under the guise of anxiety and depression. He can learn yoga and learn to breathe and calm himself down.

He's medicated. I mean, he's function. Ma'am, ma'am, there's no point in having this discussion. I'm just thunderstruck of your generation of

parents who do this babying of their kids. Always mentally this or physically that. My God, if several generations ago, mothers raised their

sons like this, we never would have won World War II. Seriously. Think about that. That was called the greatest generation of men.

Now they're all coddled as anxious little wippets. Come on. Do you know that most young men today, much less the women, wouldn't qualified

of the military? If we had to fight that kind of war, we'd lose too many codlings. Too much coddling. Men are not men anymore. They're males. Very few men around.

Do you think I should supplement his income? No. I think he should get a couple of jobs, pay for himself and whatever it is that he wants to study and learn.

He'll have to figure out how to do that as he pays for himself. Isn't that what generations ago did? I'm not exactly talking about some new concept.

No, my father came to Vienna. People, well, there you go. Why are you robbing your son of that? No, when you set that, it resonated. So I know it.

All your mothers who do this, take your kids back in a robbing them of their pride, self-esteem and joy, which is created when they take care of themselves.

I mean, I don't think your average person gets as much of a thrill out of it, check from their mother as they get a check from the company they work for.

No, no, but there's an obvious fear when I don't care about your fear, stuff your fear.

That brings men down, women's fears. That's the, I think you just helped me understand the problem more. First person in any male's life is their mommy and if their mommy thinks they can't do it, they probably can't in their minds.

Well, who cares about your fear? Every mother has fear about their kids being happy, functional, healthy, safe. That's normal, but we don't grasp them by the neck so that we don't have fear.

We don't keep them in the nest because we have fear. We pump them up and say, you know, kiddo, I've seen you take on a lot of hard shit and I just believe in you.

I know you're going to make this work, even though in the beginning it's going to be nervous making, but I know you, I know you will make this work and you will be so proud of yourself.

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