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I'm on the Laura. How are you?

Fine. What can I do for you?

I'm a I'm a prior so I hope I can get through this. Thank you. Clearly, but I called and some time ago by my son and we were struggling with public school and just he's such a good time-hearted kid.

He really struggled with, you know, being around kids that weren't being raised the same way and weren't really holding themselves accountable. It was really a struggle and his little eyes, the lighten his eyes were gone and I'm sorry.

So it was a really scary place and I called you about it and we discussed it and we decided to get in some counseling and you know, it was it was definitely an ongoing thing that it was going to be.

But I also listen, excuse me, I listened all those years and took so much wisdom from all the different calls and I just dedicated myself to paying attention and having conversation after conversation that he needed to have to work through, you know, how to be in the world with people.

And we homeschooled and then he's eventually made it back and he's going to early college high school. The point of my call was I listen to him this summer.

And he's 16 years old and I was like, wow, he has just moved so far, Dr. Morris. So you'll be so proud.

This child worked at 16 and 16 on his own. So he decided to work at a not fun job this summer because it had more future potential.

He got up at five o'clock in the morning in the morning on his own. He was out the door by 530. He worked in a hot warehouse all day, all summer.

And he had to drive into a big city to do it and he just was such a hard worker and I just looked at this young man and had so much respect and being able to respect your own child and look up to them and say, wow, like look what you've done.

It was such a payoff to all the years they can come with him and all the years worrying and just pouring my heart and soul into him.

And the reason I'm calling is because you really can't imagine, excuse me, what a big part of that you work.

Well, a little part of it, but thank you for letting me be any part of it.

No, more than, you know, honestly, so it was cool. It was a really cool thing. And you know, like, as they all along, we have to wait.

We have to wait so long and the payoff is so quiet, but it's so much deeper and more profound than anything I could have done with my time.

And we're so close in such a healthy way. They're such a, you know, respect for each other.

And we talked about these deep things and he's so comfortable talking to me about girls and philosophy and it's just the coolest thing.

Anyway, it was really neat. And I have one little story for you that I think you'll laugh about.

Tell me.

So I had a lot of sense of humor. I tried to raising him and one of the things I'm focused on now is releasing him well, you know, like giving him this space to create his own life without having to worry.

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