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Hey everybody. Welcome to another episode of OG therapy and today in honor of Mother's Day,

I am taking a question from a mom and this mom is having a problem with getting her kids to talk to her now let me be very

clear in the question was a long question so I'm gonna just paraphrase it for you she said

that her kids have no problem opening up their mouth and making words come out in

the form of can I have money can you take me somewhere can you buy me something

and I don't like something okay so apparently her kids she says they're experts at communicating those types of messages,

which is not so good at communicating when she asked them how their day was,

how they're feeling.

Did they do their homework?

Have they done their chores?

Where they're going?

Who they're hanging out with.

Apparently in those questions, they get really agitated. And sometimes they

ignore. Sometimes they pretend like, you know, they can't hear, things like that. So she said,

David, and again, this was a long question. So she gave me a lot of details and background about

her kids. I believe she got three kids, like ages like seven, nine and 15, I think it was, something like that,

because I know the oldest doesn't have a driver's license.

So anyways, so what she said was, she goes, all I want for Mother's Day, because apparently

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