Parenting a Young Man vs. a Boy

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Now that her son is 17 years old, Amy is learning that the parenting techniques she employed with her little boy no longer work. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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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 Sirius XM Triumph 11. Amy, welcome to the program.
0:14.1	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you so much for taking my call. I really appreciate your wisdom, your perspective.
0:20.5	Thank you. And just to put this little dilemma wisdom, your perspective. Thank you. Just to put this little
0:23.4	dilemma in front of you. Thank you. Okay. So I am 54. I've been married 28 years. I have three
0:31.9	kids. Two of them are basically grown and flown working for one thing grad school.
0:39.5	And then I have a high schooler, junior son, who's 17.
0:45.2	And he's a well-respected, a well-adjusted kid.
0:48.5	He's a happy kid.
0:50.3	If anything, maybe he's a little too happy go lucky, which is one of his positives,
0:54.5	but also I guess maybe one of the things that's challenging for me is his mom is I keep trying
0:59.5	to adapt to each kid and what's working for them.
1:02.8	I don't think I'm getting it done with him in terms of...
1:06.9	What makes you think that?
1:11.0	So I guess he gets very frustrated with me when I get frustrated with him.
1:18.9	Oh, okay.
1:20.0	You get frustrated with him.
1:21.5	Woo-hoo!
1:22.6	Finally did it today.
1:23.7	I've been waiting all day to do that.
1:26.2	So give me an example of what you'd be frustrated
1:29.7	with. I mean, I have no idea how any mother could find a 17-year-old boy frustrating.
1:40.2	I'm sorry, I was trying to keep a straight face. All right. Tell me how he frustrates you.
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