The Best Way to Parent a Teenage Son

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Claudia is frustrated with trying to keep her teenage son motivated, moral and on-track academically. 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 downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:12.9	Claudia, welcome to the program.
0:15.7	Hi, thank you.
0:17.3	You're welcome. What's happening?
0:21.6	Really, thank you for taking my call.
0:24.8	So my almost 17-year-old applied for a scholarship to go to Germany on his senior year.
0:35.2	And he was accepted and then invited to a finalist interview
0:41.0	in another city where many students from other states attended.
0:46.8	And he was selected and offered this scholarship
0:50.6	for a cultural exchange for one year in Germany.
0:55.0	And now he has to give them a decision by tomorrow
1:02.0	and he doesn't want to go.
1:05.0	And we think that would give him so many intangible benefits.
1:11.6	Okay, Claudia, Claudia, let me just ask you something,
1:14.6	because I was thinking as you were talking,
1:16.6	sort of relating it to myself.
1:17.6	At 17, I would have been scared to death
1:21.6	to go across the ocean to a whole other country,
1:25.6	no parents, no relatives, none of my usual friends,
1:30.4	I'd be scared, wouldn't you?
1:33.8	I'd be scared if you wouldn't.
1:37.6	Yeah.
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