The Responsibility of Teaching Kids the Things They Need To Know

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Listen to my Morning Monologue: I’m sharing my take on pressing issues, enlightening research on human behavior, answering questions I get by email, and my favorite, most instructive interactions with callers. Everything you’ll hear is designed to help you become a better spouse, parent, family member, co-worker, friend, and human being. It’s the free therapy you need! Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:29.7	So this morning was my, I don't think I've been doing this every year, nodding me, the eye
0:36.0	examination. You know, are my eyeballs in there? Are they going to
0:41.1	fall out? Are they falling apart? And that sort of stuff. I've been laser twice in my life.
0:47.6	Left side distance, right side reading. It's been fabulous, amazing. Everybody's wearing glasses. Except about five years ago, suddenly the signs were getting a little
1:00.1	mushy, and I'd squint before I got to a corner. Yeah, don't like that. So went in and eyeballs are
1:09.5	basically okay, dry.
1:11.6	You know, as you get older, your eyeballs dry out.
1:16.6	There you go.
1:19.6	So he put me on different drops for that and two kinds of drops
1:23.6	and told me to take this lutean that's good for your eyeballs. It's like a vitamin.
1:31.7	And so that's that. But in all the tests they do, they do this stuff, which dilates your eyeballs.
1:38.5	So now I literally can't focus on anything. So I'm so glad this is radio.
1:48.4	Anyway, cataracts, he said, it's a little hint of it, but just ignore it until you can't.
1:55.1	When you get to the point where you can't, then you do something about it.
1:58.5	So I really liked an ophthalmologist who was also a surgeon who didn't want to immediately go,
2:05.8	wait a minute, let me get my scalpel.
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