Well, hello everyone, and welcome to Family Talk. I'm your host, as always Dr. James Dobson. You know when we were kids our parents took care

of us obviously that's the responsibility they had and then when we grew up and became a little older, there was a time when

everything flipped and the child became the parent and the parent became the child.

I don't know if you've been through that yet,

but there is a time when the generations change

and responsibility is totally different.

To give you an example, when my mother grew older and was ailing,

her welfare became my responsibility.

I used to go buy her condo every Friday and pick her up, take her to lunch.

We'd talk about whatever she was interested in.

I would take her by the bank or whatever. about whatever she was interested in.

I would take her by the bank or whatever her needs were

because I now felt the responsibility

for the welfare of my mom.

Now that's the way it works.

You live long enough or if your parents live long enough,

then you take care of them in a different way.

Now, after my dad died, which was devastating to my mother,

she could not cope.

I mean, she loved my dad so much that she never got over his sudden

departures, sudden heart attack. And she came down with Parkinson's disease.

That was about five years after his death.

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