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🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Chris is sad that her sons are connecting more with their father and less with her as they become young men. Searching for advice? 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. Chris, welcome to the program.
0:15.3	Dr. Laura, thank you for taking my call. You've helped me so much over the years. I so appreciate your wisdom. I have four
0:22.6	children, two in college that are boys and then two in high school that are girls. And I wanted to
0:29.7	get your advice on how you think it's best for me to stay connected to my boys now that they're young men.
0:39.2	You're connected through your history and through love.
0:42.5	You're connected through the history you have with them and holidays and sending notes now
0:49.4	and then being cute, but you're off duty as their full-time mother.
0:53.1	Don't call them.
0:53.9	Don't keep texting them. Don't keep texting them.
0:55.0	Don't keep questioning them. Leave them alone.
0:59.6	Okay. They're not going to forget you. I promise.
1:05.0	Okay. I guess I just, they're connecting so much with their dad, which makes sense because they're all
1:10.8	now. They're asking grown-up advice. No, no, which makes sense because they're all men now.
1:11.5	Why, are you divorced?
1:11.8	They're asking grown-up advice.
1:13.4	No, no, no, no, not at all.
1:15.7	Okay.
1:16.1	Can I explain something to you?
1:18.3	These children are males.
1:21.1	Your husband is a male.
1:25.6	There are a lot of things he needs to still teach them about becoming men and dealing with certain things
1:32.2	in the beginning your husband could have called and i don't know how to get connected to my sons
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