To Be or Not to Be a SAHM

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Susan's husband isn't on board with her becoming a full-time mom, so she turns to Dr. Laura for suggestions on how to encourage him. 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
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph 111. Susan, welcome to the program.
0:15.3	Hi, Dr. Laura. Oh, my gosh. It's so exciting. Thank you. Thank you for being a pillar as a mother-in-law, grandmother, mother, a female icon, and we all appreciate you.
0:29.8	So I want to know what I can say to my husband to have him at least sit down and listen to me in regard to
0:43.2	why I want to be a temporary stay-at-home mom and take care of the kids and their family.
0:49.3	Take care of the kids and their family.
0:51.8	So you're not talking about little kids that are yours.
0:55.5	You're talking about somebody else's children?
0:58.6	I'm talking about us, my family, us, my husband and my two kids.
1:03.0	How old are your two kids?
1:06.6	The oldest is four, going to be five in January, and the other kiddo just turned 12 months.
1:16.9	And who's taking care of the kids now?
1:20.1	My mother and my mother-in-law is taking care of the baby.
1:24.7	And I know you're going to cringe when you hear this, but my oldest is in
1:28.7	daycare. How could you turn your kid over to an institutionalized situation where he's not loved all day.
1:44.2	I agree.
1:46.0	How do you manage to do that?
1:47.6	Don't tell me you agree.
1:48.6	I'm asking you how you do that.
1:50.7	How do you justify it in your own hand?
1:58.7	Yeah, kicking and screaming.
2:01.6	So I'm kind of, I'm done with it.
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