What Changes at Age 18?

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Maria's grandson wants to know what freedoms and privileges he's going to gain once he turns 18. 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 listening to my call of the day podcast.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Maria, welcome to the program.
0:13.9	Thank you.
0:15.3	I'm going to pick up your brain on our grandson.
0:20.0	He lives with us.
0:21.8	He's been living with us for 10 years.
0:24.3	We adopted.
0:24.7	Why is he living with you and not his mommy and daddy?
0:31.0	Yeah, that's, they, my daughter didn't want the responsibility with them and they were being dropped everywhere
0:41.5	and with whoever she found so that she could go and travel and have her boyfriend so we decided
0:47.9	to take them over and about eight years ago we adopted both of them.
0:57.5	And how are the kids dealing with a rejecting mother?
1:01.6	Ma'am, I'm talking to you.
1:04.1	How have the kids dealt with a rejecting, abandoning mother?
1:13.4	She lives in a different state.
1:16.3	How are the kids dealing with a mother who abandoned and rejected them?
1:21.9	Sorry.
1:22.2	How are they dealing with that?
1:23.6	Okay.
1:25.1	Okay.
1:25.7	It was hard for them because she was uh around eight when she came
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