When Is It Time To Cut The Cord?

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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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When Is It Time To Cut The Cord? - JT and his girlfriend are tired of dealing with his mentally ill, 18-year-old daughter and are wondering if it's time for her to move out on her own. - Dr. Laura: "Help her to focus on her goals and guide her toward achieving them." - What goal does your teen want to achieve that you could help with? Email me your thoughts at: drlaura@drlaura.com | To participate on the radio program; call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment - https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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1:18.8	on Sirius XM Triumph 111. JT, welcome to the program.
1:24.9	Hello, how are you today? Excellent. What can I do for you?
1:30.8	My question is, is when to cut the cord with a kid? I have the love of my life for the last
1:40.6	eight years, my girlfriend. We've got five kids between us. The last one here is 18 years old,
1:48.5	and she got in trouble and got sent away to a troubled youth camp, and she was released when
1:56.7	they were when she was 18 years old. Well, we thought that being away had done her some good.
2:05.2	She got diagnosed as being bipolar, but since she came home, it's been really, really,
2:12.8	really rough on both of us. She can't follow rules. She, you know, she'll, when anything doesn't
2:22.4	go her way, she'll leave the house and not come back for a week, week and a half,
2:29.0	and things got really, really bad this weekend. She was really mean to her mother,
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