Who's Going to Save My Granddaughter?

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Kimberly's granddaughter is growing up in a destructive home and needs her grandma to stand up for her. 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
0:09.0	Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.3	Kimberly, welcome to the program.
0:14.4	Hello, thank you for taking my call.
0:17.0	Thank you.
0:18.9	What's up?
0:29.1	Well, it seems like there's a theme today on grandparents or grandmothers.
0:40.3	I'm calling today because I'm extremely tormented by a situation I have with my oldest son and going out to visit them. Each time I have visited, I live several states away, so I fly.
0:46.3	My granddaughter, their one child, is eight years old now.
0:51.3	And each time I've flown out out usually an average of once a year
0:55.2	sometimes a little maybe it'll be two times depending on the situation there is a
1:02.1	lot of tension in their home them they always have said you know we're not host and
1:08.2	I'm they're not the wife my daughter-in-law is not a good hostess.
1:13.0	And that's okay, I've accepted that.
1:17.1	But the tension in the home is very destructive and there's somewhat passive parenting or yelling and screaming.
1:25.7	And my last trip out just a few weeks ago was my granddaughter is now eight and the blaming
1:36.0	and the yelling and the arguing and the screaming.
1:39.2	And I had to just excuse myself and go upstairs and I really didn't handle it well at all.
1:46.1	I'm sorry. What would have handling it well looked like?
1:52.3	Oh, thank you for that. What would have handling it well look like?
1:58.3	Wow, what a great question.
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