Why Have Them If You Won’t Raise Them?

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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How would your baby rate your job performance if she could? Of all the things we can give our children, attention is what they most need and want. Children deserve to be put first. They are not supposed to be fit in around their mommy’s and daddy’s more important schedules. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Listen to all my episodes of Dr. Laura's Deep Dive in your favorite podcast app.
0:07.0	Search for Dr. Laura's Deep Dive Podcast and follow my Deep Dive today.
0:14.0	Dr. Laura's Deep dive.
0:18.0	Deep dive.
0:20.0	Dr. Laura's Deep dive podcast, Deep Dive, Dr. Laura's Deep Dive podcast.
0:23.8	How would your baby rate your job performance if she could?
0:28.8	Ha ha!
0:29.7	My listener, Kim, sent me this thought-provoking email about parenting.
0:35.5	She wrote,
0:36.6	When talking to women about leaving children to return to work,
0:40.9	most comments are from a mother's perspective. I kept thinking, well, what about the child's perspective?
0:49.7	So I did a job performance review and evaluation as though it were from the baby.
0:58.0	And here it goes.
1:00.1	Attendance.
1:01.5	Out of a 14-hour workday, the hours I'm awake, you were someplace else for nine hours.
1:08.1	That leaves precious little time for me and the job I hired you to do
1:12.5	before I have to go to bed. Attitude. In the mornings, you are in a rush and don't have time to cuddle or
1:22.4	play. My breakfast is usually simple and hurried. In the evenings, when you are actually here on the job, you're tired from whatever you did before
1:33.2	you picked me up.
1:34.8	And you are often preoccupied with other things when we're together.
1:39.5	I need a mom who's focused and has a good attitude.
1:43.2	I need smiles and cuddles and warmth and
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