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Turn your big business idea into With Shopify on your side, Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com DRLaura go to shopify.com DRLaura shopify.com DRLaura thank you for listening to my morning monologue sponsored by Native Path Collagen, the collagen I take daily to support healthy joints, skin, bones and gut. Go to getnativepath.com drlaura for free shipping and a special bundle deal at a fraction of the retail price. Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM triumph and connect with me 24.7drlaura.com so I got an email and I decided this person took this much time to do an analysis, make other recommendations and I thought she deserves to be heard. So I'm going to read her email. And the irony of all of this, as I'm reading it, I'm going she's making a very good point. But. But. Where's the but but? And I turn the page and the second to last sentence has the word which answers her question. One word, four letters. Not a four letter word. It's a word with four letters. But it's not a four letter word. Okay? And it summarized my whole answer and concept. Nonetheless, you're not going to get to it till I finish this, but I'm going to read it as is with no commentary until I get to the end. I've said that before and then I comment. I'm going to try to control myself. I'll make an effort. Hello Dr. Laura, I'm a 54 year old female who resides in Texas with a spouse of 16 years. Our children are of the fur baby variety. I have listened to you for 5ish years. Always enjoy the program. I usually either nod in agreement, ooh and ah at the simplicity of an answer, or talk to the radio in an attempt to preempt what you're going to say. For example, not and because Just be nice. That's it. Just be nice. Your show is the right balance of entertainment and practical wisdom for the ages. I said I wouldn't comment. I have to keep to it. Rarely do I have a face furrowing in response to your advice, but I had that on Friday and I thought about it all weekend. Today I called in your screener, suggested I email you. This past Friday was a best of the Dr. Laura program, so I missed the first part of the call, which may be significant to my confusion. The answer to that is yes, you didn't hear the whole call. Puts you at a disadvantage. Nonetheless, she writes, here's how it went. For the part I heard a mother of a college age student called in. She does not like how her daughter is dressing so she stopped giving her money for clothing. Now that made perfect sense to me. The mother went on to say she saw her daughter's social media post with a picture of her daughter in a skimpy outfit, some sort of corset top and very sheer see through skirt dress. The mother was not happy with what she saw. Understandable. The remainder of the call was focused on the money the mother and father, I presume, and is spending to support her. You told her stop paying for college. The call continued with you asking what else the parents are paying for and advised the parents to stop paying for that too. The phone, the housing, etc. The call ended with you making sure the mother conveyed to her daughter that their withdrawing of support for her college education was not punitive. This. This was very important. You stated. Here is my confusion. How is it not punitive? How is her daughter's dress and social media posting related to a college education? Everybody hang on to all these thoughts. They're very exciting. I understand not funding clothing. I understand not funding her phone, the mechanism by which she posted the thing which the mother does not approve of, but I do not understand how how our education has any bearing in this topic. I'm so excited I can't wait to the end. Why isn't her college funding contingent on making good grades? Something that is actually related to the money they're spending, similar to requirements for scholarship students. There's a difference between a family and a government or business entity giving a scholarship. Those are usually just based on performance. In a family, it's different. Why not guide the parent to talk to the child about natural consequences of posting such things? I think I have to break my promise. She's in college. You really think she doesn't know the consequences of putting sexually oriented stuff where she can be recognized in public? Come on. Come on. Okay, there are many great points to be made here. Focus on body versus brains. Future job possibilities being thwarted, Attracting the wrong kind of friends and mates. Where is the differentiation between parent and child here? How in this situation is the child becoming their own versus being an extension of the parent? Hang on to that thought again too. What is so damning about her actions that warrants a response that in my mind goes beyond natural consequences and crosses into punitive meant to control shame or harm. Hang on to that too.
