Kids Don't Care What Their Address Is
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Thanks for listening to my Call of the Day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 111. Andrea, welcome to the program. Good morning, Dr. Laura. Thank you so much for taking my call this morning.

You're welcome. I've been a longtime listener. However, I have had some changes in the last five, six years with my routine. And so I unfortunately haven't had the opportunity to listen to your advice and recently stumbled again upon your channel. And I was like, oh, I could really use some guidance right now. So thank you again. We also have podcasts so you could listen to calls whenever. Oh, great.

Yeah, that's a good reminder. I need to keep that handy. Okay. What can I help you with? Thank you. Well, you know, in the last five years, I became a mom. I'm 39 years old. And at the time, I had a job that provided me a lot of flexibility. I was home half the time. I was making decent living, etc. Unfortunately,

Unfortunately, my job had some changes where I was displaced for 10 months. I was at home with my five-year-old and my three-year-old, and I got to say they were the best 10 months of my life. I was finally super hands-on with them. I didn't have an email to take me away from being present with them. However, in December of last year, I was...

looking at openings and I just applied thinking nothing's going to come of it. Long story short. And we, at the time too, my husband and I were motivated to try to buy a home to get ourselves settled into the new city that we had just, we had recently moved from Texas to California. And, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh my God. How much do I have to scream to get you to stop? You tell me that you,

concerned about finances you moved to california what are you both smoking some funny dope in texas no the the timing was we we were struck with not some great timing we got transferred over my husband's job moved us to california uh before i was no he accepted a job to move to california where wherever he was paid with our tax rate here he made less probably take home

I can't believe anybody moved to California on purpose. Well, we're from California, so we have lots of family and friends, and this is the lifestyle that... Crazy. Being in Texas, that was no way of living. I know, but we are happier here. That's no question about that. Okay. Well, then don't complain about the money, and you're not... I was going to say it, but I won't. I'll let you say it. Go ahead. So last year, as I said, I got a job.

um however it's a role that does not provide a lot of work-life balance I am in an office five days a week and so we're at a position now where we're really trying to decide do I continue to work until we can no of course not you're a mother of course not yeah I mean I don't even understand why this is even a thought

Do you really think that anybody can substitute for the love and responsiveness and attention and warmth of a mother? And do you think that at the age of your children, that doesn't matter?

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How do you think their brain turns out differently? Seriously. Doesn't anybody study this stuff? They just talk about jobs? Yeah. You're needed and you can't be replaced. You can be replaced five minutes ago in any job you take. True. It's true.

It's true. And I get mixed up thinking, okay, we want to provide that forever home for our family, but I'm missing out. Again, your kids don't care what their address is. Your kids don't care about their address. They don't care if it's a house, a condo, a rented guest cottage. They don't care. Okay. Thank you. Why do adults think kids care? They don't.

They want love and attention and warmth and support and fun. Yeah, being present. Yes. And they grow up extremely fast. In five years, I can't believe I already have a five-year-old. When you used to listen to the show, what percentage of people, this is rhetorical, don't answer it, what percentage of people blamed their current state of mind on their early childhood? That's how important it is. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

That's a good point. Good reminder. I mean, if you were your kid's age, do you want to be raised by a nanny, a daycare, a babysitter, or you as a mommy? Yeah, me. 100%. Well, there you are then. There is no thought here. You married a man. His job is to provide and protect. Let him do it. And he's extremely supportive. I'm the one that I'm like, well, let me get that house first. But

Time is ticking. Yes, and you can't get it back. I can wait, but this time I cannot get back. None of it. And there's a price to pay. When I first started in radio and I was on late at night on, where was I? KFI. I was on late at night and I got a call from a mother. It was like 11 o'clock at night. All upset. She works full time and the little baby dash toddler somewhere in that

was calling the nanny mom and I said, because she's performing the job, you're not. You made a choice. Yeah. It's something that it hasn't felt right since I've been back at work and everything's just been temporary, but now it's just making that decision to let go of this role because I got to keep my priorities and I don't want to have regrets in 15 years thinking I was in the office. I didn't raise my kids for what? Yeah.

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