How to Be a Good Parent
6/21/202614 min
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First 90 secondsDr. Laura Schlessinger· Host0:00
Thank you for listening to my morning monologue, brought to you by Golden Crest Metals, helping everyday investors protect what they've worked so hard to build by adding gold and silver to retirement portfolios. Learn more at goldencrestmetals.com/protect. Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph, and connect with me twenty four seven at drlaura.com. Okay. How to be a good parent. Number one, you actually have to be there. The nonsense about quality time makes up for quantity time is just as I said, nonsense. You're not there, you're not there. When you were dating and nobody was there, you didn't feel loved and care taken and important and like the person really cared about you. Well, kids feel the same way. So when you dump them in daycare or even have somebody else take care of them nanny style, it's not you. You can't be a good mother if you're not there to do mother. Then you're the bio mother. Somebody else is performing the tasks of mother. So the first thing you need to do, and if you're in the process of deciding whether or not to become a parent, you have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be there. That's number one. Number one. Number two is