Posted on 05/01/2006 1:13:35 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
I think she's a remarkable woman.
"Both of my parents are now deceased. While I will share some of my personal issues with you, I am not – as are the other contributors to this book – anonymous, and I don't wish to do damage to my parents even after their deaths.
By the time of this last conversation with him, I had pulled back the lens and looked at him with objectivity. I was not the little girl trying to get approval from her dad. I was a grown, competent woman looking at a man who had been petty, insensitive, mean, thoughtless, demeaning and downright unloving, all for the sake of his own ego."
Either this woman needs an editor or big-time counseling.
When my mother died, I didn't mourn.
IMO Dr. Laura would have been better off not writing this book.
Articles such as this always bring out an amazing number of Dr. Laura bashers.
Makes you wonder about their motivations, mostly.
bump for later
Man! Poor Laura. Now wonder she chose a career therapy.
It sounds like she had a bad childhood. This explains her personality. I respect her views for the most part, but I don't respect her behavior. I've never liked how she makes money by tearing into pathetic callers on her show. I've listened to her program about twenty times when travelling. I've never really learned anything from her show, except that there alot of troubled masochistic people in this country who want to get onto the radio even if it leads to being scolded, or worse, on the air.
< I think she's a remarkable woman. >
Dittos.
I see she waited until her parents died and weren't able to tell their side of the story before she released this.
There are a lot of people who don't have loving parents. Dr. Laura's message to them is don't screw up the relationship with your children because of your parents. A lot of people fall into that trap and you end up with generation after generation of bad parents.
Almost everyone who calls in to her show knows the moral answer to their problem. They just need it spelled out and sometimes verbally "smacked" into them.
Because she is a cold, judgemental holly roller. Parts of her message are dead on but the superiority attitude turns people off.
A great example, I can´t wait to read the book
"Makes you wonder about their motivations, mostly."
Yep. I generally think they don't like her hard advice.
(That said, I agree with her about 60% of the time.)
Nothing to do with her advice. I don't like how snippy and rude she is. She is another symptom of the decline of civility in this country.
"Articles such as this always bring out an amazing number of Dr. Laura bashers. Makes you wonder about their motivations, mostly."
Maybe because every time I listened to her show she was biting off the head of whatever poor soul decided to call her up. Just seems like a mean-spirited and holier-than-thou kind of person whom I don't care for much at all.
Have you ever heard her show? Because I've listened to, and I couldn't disagree with your assessment more.
I just finished this book over the weekend and I can't tell you how much useful and wonderful information I got out of it...she captured so many things I have been trying to articulate to my significant other.
It was a not so gentle kick in the ass...to take what life puts before you and decide if you are a glass half full or half empty kind of person....
Wow. This one made me weepy. I am so fortunate to have loving parents and siblings.
Laura rocks!
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