Dennis Prager Show - Don't Take Your Mom For Granted
Aired: 2024-05-14
Duration: 04:11


=== Daughter's Guilt (04:07) ===

[00:00:03]  But by a woman psychoanalyst who, psychotherapist, I think psychoanalyst, says, don't take your mother for granted and spend time with her, care for her, contact her, and of course the same, I would add, for fathers.
[00:00:27]  Just a few of the comments in the comments section.
[00:00:30]  Following the article.
[00:00:34]  Message from your mother.
[00:00:39]  She forgives you for not being there at that moment to hold her hand because you took care of her all those other times.
[00:00:48]  Dawn F. It's very hard to forgive oneself that.
[00:00:52]  I wasn't the daughter my mother wanted or understood.
[00:00:55]  There was a chasm between us.
[00:00:58]  Neither of us can get across.
[00:01:01]  She died decades ago now.
[00:01:03]  I kick myself for not taking her out shopping or to lunch occasionally.
[00:01:09]  How hard would that have been?
[00:01:12]  She writes, phew, what stupidity.
[00:01:18]  Yes, I kick myself for not taking her out shopping or to lunch occasionally.
[00:01:24]  How hard would that have been?
[00:01:29]  And another comment by a woman named Grace Hinton.
[00:01:33]  My adult son called me today wanting some advice.
[00:01:37]  Best Mother's Day gift I could ever get.
[00:01:43]  And the final comment I'm reading to you from a reader named Deborah Wright.
[00:01:52]  Agreed.
[00:01:53]  It's a gift when your adult children ask for advice.
[00:01:56]  It makes you feel wanted and respected.
[00:02:00]  Our Western culture isn't good at respecting elderly.
[00:02:08]  When I read that, I thought of the portion of the Torah that Jews all over the world read this past Sabbath.
[00:02:17]  Jews divide the Torah into 52 readings for the 52 Sabbaths.
[00:02:24]  This one was from Leviticus.
[00:02:30]  19. And it's a fascinating law.
[00:02:38]  You shall stand up before an elderly person.
[00:02:45]  Isn't that interesting?
[00:02:50]  Of course, the Bible is quaint at Harvard.
[00:02:59]  Jacques Derrida is in.
[00:03:04]  Leviticus is out.
[00:03:06]  Correct?
[00:03:08]  Yep.
[00:03:11]  What are you thinking?
[00:03:12]  I know your face.
[00:03:15]  How did Jacques Derrida get into it?
[00:03:17]  No, he didn't.
[00:03:18]  I'm saying, who do they read?
[00:03:20]  They don't read Leviticus.
[00:03:22]  Yeah, they read Jacques Derrida.
[00:03:24]  They read the post-modernists.
[00:03:31]  Our Western culture isn't good at respecting elderly.
[00:03:37]  How many kids are taught?
[00:03:38]  I was taught.
[00:03:39]  I'm sure, were you taught?
[00:03:40]  I'll bet you were taught.
[00:03:42]  If a person older than you walks into the room, absolutely, right?
[00:03:46]  I mean, to this day, it never ends.
[00:03:48]  But who needs that quaint stuff?
[00:03:58]  Okay.
[00:04:00]  Well, look at the Hitler Youth that they produce at our universities.
[00:04:04]  They are our version of the Hitler Youth.
[00:04:08]  They're not the same as the Hitler Youth.
[00:04:09]  They're our version of it.