Social Media Advice - 11.13.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is from Gary on Steve Harvey FM. Gary says,
over the summer, I spent a lot of time with
my brother and his kids, and we had fun. This
past week, my wife confronted me, asking me why I
seem to enjoy spending more time with my nephews than
with our own kids, and I said, because I do.
They don't whine, they don't ask me for stuff constantly,

(00:22):
they don't constantly talk about all the things they don't have,
and they're more fun. I'm now learning that this was
the wrong thing to say, even if I was thinking it.
How do I get back into my wife's good graces
and enjoy being around my own kids again?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I don't know why you said that.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Wow, he was thinking.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
And number one, you raised them. You raised the whiners
and complainers, You raised the talking about what that ain't got.
You raised them. So now, yeah, you go over your
brother's how Dan got to ask you for nothing because
they got a daddy. So broh, I just think you
are You raised the kids the wrong way. You want

(01:05):
them to act a certain way, you want them to
act like your nephews and nieces. But bro but you
shouldn't have said that. You ain't gonna get that one
back now. You fin to eat that sandwich. That's your sandwich, dog,
You finn to eat that hope for a while. Yeah,
you might as well put a name to a subway
Jersey Mike's Yeah, firehouse. You need to put a name

(01:29):
to it, because you're gonna be eating on that one
for a while. Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Wow, all right, we have another one. This is from
Lisa and Steve Harvey FM. Lisa says, my best friend
and I have kids who are close in age, and
over the past couple of years she became really into
gentle parenting. However, her six year old son gets away
with everything. He hits, throws toy, screams when he doesn't
get his way, and she just calm lee talks it

(01:54):
through while the rest of us are trying to keep
our own kids from getting hurt. I love her dearly,
but I've started dreading our playdates because her son's behavior
is so out of control. Would I be a terrible
friend if I gently told her that her approach just
isn't working and her kid as bad as you know what.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Well, y'all not gonna be friends no more. So know
that because you're not only gonna talk to her about
her parenting. You're gonna be talking about her child. So
I don't see how this's gonna work out for you.
Now I have experience with that because I have an
employee that does gentle parenting, and I had him over

(02:36):
at the house with the with the grandkids playing in
the pool, and then my couple other people bought their
kids and they playing in the pool. Well, this little boy,
when he liked you, he grabbed your face cheeks with
his hands because he and squeeze. I mean, man, he

(02:56):
looking that's wrong like you. But he greets his teeth, don't.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
You know.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
And he did this to this little black girl and
she and the father was right there, one of my
son's friends. He said, hey, man, the f wrong with you? Now?
He talking to the baby. Now the baby ain't even two.
He didn't ask the not two year old, what the

(03:23):
earth wrong with you? I heard him. The parents they
don't they don't do nothing. They just sit over there.
So I went over there and pulled him to the side.
I say, hey, brother, cause this is my son's friend.
I said, hey, brother, listen to this. They do gentle
parent She said, ma'am, But mister Harvey. Did you see
the way he grabbed my baby face. I said, yes, sir,

(03:45):
he do that all the time. He said, what they
gonna do? I said, they ain't gonna do that. He said, well,
I'm gonna do something. I said, yeah, I know, I
know how you feel, but don't do that.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Though, don't you.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Don't do do I've watched it, man, I've seen gentle
parents up close, because there's a lot of it nowadays.
But what I try to teach people who do that,
I've actually pulled them to the side and say, hey,
let me explain something to You have a little boy.
If you do not introduce the term discipline to your
little boy, you're going to have an undisciplined boy. If

(04:18):
you have an undisciplined boy, two things are gonna happen.
He gonna go to prison or somebody gonna do something
to it. You can't be a boy and not have discipline.
You can't be a girl that don't have discipline. So
you need to introduce discipline to your children. I don't
know how you got them thinking they can do what
they want to do. That's my closing remarks today.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
All right, well, thank you. Coming up, we'll have more
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