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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if
you need advice and relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to STEVEHARVIFM dot com and
click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter
live on the air, just like we're going to read
this one right here, right now, and you never know
it could be yours.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Buckle up, Hold on time here heayo morning bles, come it.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hold on time.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We got a boy. It is Strawberry Letter. Love it
all right, nephew.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Thank you? Subject your daydreaming, you blacked out. I'm looking
at TV. Love subject. Why would my son joke like that?
Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm thirty seven and married. My husband
and I have an eight year old son and a
five year old daughter. Our children are with me twenty
four to seven, and it makes my husband jealous. The
(00:52):
children have my buddly personality and we do tiktoks and
other fun videos, and my husband hates that. My son
wants to be an entertainer, so he took an acting
class over the summer and he's been acting out since then.
He's become the class clown and my husband had to
sign a note from the school because he was being
a jokester in class. He has also been showing out
(01:15):
at home too. He insulted his aunt after she got
a bad haircut. My husband had to pop him hard
on his backside to stop him from laughing about it. Lately,
he has been joking about places that I take him
and his sister and things I buy them. For example,
his dad asked where he had been. He told his
(01:37):
dad that we went grocery shopping and to visit his
mom's boyfriend. Another time, my husband asked our son about
a pair of shoes he got, and my son said
that his mom's boyfriend help him pick them out. Same
thing with the new jersey that I ordered for him
after my husband said he didn't need it, he told
my husband that his mom's boyfriend got it for him
(01:58):
since he wouldn't buy it. My husband and doesn't get
mad at her son. He keeps getting mad at me,
like I would really take our children around another man.
He has even asked our five year old daughter if
she's ever met a man when she's with mommy. Of course,
the child said yes. My husband knows our son is
out of control and needs discipline, but he's more focused
(02:20):
on what I'm doing. Why would my son joke like that? Okay,
and your son is only eight years old. Wow, I
guess you've got a little comedian on your hands. But
no eight year old really talks like that. He's had
to have heard some grown person say those things before,
and he's really trying to get a laugh out of
(02:40):
you and your husband. He loves the attention he gets
at school from saying these crazy things too, And he
loves the attention he gets from making people laugh period,
except for you and your husband are laughing. You all
need to talk to him about his material. He's still
only eight years old, and maybe he doesn't quite get
that saying mom's boyfriend did this or did that is
(03:03):
not cool and it's causing problems with you and his dad.
This letter is making me think of some of the
crazy stories that you've told us, Steve, about when you
were a kid and you were the class clown and
all that you got it in trouble too. No, but
you never did that. I know, but you told us
some crazy stories, but never this. Anyway, you did all right,
(03:26):
You know, you were a funny kid growing up in
all of that these parents need to check their son
for real because he needs some guidance.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Steve, why would my son joke like that, cause you're
all leddy. That's really where we're at. He ate. I
don't give it damn what he want to be when
he grew up. We're gonna wait till we grow up
to be it. That's what we're gonna do. You thirty seven,
Your husband and I got an eight year old boy
and a five year old girl. The children are with
(03:56):
you twenty four seven, and it makes my husband jealous.
The children have your bubbly personality. They making TikTok videos
they go to some of and so your son said
he wanted to be actors. So they put him in
the acting class over the summer, and he's been acting
out every since then. He has become the class clown.
(04:18):
Your husband had to sign a note from the school
because he's being a jokester in class. He's also been
showing out at home. He's insulted his aunt after she
got a bad haircut. My husband had to pop him
hard on his backside to stop him from laughing out
loud about it. That's happened to me? What that's happened
(04:39):
to me? What or We was coming from church one
day and my aunt Agnes tripped up the steps and
fell on her breast, and she was heavy breasted. In
the fall up the steps tore her bra off, her
off her chest, and when she stood up she only
had one side of her was in the bro on
(05:00):
the other half was out. Tell you, so you talk
about Holly, I couldn't breathe. I was ten and I
was stretched out in the grass. Lang, I'm talking about
I'm talking about man. It was nothing, nothing nobody can
(05:20):
say to me. Because I saw my brother laughing. He
was eleven years older than me. He was on the
porch and he saw that he laughed. So I was gone.
Now my daddy had to come downstairs and help her out.
My mama, Lord Jesus, Agnes, have you hurt yourself? I'm
(05:41):
in the grass. I can't. I'm vomiting at this point.
Needless to say, I got ass whipping for that because
she actually hurt herself, which actually made it even funnier
than me. You know what, well, I've never liked my
(06:03):
aunt Agnes, and she's never cared for me. So where
we're at with this?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Right here, this kid. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Then he's also been joking about places he take him
and his system. For example, his dad's asked what we
had been. He told his dad we went grocery shopping
and to visit his mama's boyfriend. Let me tell you
something I said that to my daddy. None of the
rest of this letter is even possible, okay, because all
(06:33):
the rest of this letter is about the crime evidenced,
the story, the yellow tape, the chalk marks.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We'll have part two of your response coming up at
twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's Strawberry letter subject
why would my son joke like that? We'll get back
into it right after this. You're listening Morning show, All right,
Come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter. The subject
is is why would my son joke like that?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, and like I said, because y'all let him. He's
eight years old and he got a five year old sister.
Y'all to send him to an acting class. Now he's
act out, he's become the class clown, and the jokes
to I was never the class clown. I just did
little stuff, you know, when teacher wasn't listening. But I
was never the class clown like jump up, look at me,
look at me. I was never that. I was never
(07:22):
allowed to be. But he got in trouble one time
because his aunt had a bad haircut, and he joked
about it and he wouldn't stop laughing. His daddy had
to poppy mo onents behind real hard. That reminded me
of the time where he's coming from church and my
aunt Agnes fell up the steps outside and she was
heavy chested woman, and when she failed, it told her
(07:43):
brawl for chest and only one of her was still
in the broad the other one had came out. That
to me, the visual was in. I was incredible. Was
the greatest laughs I've ever had. I was in the
front lawn stretched out. I mean I couldn't breathe, man,
I hasked him cramps. That's the first time I had
a stomach cramp from laughing. So I was stretching out.
(08:04):
Needless to say, I got my ass well for that.
But that's what should have happened to you, boy. But
lately he been joking about places that take him and
assists said they went grocery shopping one time, and then
he told his daddy that while they was out, they
went grocery shopping and then went to visit day mama's boyfriend. Now,
like I said, if I'd have told my daddy that joke,
this whole letter would have been different. Wouldn't have been
(08:25):
no more words. It would have been just about when
the police came and how many bodies was in the
chalk lines. And then another time your husband asked your
son about a pair of shoes he got, your son
said his mama's boyfriend helped him pick him out. Then
the same thing with a new jersey I ordered for him.
After my husband said he didn't need it. He told
my husband and my boyfriend got it for him since
(08:47):
he wouldn't buy it. Wait a minute, man, the fact
that this boy feels comfortable enough to say this to
his father is further evidence that there's no consequences in
this boy's life, so he running free to say it
do whatever he want to do. I have four warned
people about this before, but if you have a boy
that you're raising that doesn't have discipline, he's headed for
(09:09):
two places prison on early grade. Because the people out
here in these streets gonna teach him what discipline is.
So if you don't, they will My husband doesn't get
mad at our son. He keeps getting mad at me,
like I would really take our children around another man.
He has even asked our five year old daughter she's
ever met a man when she was out with mommy.
(09:30):
Of course, the child said yes. My husband knows our
son is out of control and needs discipline, but he's
more focused on what I am I doing. Why wouldn't
my son joke like that number one? Cause y'all let it.
First of all, it ain't a joke if it's not true,
it's a lie. Do you know what would happen to
me if I lied to my parents and they knew it, Doug,
(09:53):
I wasn't allowed to lie to them. You all are
allowing this boy too much freedom just because he won't
to be an actor. Now he a little jokes up
at the school now If it's not now, I don't
know why he keep coming up with this man thing. Lady.
I don't know if you know there's a guy really
somewhere A couple of times he's seen, but he keep
(10:15):
bringing up this boyfriend. It's kind of hard for me
to imagine this boy's imagining that, But that's up to you.
I'm gonna let you work through that. That's your biz,
is none of mine. But if he is completely making
this up, then it's time for you to start checking him.
Tell your daddy won't lie again, and see what happened
to you. There has to be consequences for bad behavior.
(10:40):
If you keep allowing bad behavior to exist in a child,
then you the one gonna be dealing with it the
rest of your life. And your husband, man, if he
don't check this boy, he's headed down the wrong path.
That's all I can tell you. But why is your
son joke like this? Because he's allowed to period, That's
(11:01):
all to it, And it's no more needs to be
said about this. When are y'all gonna put y'all son
in order get him the line up? Now, I'm not
gonna tell you how I would do it, because that's
considered not illegal anymore. But that's really what's wrong with
our world today. See, everybody got freedoms and you got
like everything. Now, child got all these freedoms. No he don't, No,
(11:22):
they don't. Y'all got so many freedoms. Now, y'all letting
the children make all their own decisions and they don't
have a mental capacity to make a lot of these
decisions you putting on them. They just don't. I got
grandkids now, and I be listening to some of the
stuff they be saying. I'm going this boy's damn thear's stupid,
you know what I mean. It's just damn there. Based
on the last comment conversation we had, I give you
(11:44):
an example. My grandson goes to a Halloween party the
other day. His costume is this blow up alien. But
the blow up part it looks like he's in the
alien's arms, so it's his arms, but it looked like
the holding him off the ground that blow up legs
in front, but it's his legs down the ground. It's
(12:05):
a great costume. I've never seen one that would have
been my favorite. He wants to sleep in it. Well, okay,
we can't sleep in this because it's blowed up. This
is not gonna be a comfortable sleep But I want
to sleep in it, Papa, Okay, but you can't though,
So in the middle of the night, I hit his
(12:25):
noise in the room. I go in the room. He
got to pump out. He trying to pump it up
so he can get in it and sleep in it. Now,
after I told him, you can't sleep in it, so
I fixed it. So now we now we can't blow
the costume up no more because I busted it in it.
Uh huh yeah, So now ain't no more blowing it
up because you don't know how to listen Halloween over anyway.
(12:47):
So that's not.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Started yet.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Oh, it ain't till Thursday first. God damn, I got
to buy it, no one, yes.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yes, yes, and all right. You can comment on Today's
Strawberry Letter on Instagram and Facebook at Steve HARBFM, and
also check us out on the Strawberry Letter podcast on
the free iHeartRadio app. Now coming up next to his
junior with some good news for you, Steve on Start
(13:21):
Talk right after this. You're listening to Harvey Morning Show.
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if
you need advice and relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to STEVEHARVIFM dot com and
click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter
live on the air, just like we're going to read
this one right here, right now, and you never know
it could be yours.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Buckle up, Hold on time here heayo morning bles, come it.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hold on time.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We got a boy. It is Strawberry Letter. Love it
all right, nephew.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Thank you? Subject your daydreaming, you blacked out. I'm looking
at TV. Love subject. Why would my son joke like that?
Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm thirty seven and married. My husband
and I have an eight year old son and a
five year old daughter. Our children are with me twenty
four to seven, and it makes my husband jealous. The
(00:52):
children have my buddly personality and we do tiktoks and
other fun videos, and my husband hates that. My son
wants to be an entertainer, so he took an acting
class over the summer and he's been acting out since then.
He's become the class clown and my husband had to
sign a note from the school because he was being
a jokester in class. He has also been showing out
(01:15):
at home too. He insulted his aunt after she got
a bad haircut. My husband had to pop him hard
on his backside to stop him from laughing about it. Lately,
he has been joking about places that I take him
and his sister and things I buy them. For example,
his dad asked where he had been. He told his
(01:37):
dad that we went grocery shopping and to visit his
mom's boyfriend. Another time, my husband asked our son about
a pair of shoes he got, and my son said
that his mom's boyfriend help him pick them out. Same
thing with the new jersey that I ordered for him
after my husband said he didn't need it, he told
my husband that his mom's boyfriend got it for him
(01:58):
since he wouldn't buy it. My husband and doesn't get
mad at her son. He keeps getting mad at me,
like I would really take our children around another man.
He has even asked our five year old daughter if
she's ever met a man when she's with mommy. Of course,
the child said yes. My husband knows our son is
out of control and needs discipline, but he's more focused
(02:20):
on what I'm doing. Why would my son joke like that? Okay,
and your son is only eight years old. Wow, I
guess you've got a little comedian on your hands. But
no eight year old really talks like that. He's had
to have heard some grown person say those things before,
and he's really trying to get a laugh out of
(02:40):
you and your husband. He loves the attention he gets
at school from saying these crazy things too, And he
loves the attention he gets from making people laugh period,
except for you and your husband are laughing. You all
need to talk to him about his material. He's still
only eight years old, and maybe he doesn't quite get
that saying mom's boyfriend did this or did that is
(03:03):
not cool and it's causing problems with you and his dad.
This letter is making me think of some of the
crazy stories that you've told us, Steve, about when you
were a kid and you were the class clown and
all that you got it in trouble too. No, but
you never did that. I know, but you told us
some crazy stories, but never this. Anyway, you did all right,
(03:26):
You know, you were a funny kid growing up in
all of that these parents need to check their son
for real because he needs some guidance.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Steve, why would my son joke like that, cause you're
all leddy. That's really where we're at. He ate. I
don't give it damn what he want to be when
he grew up. We're gonna wait till we grow up
to be it. That's what we're gonna do. You thirty seven,
Your husband and I got an eight year old boy
and a five year old girl. The children are with
(03:56):
you twenty four seven, and it makes my husband jealous.
The children have your bubbly personality. They making TikTok videos
they go to some of and so your son said
he wanted to be actors. So they put him in
the acting class over the summer, and he's been acting
out every since then. He has become the class clown.
(04:18):
Your husband had to sign a note from the school
because he's being a jokester in class. He's also been
showing out at home. He's insulted his aunt after she
got a bad haircut. My husband had to pop him
hard on his backside to stop him from laughing out
loud about it. That's happened to me? What that's happened
(04:39):
to me? What or We was coming from church one
day and my aunt Agnes tripped up the steps and
fell on her breast, and she was heavy breasted. In
the fall up the steps tore her bra off, her
off her chest, and when she stood up she only
had one side of her was in the bro on
(05:00):
the other half was out. Tell you, so you talk
about Holly, I couldn't breathe. I was ten and I
was stretched out in the grass. Lang, I'm talking about
I'm talking about man. It was nothing, nothing nobody can
(05:20):
say to me. Because I saw my brother laughing. He
was eleven years older than me. He was on the
porch and he saw that he laughed. So I was gone.
Now my daddy had to come downstairs and help her out.
My mama, Lord Jesus, Agnes, have you hurt yourself? I'm
(05:41):
in the grass. I can't. I'm vomiting at this point.
Needless to say, I got ass whipping for that because
she actually hurt herself, which actually made it even funnier
than me. You know what, well, I've never liked my
(06:03):
aunt Agnes, and she's never cared for me. So where
we're at with this?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Right here, this kid. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Then he's also been joking about places he take him
and his system. For example, his dad's asked what we
had been. He told his dad we went grocery shopping
and to visit his mama's boyfriend. Let me tell you
something I said that to my daddy. None of the
rest of this letter is even possible, okay, because all
(06:33):
the rest of this letter is about the crime evidenced,
the story, the yellow tape, the chalk marks.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We'll have part two of your response coming up at
twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's Strawberry letter subject
why would my son joke like that? We'll get back
into it right after this. You're listening Morning show, All right,
Come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter. The subject
is is why would my son joke like that?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, and like I said, because y'all let him. He's
eight years old and he got a five year old sister.
Y'all to send him to an acting class. Now he's
act out, he's become the class clown, and the jokes
to I was never the class clown. I just did
little stuff, you know, when teacher wasn't listening. But I
was never the class clown like jump up, look at me,
look at me. I was never that. I was never
(07:22):
allowed to be. But he got in trouble one time
because his aunt had a bad haircut, and he joked
about it and he wouldn't stop laughing. His daddy had
to poppy mo onents behind real hard. That reminded me
of the time where he's coming from church and my
aunt Agnes fell up the steps outside and she was
heavy chested woman, and when she failed, it told her
(07:43):
brawl for chest and only one of her was still
in the broad the other one had came out. That
to me, the visual was in. I was incredible. Was
the greatest laughs I've ever had. I was in the
front lawn stretched out. I mean I couldn't breathe, man,
I hasked him cramps. That's the first time I had
a stomach cramp from laughing. So I was stretching out.
(08:04):
Needless to say, I got my ass well for that.
But that's what should have happened to you, boy. But
lately he been joking about places that take him and
assists said they went grocery shopping one time, and then
he told his daddy that while they was out, they
went grocery shopping and then went to visit day mama's boyfriend. Now,
like I said, if I'd have told my daddy that joke,
this whole letter would have been different. Wouldn't have been
(08:25):
no more words. It would have been just about when
the police came and how many bodies was in the
chalk lines. And then another time your husband asked your
son about a pair of shoes he got, your son
said his mama's boyfriend helped him pick him out. Then
the same thing with a new jersey I ordered for him.
After my husband said he didn't need it. He told
my husband and my boyfriend got it for him since
(08:47):
he wouldn't buy it. Wait a minute, man, the fact
that this boy feels comfortable enough to say this to
his father is further evidence that there's no consequences in
this boy's life, so he running free to say it
do whatever he want to do. I have four warned
people about this before, but if you have a boy
that you're raising that doesn't have discipline, he's headed for
(09:09):
two places prison on early grade. Because the people out
here in these streets gonna teach him what discipline is.
So if you don't, they will My husband doesn't get
mad at our son. He keeps getting mad at me,
like I would really take our children around another man.
He has even asked our five year old daughter she's
ever met a man when she was out with mommy.
(09:30):
Of course, the child said yes. My husband knows our
son is out of control and needs discipline, but he's
more focused on what I am I doing. Why wouldn't
my son joke like that number one? Cause y'all let it.
First of all, it ain't a joke if it's not true,
it's a lie. Do you know what would happen to
me if I lied to my parents and they knew it, Doug,
(09:53):
I wasn't allowed to lie to them. You all are
allowing this boy too much freedom just because he won't
to be an actor. Now he a little jokes up
at the school now If it's not now, I don't
know why he keep coming up with this man thing. Lady.
I don't know if you know there's a guy really
somewhere A couple of times he's seen, but he keep
(10:15):
bringing up this boyfriend. It's kind of hard for me
to imagine this boy's imagining that, But that's up to you.
I'm gonna let you work through that. That's your biz,
is none of mine. But if he is completely making
this up, then it's time for you to start checking him.
Tell your daddy won't lie again, and see what happened
to you. There has to be consequences for bad behavior.
(10:40):
If you keep allowing bad behavior to exist in a child,
then you the one gonna be dealing with it the
rest of your life. And your husband, man, if he
don't check this boy, he's headed down the wrong path.
That's all I can tell you. But why is your
son joke like this? Because he's allowed to period, That's
(11:01):
all to it, And it's no more needs to be
said about this. When are y'all gonna put y'all son
in order get him the line up? Now, I'm not
gonna tell you how I would do it, because that's
considered not illegal anymore. But that's really what's wrong with
our world today. See, everybody got freedoms and you got
like everything. Now, child got all these freedoms. No he don't, No,
(11:22):
they don't. Y'all got so many freedoms. Now, y'all letting
the children make all their own decisions and they don't
have a mental capacity to make a lot of these
decisions you putting on them. They just don't. I got
grandkids now, and I be listening to some of the
stuff they be saying. I'm going this boy's damn thear's stupid,
you know what I mean. It's just damn there. Based
on the last comment conversation we had, I give you
(11:44):
an example. My grandson goes to a Halloween party the
other day. His costume is this blow up alien. But
the blow up part it looks like he's in the
alien's arms, so it's his arms, but it looked like
the holding him off the ground that blow up legs
in front, but it's his legs down the ground. It's
(12:05):
a great costume. I've never seen one that would have
been my favorite. He wants to sleep in it. Well, okay,
we can't sleep in this because it's blowed up. This
is not gonna be a comfortable sleep But I want
to sleep in it, Papa, Okay, but you can't though,
So in the middle of the night, I hit his
(12:25):
noise in the room. I go in the room. He
got to pump out. He trying to pump it up
so he can get in it and sleep in it. Now,
after I told him, you can't sleep in it, so
I fixed it. So now we now we can't blow
the costume up no more because I busted it in it.
Uh huh yeah, So now ain't no more blowing it
up because you don't know how to listen Halloween over anyway.
(12:47):
So that's not.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Started yet.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Oh, it ain't till Thursday first. God damn, I got
to buy it, no one, yes.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yes, yes, and all right. You can comment on Today's
Strawberry Letter on Instagram and Facebook at Steve HARBFM, and
also check us out on the Strawberry Letter podcast on
the free iHeartRadio app. Now coming up next to his
junior with some good news for you, Steve on Start
(13:21):
Talk right after this. You're listening to Harvey Morning Show.
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