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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys. Here we are last break of the
day on this Thursday. And Steve, before we get out
of here, we had another phone call for you. It's
from Lynnee out of North Carolina. She left a message
about raising daughters.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hello, Steve, my name is Linee and I'm in North Carolina.
I want to say that I thank you for being
the father that you are for your girl. When I
listen to you say tell, the advice that you give
your girls and motivates me, especially as a single mother
trying to take care of my daughter by myself. It
(00:36):
gets really hard, especially with her dad being only ten
minutes away and don't do anything. But I just want
to thank you for the advice that you give your girls,
because when you speak on the advice, it's actually helping
myself and I'm sure other females as well. Thank you
and you have a good day. God bless you well.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I would like to say first law to single mothers
who have daughters. I don't think anybody can do a
better job of raising those girls that a woman can,
because women know all the intricacies of being female. So
being a father of daughters is very helpful in that
(01:21):
I can teach my daughters the male viewpoint so that
they are aware of how men think. But I in
no way am better at it than their mother, because
their mother can advise them on every level of being
a woman and a girl, and I can't. So I
appreciate what you're saying, but I have their ability to
(01:46):
teach my daughters the male viewpoint, which I try to get. Now,
listen to me. They have to do it on their own,
and they have to learn from their mistakes. Your children
are not going to be mistake free. You can tell
them all, you won't. At one point in time, they
gonna do something so counter to everything you've ever taught them,
(02:07):
because that's what they're going to do. That's what I did.
I made mistake after mistake after mistake, even after my
father told me, because that's the only way you learn.
You learn through trial and error, and you're gonna make mistakes.
So single mother's out there, please don't beat yourself up
because you're doing a wonderful job. You are doing a
(02:28):
wonderful job, and there are single mothers out there such
a thankless job of being a single parent because you
don't get the real benefit until they're grown. You know,
every now and then in your child will say thank
you for something. But the sad thing about being a
parent is they really not gonna get the true real
value of who you are and what you did until
(02:49):
they're full grown. Like it's rewarding for me now to
hear my son say stuff that I talk to them about.
You know, I'll be listening to them talk to each other,
and I like, one time I was listening to my
boys talk to each other and they say, hey, man,
hold on, remember what Dad told us now, And I'll
be sitting there going wowd it clicked. My son went
(03:12):
and texted me the other day he said, Dad, I
just won't say thanks man. Thanks son. My oldest son
told me just yesterday we were on the job because
he works for me. We were on the job and
this other guy constantly does stuff that's just uh, you
could see he was raised different. Let's just say that.
And it was another incident that happened and he had
(03:35):
a reaction to it that I would not have had.
And me and my son was getting on the elevator
to go down and he say, hey, Dad, I just
won't say thanks man. I said, what's up, son? He said, no, man,
just thanks for raising me the way you raised me,
because I see what happens when you don't have that
in your life, and so it's rewarding of that. But
(03:57):
for you single parents out there, understand this. You're not
gonna get full credit until they get good and grown,
until sometimes till they get their own Sometimes you gotta
have children to really get what your parents were saying
to you. But you're gonna get it though, So hanging
down single parents, you're doing a wonderful job. I know
it's thankless sometimes, but you're doing a wonderful job. It's like,
(04:20):
I have to talk to the mothers who bring their
boys to my camp because my campus for young boys
from homes headed up by women, and it's so hard
because these boys miss their father and we have a
moment at the ranch where we write down on a
piece of paper how you feel about your father. And
it's so much negative stuff that these kids is feeling
(04:41):
because this man has been absent. Thedn't come see them
at the game, don't send them nothing for Christmas, don't
wish them happy birthday. Man, these boys, it's just like, wow,
you know parents day at school, he don't show up.
You know all of this stuff, man, And I just
feel so bad for these boys and mothers cry like this.
(05:02):
One lady told me, she says, Steve, I just cry
all the time because I picked his father and he
turned out not to be nothing. I tell these women,
that's not your fault. That's not your fault. Everybody make mistakes,
but you can't make a man be a man. You
that's you know, we all get duped at one point
(05:24):
in time or another. So as as it's so many
what am I trying to say, so many variables, it's
so many variables in this thing called parenting. Understand that
stay focused, stay true to the course, because you have
no idea who you gave birth to. I'm pretty sure
(05:45):
Barack Obama's mama has some regrets about meeting her husband.
But little did they know that one day, this child,
through this union, had given birth to the first African
American to become President of the United States. And you
don't know who you're giving birth to. And I'm not
saying I'm all that, but my mom and daddy had
me late in life. My mama had me when she
(06:07):
was forty two years old, and my father used to
tell me all the time. I don't know why you
standing here talking to me. You ain't even supposed to
be here. And that was our little running gag all
the way till he died. But you know what, they
was ended up being proud because they didn't know that
the youngest of five was gonna turn out to be
who I was. And I'm not saying that in bragging way,
(06:27):
but you just don't know who you've given birth to.
So keep your head up. You gonna be just fine. Y'all.
Have a great one today. Talk to God today. He
would absolutely love to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, ill at you.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
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All right, guys. Here we are last break of the
day on this Thursday. And Steve, before we get out
of here, we had another phone call for you. It's
from Lynnee out of North Carolina. She left a message
about raising daughters.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hello, Steve, my name is Linee and I'm in North Carolina.
I want to say that I thank you for being
the father that you are for your girl. When I
listen to you say tell, the advice that you give
your girls and motivates me, especially as a single mother
trying to take care of my daughter by myself. It
(00:36):
gets really hard, especially with her dad being only ten
minutes away and don't do anything. But I just want
to thank you for the advice that you give your girls,
because when you speak on the advice, it's actually helping
myself and I'm sure other females as well. Thank you
and you have a good day. God bless you well.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I would like to say first law to single mothers
who have daughters. I don't think anybody can do a
better job of raising those girls that a woman can,
because women know all the intricacies of being female. So
being a father of daughters is very helpful in that
(01:21):
I can teach my daughters the male viewpoint so that
they are aware of how men think. But I in
no way am better at it than their mother, because
their mother can advise them on every level of being
a woman and a girl, and I can't. So I
appreciate what you're saying, but I have their ability to
(01:46):
teach my daughters the male viewpoint, which I try to get. Now,
listen to me. They have to do it on their own,
and they have to learn from their mistakes. Your children
are not going to be mistake free. You can tell
them all, you won't. At one point in time, they
gonna do something so counter to everything you've ever taught them,
(02:07):
because that's what they're going to do. That's what I did.
I made mistake after mistake after mistake, even after my
father told me, because that's the only way you learn.
You learn through trial and error, and you're gonna make mistakes.
So single mother's out there, please don't beat yourself up
because you're doing a wonderful job. You are doing a
(02:28):
wonderful job, and there are single mothers out there such
a thankless job of being a single parent because you
don't get the real benefit until they're grown. You know,
every now and then in your child will say thank
you for something. But the sad thing about being a
parent is they really not gonna get the true real
value of who you are and what you did until
(02:49):
they're full grown. Like it's rewarding for me now to
hear my son say stuff that I talk to them about.
You know, I'll be listening to them talk to each other,
and I like, one time I was listening to my
boys talk to each other and they say, hey, man,
hold on, remember what Dad told us now, And I'll
be sitting there going wowd it clicked. My son went
(03:12):
and texted me the other day he said, Dad, I
just won't say thanks man. Thanks son. My oldest son
told me just yesterday we were on the job because
he works for me. We were on the job and
this other guy constantly does stuff that's just uh, you
could see he was raised different. Let's just say that.
And it was another incident that happened and he had
(03:35):
a reaction to it that I would not have had.
And me and my son was getting on the elevator
to go down and he say, hey, Dad, I just
won't say thanks man. I said, what's up, son? He said, no, man,
just thanks for raising me the way you raised me,
because I see what happens when you don't have that
in your life, and so it's rewarding of that. But
(03:57):
for you single parents out there, understand this. You're not
gonna get full credit until they get good and grown,
until sometimes till they get their own Sometimes you gotta
have children to really get what your parents were saying
to you. But you're gonna get it though, So hanging
down single parents, you're doing a wonderful job. I know
it's thankless sometimes, but you're doing a wonderful job. It's like,
(04:20):
I have to talk to the mothers who bring their
boys to my camp because my campus for young boys
from homes headed up by women, and it's so hard
because these boys miss their father and we have a
moment at the ranch where we write down on a
piece of paper how you feel about your father. And
it's so much negative stuff that these kids is feeling
(04:41):
because this man has been absent. Thedn't come see them
at the game, don't send them nothing for Christmas, don't
wish them happy birthday. Man, these boys, it's just like, wow,
you know parents day at school, he don't show up.
You know all of this stuff, man, And I just
feel so bad for these boys and mothers cry like this.
(05:02):
One lady told me, she says, Steve, I just cry
all the time because I picked his father and he
turned out not to be nothing. I tell these women,
that's not your fault. That's not your fault. Everybody make mistakes,
but you can't make a man be a man. You
that's you know, we all get duped at one point
(05:24):
in time or another. So as as it's so many
what am I trying to say, so many variables, it's
so many variables in this thing called parenting. Understand that
stay focused, stay true to the course, because you have
no idea who you gave birth to. I'm pretty sure
(05:45):
Barack Obama's mama has some regrets about meeting her husband.
But little did they know that one day, this child,
through this union, had given birth to the first African
American to become President of the United States. And you
don't know who you're giving birth to. And I'm not
saying I'm all that, but my mom and daddy had
me late in life. My mama had me when she
(06:07):
was forty two years old, and my father used to
tell me all the time. I don't know why you
standing here talking to me. You ain't even supposed to
be here. And that was our little running gag all
the way till he died. But you know what, they
was ended up being proud because they didn't know that
the youngest of five was gonna turn out to be
who I was. And I'm not saying that in bragging way,
(06:27):
but you just don't know who you've given birth to.
So keep your head up. You gonna be just fine. Y'all.
Have a great one today. Talk to God today. He
would absolutely love to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, ill at you.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
For all Steve Harvey contests, no purchase necessary, void we're prohibited.
Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old,
unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules, visit Steve Harvey
FM dot com. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show
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