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Father and Son TikTok · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mamas. Do your mamas did you see the
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  TikTok from the dad talking to a son about digging holes all day? Well,
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  let's ask our American mamas. Ma joining us now. Our American mama
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  is Terry Edeville and Kimberly bur Listen. I had not seen this TikTok.
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  Terry, you sent it over to me, and I've got to just play.
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  If you guys don't mind, I'm just gonna play because it's amazing.
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  Here you go, all right, this is my son. He agreed to
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  do this Instagram video. Jameson how tired are you right now? Okay,
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  what have you been doing today? I've been digging holes, plenty of plants
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  and spreading much. That's right. We had to work day today. We've
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  been working hard outside it's sunny, doing physical labor, all right. So
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  I want to tell you something and to remember when you grow up and you're
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  a man as tired as you are right now, like exhausted. They're like
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  you can't lift anything. You're about to go in the house. Seamus has
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  three little brothers. Okay, Gus is probably gonna ask me I throw the
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  football Hudson's gonna want to tell me about his day. Your mom might still
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  need to cook dinner or something. I guess who might have to hold a
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  crying baby to take care of the baby. Who do you think? Yeah,
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  one of us say, you know what we gotta do. You get
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  a dig deep, I find some energy and go in there so you can
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  still be a good dad, a good father to the other sons. They're
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  left there obviously not you. But when you grow up one day, that's
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  what you've got to do. You got it? Okay? Do I need
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  to hand tis shoes? Run the stoo? We've dissolved into ugly crist such.
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  Yeah. What do y'all think of that video? So, by the
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  way, I think the kid, probably about ten years old, looked like
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  to me? Is that all right? Ten? Yeah? Made me cry,
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  I know it did. I sent it to our family thread and everybody
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  loved it because it's just what a lesson for life and the way he presented,
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  the way the father presented it to his son, who was eagerly hanging
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  on to every word. You could tell that yeah like that. This is
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  why I say the kid's not a teenager, because he was like dad's still
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  cool, right, right, Well, you can tell that this is the
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  demeanor of the father. You can tell this is kind of how he's been.
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  This didn't just happen today. I think this kid, the way he
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  was looking at his father, he revers him. And I just think it's
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  so important for men because sometimes sometimes when you're stressed at your job, and
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  you know, I will say this about Kevin sometimes, like if he comes
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  in and he's frustrated because he's had a long twelve hour shift or whatever.
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  And one time I remember saying, there are people, there are men who
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  have had that have two and three jobs that make a of what you make,
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  but they come home and they're happy to be and they are the soft
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  you know, they've come back to their home where their you know, their
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  wife is their soft place to land, and they're good and they're happy and
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  they treat people well because you're tired, because your stress doesn't give you permission
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  to not be the greatest dad and the greatest husband well. And it takes
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  a there's a tremendous amount of empathy in the dad for the mom. Mom's
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  not in the video, right, but for the dad to be thinking,
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  okay, not about the work that he's been doing, But about the work
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  the mom's been doing while he was away. That takes a tremendous amount of
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  empathy. I would say, yeah, and that little boy will never forget
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  it. Well, it's on the internet now, we won't forget it,
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  but neither will other fathers. This is I love the fact that men like
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  this and we're seeing more of this kind of substantial stuff. But I love
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  that they're putting this out there because it is inspiring other parents. This is
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  the good thing about social media. Yes, you know, we're inspired by
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  each other. So last night, this this clip reminded me of something that
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  happened last night. So I get up at four o'clock and the four thirty
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  in the morning to do weather for the Joe Pisbushow in New York. And
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  then this show we go until seven thirty at night. So my day goes
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  from four thirty am till seven thirty pm. Now when I get home,
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  right now, Bailey and Julie and Wendy, so my son and my daughter
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  and my wife are all working on a community theater place. She's directing,
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  the daughter starring. Bailey's doing a whole bunch of behind the scenes work,
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  and so they didn't get home until after, you know, nine ten o'clock
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  last night, and here I am. I'm going I was supposed to wake
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  up at four thirty, and at eleven eleven thirty, the four of us
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  were all in our room. The kids are sitting on the bed with us,
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  and we're just talking. And even though I really needed to be asleep,
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  that was quality time that I wasn't going to miss, even though I
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  had to get up at four thirty. This, you see, I'm saying.
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  It's not just I didn't have to dig holes. I'm glad I didn't
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  have to dig holes, but being aware of those opportunities in those moments,
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  I think that's a really, really good message you gave out. I love
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  it. Nighttime seems to be a time too with our children. I know
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  that when my kids were younger, they never wanted to go to bed,
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  and so it was kind of the perfect opportunity to climb up in their bed
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  and hear about their day. In earlier they didn't want to talk, you
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  know, they're like push mom off. But at nighttime it seems to be
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  And to this day, when my kids come home and their adults, they'll
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  climb up in our bed and we'll all sit and talk exactly as you described
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  and Caat just locked up. And how incredible, Steven. And at day
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  and age when teenagers want to come home and during that time want to get
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  on their phones and scroll, yeah they do. They were with y'all talking.
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  They wanted to say get away. Yeah. That was a blessing.
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  And you recognize that you can catch up on an app another time, as
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  I did this morning. If you like to askar American Mama is a question,
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  go to our website Americanground Radio dot com, slash Mama's and click on
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  the ask the Mama's button turned out vill Kimberly Bro listen, Thank you so
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  much, Thank you,