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Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 04.10.25 · Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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