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Close Family · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question in for our American mama. The question is, dear
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  Mama, how did you get your family to be so close? So let's
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  ask our American mama, Mama and joining us now our American Mama, Terry
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  Netterville. This is one of the things that I admire about you the most
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  is how close you are with your sisters. But not just your sisters,
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  but with your your nephews and your nieces and and you're You're entire it's not
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  just your kids, it's your whole family is tight. We show up,
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  yeah right, I mean you all, you all our besties we are.
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  We grew up that way. We grew up that way, and our parents
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  and stealed this thing inside of us along with their siblings, like oh my
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  my dad's at amma side. We were a family. We were going to
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  be there for each other. We built each other up, We wanted to
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  elevate each other when we could. So we're so tight with all of our
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  cousins as well. So when Kevin and I had our children, it just
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  came naturally for me to instill those same kinds of character traits in my children.
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  But I will tell you this, this is one of the things that
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  I can say that my dad did. You know, you know, and
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  everybody that has listened for a while knows that my dad would say to us
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  as we slept, as we went to sleep, he would whisper in our
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  ears, I expect you to do great things with their life, Terry,
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  I expect you to do great things with their life. Kimberly, and on
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  and on, and we would giggle because we're like, he thinks we're asleep,
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  and we heard it. But when you put those kinds of messages into
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  the psyche of your children, they started expecting that stuff of themselves. And
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  so like there was a video I just posted of Slade the other day for
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  his birthday, and it's in his video of Kevin holding him, he's he's
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  two years old, and no, he's three years old, and he's saying,
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  everywhere we go people want to know who we are, so we tell
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  them we are the Nettervilles. Then the mighty Mighty Nettervilles. And there's the
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  song. And our kids grew up that was the bathtime music that we would
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  sing. Let's sing our family song. I mean, anybody can do it,
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  but they grew up thinking we are the mighty Nettervilles. And and then
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  my sister Kimerly and I were driving around the other day because she was in
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  town, and we were talking about this very thing, and we were talking
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  about how Dad would say to USh, golly, guys, when we walk
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  into a room, I feel like everybody just kind of looks at up there.
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  Y'all have a light around y'all. There's something about y'all that is of
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  God, and you can just feel it and sense it. So in our
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  little minds we walk into a room, we're thinking there is actual literal light
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  from heaven, you know, because he made us believe that we were something
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  special. And I was I went through our old videos and I saw a
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  video of you know, our Christmas morning, and I'm reading a letter from
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  Santa Claus to steal. He had written. Santa Claus said, I want
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  to see a real picture of Rudolph, not cartoon. I want a real
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  one. So Santa sent it. He sent a real picture of Rudolf,
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  and I was reading it. Is I I was reading the letter from Santa
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  Claus, and in it you can hear me say to steal from Santa Claus.
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  Yes, you know Rudolph's amazing. He's incredible. He's a born leader,
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  just like you are, steal So I even used Santa Claus to impress
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  upon him that even Santa Claus knows that you're a born leader. When you
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  put those things, when you say those words, when you send those messages
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  and signals to your children as they grow up, just as a everyday part
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  of your life, I am telling you, it will ignite something on the
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  inside of them, and they will feel like that they are unstoppable, that
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  they can dominate, nate the world that they are. And then on top
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  of that, you impress upon them the importance of their siblings, like when
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  they would fight or you know, one of them didn't want the other one
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  around while their friends were there. This is one of the key things because
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  when I look at your kids and you know, I know, I know
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  so especially some are pretty well yes, but yes they are. And I'm
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  our families blessed this way too. That Bailey's best friend is Julia, Julia's
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  best friend is baby, right, that they are really tight, so important.
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  Your kids are really tight too, But that wasn't always the case.
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  No, I mean, you go through faces. It's just like my sisters
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  who are my very best friends in this entire world. We would have knocked
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  down, drag out scratches, blood hair pulling. We get in jouble,
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  but we were human. Same with your kids when you know they'll grow up
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  and if they choose their friends over and they're like making fun of the little
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  one, and you know because they're trying to impress their friend. No,
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  that doesn't No, that's not happening. We're not doing that. That's not
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  who we are, that's not what we're about. So you do impress upon
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  them that more than friends, more than any of the outsiders in your life,
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  your your siblings, they will be the ones with you even after Daddy
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  and are gone. They're the ones that you will be able to count on.
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  They're the ones that will love you through it all. And so they
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  are very tight. They're best friends. Steals very protective of the boys are
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  both very protective of Summer. Right. Steel just didn't let guys ask her
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  out and that was a problem with her back in highs. But they are
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  and I just think it's so important what you put inside their little minds.
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  It's very very important because as you think that's how you are, that's it,
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  and how you think of yourself and how you think of your family.
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  It's a beautiful thing. And you guys have you guys have done a wonderful
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  job with the kids. Idorem, thank you. I love yours too.
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  If you like to ask our American Mama a question, go to our website
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  American Ground Radio dot com slash mama and click on the ask the mom a
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  button turn out of well, thank you so much, thank you,