Respecting the Future: S2 Ep.9 "How Does a Mother Raise a Child with Limited Resources?"

At times, the emphasis is placed on money, but when you have a mission, the resources will eventually catch up. My mother was raising two kids, so she could not chase a big career because she had to ask, ‘am I going to raise this boy and girl of mine or am I going to chase the dollar?’ I am glad that she made the decision to raise her children. She could have done a lot of different things as my mother is a brilliant woman. She talked about history and took us to monuments around the United States. She did a lot with little; she planned and she sacrificed not having the nice car or the big house. We did not have the big house, but what I have now is not relegated or contingent on where I live, what I drive, and what I wear. And, that is because that was not how I was raised. If you put me in a box, Chuck is going to rise above and be the cream on top. My Mom taught me how to be resourceful. There is a difference from being resourceful and having resources. If you are resourceful, the resources will come. Don’t forget to have ‘other people thinking’ when your resources increase, make sure you share those resources. Make sure you are looking at your Mother, and saying, “what can I do?” Flip the script for our Mothers and give life back to the person that gave us life. You should not focus on that financial side of things. Put the energy into who you are developing, and how your child will look in the future. If you are putting money before everything, remember that no money, no gold, no silver, no copper has left the earth. You only have so many years with this person. Make today count. You don’t have forever; you don’t have eternity. Truth is like water, and water is strong. If we tell the truth about our situation, it is less likely to experience those barriers and delusion of grandeur. Don’t hold your parents hostage to what they did or didn’t do, because that is what they experienced. No family is perfect. Yet, when we deal with the truth, the perfection of family is the agenda. We are a perfecting people. Why don’t we pull from the past, look at today, and deal with the future.