Name: New Mom Asks Theo How to Raise a Good Man
Uploaded: 2023-01-30T14:21:34.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'New Mom Asks Theo How to Raise a Good Man' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'New Mom Asks Theo How to Raise a Good Man' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-30. Transcript available.

What are some things that you as a man would advise new moms to instill in
their young sons to be later good men?
I think spending time with them one-on-one as they get a little bit older, as
they get to be like 5, 6, 7, 8, spend some time just separately.
Go do something separate with your son. One of the only things I ever got to do
with my mom that was just me and her was we went to Wendy's one time.
I know that doesn't sound like a lot, and I probably have talked about this
before, but my mother worked all the time.
She didn't want us to be on welfare, so she worked. I'm not saying that she's
better than your mom.
I'm not saying that she's better than your grandmother. I'm not saying anything
like that.
I'm just saying that. I think she worked sometimes, too, because she was
probably stressed out from having four children.
She didn't know what else to do, maybe, sometimes, so she did what she knew how
to do, which was to work.
But one time I was sick or something. I couldn't be at school. I could have
gotten, you know, expelled, maybe, or not expelled, but suspended.
And so I had to go to work with my mom.
And we rode around us, like, different cities or whatever, and we're delivering,
like, magazines.
She was delivering magazines at the time.
We were delivering these magazines.
And it was just kind of cool, because I got to be with her.
It was just me and her.
And we went to Wendy's for lunch.
And I'd never went to a lunch place just with me and my mom before, you know.
And there was too long of a line inside, so we went through the drive-through,
and we got sandwiches, and we just rode around and ate them.
And I'm sure I was probably an asshole that day, but, you know, I was a typical
kid.
But looking back, I remember it as, like, one of my favorite times where I got
to spend time with just me and my mother.
So I would just make sure that, you know, or I don't know, make sure I don't
have a family, but I think that that's important, to make sure there's some
connection there.
Try not to tell your son.
You don't always want to hear what will do better.
Sometimes he just wants you to love him and just let him know that he's okay
and to, you know, let him know that you love him.
That's it.
You know, sometimes a kid doesn't want to always hear how it could be better or
how he could have done it different or what.
But, because they don't, they don't, that's adult stuff.
You know, and I've struggled with that over my life, telling people what they
could do better.
You know, sometimes people just want to hear that they're not alone, and
especially your kid, your son will want to hear that.
And then I would take some control, and I would talk to him about how he treats
women.
Because I don't think that's a conversation that just men need to have with
their sons anymore.
I do think that that's a conversation that women need to have.
And I commend you.
I think that the toughest thing a woman can do is be a mom and to manage the
home and to take the risk of there being less income in the home, to stay at
home and create that family.
But if we can get out of what the world tells us is good and we can get back
into what our heart tells us is right or good, I'm not going to say right, that's
not the word, but feels good, then I think, you know, we'll find a lot of times
that it's that, that it's being with our family, you know, and having those fun
times and having those, you know, ridiculous.
Because my favorite time that I ever had when I was young was when the power
went out and my family would all be together and we couldn't fight or beat each
other because they had candles lit and it's dangerous to beat each other around
candles.
So we would just be together and we were kind of scared and nervous, but we
were all together, like in one place.
You know, my mom had two candles and so we would have to be by her.
We would have to be together.
And it was just, I don't know, there was something special about that.
So, you know, I think those are a few things.
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