- So Steve, I am a mother to two girls and one boy and my son is the oldest. And so my son.
- How old is he? - He's 12 so he decided when
he was like six years old he wanted to be a Navy SEAL so I agreed. Well he came about let's say last year and said Ma, I wanna
go to military school. So that means he was in the sixth grade going to the seventh grade. We signed the papers, we're
waiting on the acceptance letter but the problem is I
have a few family members that are upset with me
for letting this young man make his own decision at the age of 12. It's an emotional decision so I think that I just need the support from
some of the family members and they're not willing to give me that, they're giving me a lot of backlash. - Okay, okay let me ask you this what's wrong with your family? He didn't, see letting
a boy make a decision is when he makes an ignorant decision. Your little boy didn't come to you and say hey look I wanna drop
out of school and sell drugs. He didn't come in the house and go, hey I'm gonna drop out of school right now at 12 and be a rapper. This little boy said I wanna
go to a military school. He wants to go to school. The fact that it's a
military school, come on. I mean really, that's pretty deep for a 12 year old to think like that. When they really ought to be applauding his maturity level to look at himself, I'm gonna be a Navy SEAL, I wanna be a Boy Scout I
wanna be in a military school. And then you go down there and put the boy in military school. He gon' be fine. - And Steve now as a
mother and his father, you know, is not active in his life I feel like I cannot
raise him at this point. He's 12, I'm not a man I don't
have the things of a man, I don't even know where to
begin to raise him as a man so I feel like putting him in this entity would be absolutely great. He'll have the structure, he'll grow. - Listen, see, your family
trippin' 'cause they backwoods. Don't let them dictate
what happens to your son. If your son wants to be special, if your son wants to be a Navy SEAL that could be his calling in life. He may know something they don't know, what do they want the boy to be? Bet they don't know. - I guaranteed you they don't know. - They don't know what
they want him to be. Let's keep him here, keep
him here and do what? You can't grow like that. - I feel like this is my
moment to support him. If I don't let him go
to this military school, I'll crush all his dreams. - Why would you crush his dreams for a bunch of people
that ain't got no dreams. (audience applauding) It's amazing. Do you know what happens,
they make great people, they make leaders at military school. It doesn't mean, he may have
a career in the military. But you don't know what this leads to. (audience applauding) It's a lot of examples of people
who went to military school have gone on to do some
great stuff with their life. Man let your boy go to school
quit talking to them people. I can't stand, I can't stand. I can't, you know what I can't stand? I can't stand a bunch of
old dream killing people. That really bugs me man, if you old and you ain't got no visions don't have none but don't stop a child from having a dog gone vision. 'Cause you ain't never wanted, no that's. (audience cheering) We'll be right back. (upbeat music)
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