Karamo on why parents often withdraw love when kids misbehave. A 17-year-old new mother's disrespect usually signals emotional struggle, not defiance. Real love means showing up even when they're not at their best.
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Do you feel like a father's love is conditional? Yeah, it shouldn't be though, because I think one of the things as parents we do is we love to love our kids when they're at their best, but then we don't know how to love 'em when they're at their worst. And that's just the truth. I want you to remember, she's a teenage girl who just had a baby. Hormones already on fleek with being a girl that on— Yes, she's going to have to learn how to manage them, but that's the job as a parent. When she's disrespectful, it's not because she just wants to wake up and disrespect you. It's because something else going on in that mind when she's 17 years old, doesn't know if she's gonna be stable, just had a mom who had to apologize for not being a mom. There's stuff going on. And I know you want her to be perfect, but she's a human.