Ron Funches

And I very quickly had to abandon all of those expectations and

And then just learn to be like, okay, I hope he one day just says I love you.

That would be nice to hear.

But even if he doesn't, I'm going to assume he does love me.

And see that it had gone from me never knowing if he would say that to him being so independent and having his own part-time job and not telling me he loves me every day, but also wanting to spend as little time with me as possible.

Now that he's 21.

Yeah.

asking for me to take him to the strip club.

It's really just like so fun of a life that I have with him now.

And it's taught me so much.

Yeah, I think there's always...

I think our job as parents is to help our kids become their true selves, not what we want them to be.

And if we can help them embrace their gifts and help them instill their confidence and let them know that it's okay to be whoever they are, that that is, I think, the best thing that you can do.

And you get that sense of pride when you do see it, when you see them in their element.

And I've seen the reverse with me and my mom.

My mom was...

She was originally supportive of my comedy career, but as it was going on a while and I wasn't making any money and I had my son, she was more like, hey, you've had enough fun.

Now it's time for you to buckle down and support this kid more and quit asking me to help pay your phone bill.

And I had to...

have some strong talk with her about not reinforcing my own doubts.