As a mom, Cardi B is ready to give her children the world — but only under one condition, which she shared with British author Jay Shetty on his, “Jay Shetty Podcast” on Monday (Oct. 6).
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During their conversation, the rapper spoke about her life before fame and how the environment she grew up in helped to shape the woman that she is today, explaining the expectations that she has for her children because of her upbringing.
Growing up in the Bronx, Cardi B stated she had a rough time and witnessed how hard her mom had to work to take care of her and her siblings. However, it was this environment that instilled the same hardworking trait in the rapper. Now, when it comes to her kids, the only thing that Cardi wants is for them not to be “bums.”
“Please don’t be a bum. Please don’t be lazy,” she said. “Some people have the look, the intelligence. Some people really have that, but they don’t go nowhere because they lazy… Be your own person. Be your own human. Be something you can be proud of… If you want a car, I’ll give it to you. But please, become something.”
The mom of three (soon to be four) kids then shared how she is already teaching her kids a sense of discipline with the strict schedules she has set up for them.
“After school, my kids, four times a week they have tutoring, reading, math. Mandatory in my house. Then, Kulture has piano or she got gym class. Wave, he got sports class, and he still got to do the tutoring… It’s discipline. It’s got to be in you, and you have to be better than me. I want you to be better than me.”
Online, the “WAP” rapper received a lot of love for giving her children such a structured schedule.
“As a teacher, this is excellent! Kids with a busy schedule of extracurricular activities develop important social skills and have no time to get into trouble! Kids have boundless energy, so you have to direct that energy towards positive outlets,” wrote another user on X.
“I love that she’s doing everything to keep them from how she grew up. She’s giving them the tools to do anything, either music, dance, education. She’s giving them the tools to be successful in life,” added another user.
While Cardi expects her children to be better and achieve more than she has, she also shared that she doesn’t want them to feel too much pressure.
“I don’t want you to be perfect, because you cannot make your kids perfect, and you don’t want to put pressure on your kids to be perfect,” she said. “But I want you to be a hundred times better version of me, and imma install that in you. And you’re gonna be mad and crying, but you’re going to appreciate that one day. I wish the things that I put on my kids, I wish somebody could’ve put that on me when I was younger.”
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