let's talk about this wonderful book cuz it's gorgeous into the uncut grass it's about an adventurous boy and his Talking Teddy Bear but you say it's not just for kids it's a it's really sort of one of those Soul hugging pieces tell us about it well I I I I was formed by the books that I read as a child you know um the one thing my mother always found a way to get me was books um some she would even get on on these programs where you would you would sort of pay in installments
like a little labine that send you like one book from the series at a time and and so she always made sure that I had books in my life and I I'm always grateful for to her for that and so it what I loved about the books that I read as a kid was I noticed when I read them when I was really young I had one idea of what the story was and I read them a little later and then I'd have a different idea of what the story was and then even as an
adult I go back and I reread and it changes again you know so even like books like Charlie on the Chocolate Factory when I read as a child I was like this is all about candy I understand book makes sense I read it now as an adult and I'm like is this a critique of capitalism what is happening here you know it really changes and so I've always wanted to write a book predominantly for kids that can be read by anyone because I think you still have a kid in you regardless of how old you
get and sometimes you only access that child when you're with a child and and that's that's what the book is inspired by a journey of a child and starts in a simple world he doesn't want to make his bed he decides to run away from home because of this but running away to him is just escaping into the backyard to a part of it he's never gone to before and his imagination takes over and then really the theme of the book is about conflict resolution and trying to figure out how you live in a world
with people who don't see the world the same way you do it sounds like it should be required reading for the election so what do you hope that people of all ages will take from this well I wouldn't be prescriptive for older people but for kids they've actually given me so much joy so the kids who've gotten like an early copy have have sent me like little videos or reviews and they've all said the same they come to me and then like they're like they're like Trevor thank you so much for writing a book because
now I can explain to my mom what why why I feel the way I feel about the bed and I just want to say thank you so much because it's it's like for many of them it's yeah it's like a little you know just like their little revolutionary book I wrote it for them you know and and and it's it's really if a parent reads it I hope parents would be inspired just to spend a little more time trying to understand their kids and trying to teach their kid to understand them yes you know a
lot of the time as parents I know it's hard because everyone's parents are tired and working and grumpy and I get all these things but you'll be shocked at how kids want to understand you you know and then as parents you'll say the phrase you'll be like oh because I said so and the kid wasn't saying why because they want to challenge your Authority they really want to understand why you think the way you do cuz you're the coolest person that they know now you know if you had been a little kid and said why
your mother would said cuz I said so cuz I told you to that's the that's one of the fundamental things of parent and children because you have to learn that you don't control everything right and it's really it's really great because when you have your imagination you know anything can happen you might be able to control that but in the reality there comes a time where you have to deal with other people and this is one of those times where you can take yourself out and then you bring yourself back because eventually you got to
clean the room you got to clean the room you do but you see I can see that coming from an adult's perspective and as a child that was me that was me as a kid I would never clean my room what I'm saying an adult would go you're going to have to do it you're going to have to but like as a larger metaphor I think about how many times we lose the people in our lives or we lose relationships or we and I mean we completely allow them to fray just because we didn't understand
a few fundamental things we weren't curious you know somebody said something to you and you assumed its intention and that was it you know and so I that's why I think with parents they go because they say because I said so there isn't an understanding there isn't a negotiation and I know it can be tedious I know there's some parents watching this going like oh good luck doing that yeah and it's not a teachable moment exactly exactly and I think there's something wonderful say just because I yeah it teaches you some respect but it doesn't
necessarily teach I think the the free exchange of ideas yeah but you see this is this is and this is a a a difference in parenting yes because sometimes it's not about an exchange of ideas sometimes you got to do what I tell you to do cuz I need you to get this done and I don't have time to explain because I said so because I said so but remember people in the South young black men as little boys I know I know it's time but people when we talk about what used to happen we
were told as children do not question this you must get this done because if you do something different it may kill you right so it's it it's always good for everybody to know when to be the adult and when to be the adult but I would argue I would argue to that point what sometimes what's what what sometimes happens though is parents because the same would happen with my mom she would say that to me I have to tell you this and if you don't do it the world will kill you but I think the
thing we forget sometimes in those moments is if you don't understand why the child doesn't know why they have to be that way could be that could be but sometimes it ain't for you to know into the cut uncut grass is out now you can buy this wonderful book by scanning the QR code on the screen and members of our audience you're each going home with a C
