What Rickey Smiley has said about Fatherhood

Smiley argues parents should give children the upbringing they had rather than what they lacked.

“I think sometimes we, we get caught up in trying to give kids what we did not have as opposed to giving them what we had”

Mick Unplugged: How to Keep Going When Life Breaks You with Rickey Smiley (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 8:20

Smiley contends modern society has inverted right and wrong, and the discipline his grandparents used still works.

“The problem in today's society, everything that's right is now wrong. And everything that's wrong is now right”

Mick Unplugged: How to Keep Going When Life Breaks You with Rickey Smiley (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 5:59

Smiley says he refuses to give children iPads as pacifiers, noting many kids can't give directions home.

“We're not taking an iPad. in the church as a pacifier, not going to have an iPad all the time in the car”

Mick Unplugged: How to Keep Going When Life Breaks You with Rickey Smiley (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 9:14