The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
From the heart
LISA WASHINGTON, CEO OF B’TYLI WELLNESS AND BEAUTY CO. IN ATLANTA, AND HER SON JULIAN JELKS JR., WHO IS 30
Julian: What advice can you give me about being a father and how can I improve my relationship with their mother?
Lisa: I think it is so important that your children see that you love their mother. That is going to teach your son how to be a husband and how to be a father. And how to be a great father is that you love the mother. And that is going to teach your daughter how to attract a man that is going to love her because she’s seeing you love her mother.
Julian: What is the proudest moment for me and my brother?
Lisa: The proudest moment of being Tyler’s mom was to see him decide to become a Christian and follow God at a very young age at 16. My proudest moment with you is to see you live and to see you here, and talking to you every day because there was a time we didn’t talk. Months would go by and we wouldn’t talk. We (now) talk about all of the things I believed about you, and you are in it.
JENN HOBBY, STAR 94.1 RADIO HOST, WITH HUSBAND GRANT RIVERA, SUPERINTENDENT OF MARIETTA CITY SCHOOLS, AND DAUGHTERS, LAUREN, WHO IS 4, AND REESE, 18 MONTHS OLD
Sitting with her family at the AJC, Hobby shared the flowing thoughts about motherhood with us.
Jenn: When Lauren and Reese grow up, I hope that they remember how much I love them first and foremost. And that they can never do anything wrong that would make me not love them. I hope they remember laughing a lot and I hope they remember a childhood (with) a lot of fun memories. … The hardest thing about being a mom, I think, is just realizing your heart’s walking outside your body now, and I think the hardest is loving them and supporting them but not being scared of them getting hurt in any way (pause) ’cause they have my heart.