This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

Today's question comes from Tim in Pennsylvania.

I have a 16-year-old son that does nothing but play video games.

He seems to think he will be a rich YouTuber. How do I motivate him?

It's a big one. I feel like this generation, I've heard a lot of kids recently saying they want to

be a YouTuber. And I think it kind of falls into two buckets. It's like saying I want to be an

influencer. Shoot me. You failed as a parent. Oh, my gosh.

But I will say there are people doing YouTube.

Yeah, and there are people doing influencing.

It's not anything to be proud of, though.

But before you come down on him, I would see if there are some nuggets there that could be a career.

So does he potentially like videography? Does he like engineering? Is there some type of design work that could interest him? So dig into that and, you know, see, is there something in that

space? Now, if you start pushing him to explore different options and he's not interested in that,

then it might truly be a motivation problem. But I would first see if there are any nuggets of some sort of career path that might be in there.

That's not just being an influencer or YouTuber.

Yeah, there's something, I mean, you know, we're on YouTube and we make a lot of money on

YouTube.

So you can make money on YouTube.

I'm not saying that.

And I guess in a sense, in a weird kind of a way

we're influencers except we really do stuff and have actual thoughts we're not just famous for

being famous but the um but here's the thing tam the way i would approach it is this um i would take him

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