I saw Hasan, and I looked at him.

I said, "Hasan, have you been bathing?"

Hasan said, "Daddy, yeah, I've been bathing."

I said, "Nah, Hasan, you look a little dusty to me.

Got, like, a little glaze of funk over you. I don't like it."

He said, "Dad, I've been bathing."

Now, I think Hasan is playing a game with me, and I don't like it.

So I'm going to see where he at with it, because he can't outfox his father.

I go in his bathroom.

I put a brand-new bar of soap in his bathroom.

Brand-new bar.

I have a brand-new bar at the same time, so we can do the time thing.

Three days go by.

My bar, name is missing, bar is smaller.

I walk in Hasan's bathroom, name is just bold, lit up.

I say, "Hasan, hey, brother, you haven't been bathing, because your soap is new."

Hasan tells me some nonsense.

Hasan said, "Daddy, I don't use the soap all the time. Sometimes I just let the water run on me."

I say, "Well, then you're not bathing, son. You're dirty."

I said, "But don't worry about it. Hasan, I'm going to bathe you myself from here on out until you get it."

Let me tell you something.

If you want a 10-year-old boy to bathe himself and bathe himself correctly, you tell him that you're going to do it.

And you stick to it. Don't you change.

You stick to it.

Don't just say it.

Don't be no lip service.

Stick to it.

Hasan thought I forgot.

I'm in the kitchen.

I hear that shower coming.

I cut everything off.

Everything's off.

I come right in that shower.

Hasan turns around.

"Come on, man. Give me that soap. Give me that soap.

Let me get that back."

Hasan, he don't like none of this shitty.

I said, "Man, turn around. Chest. Let me get that chest."

Hasan don't like none of this shitty.

And this is what the tipping point for Hasan.

I said, "Come on, man. Leg up. Leg up. All right."

And I'm looking right in his eyes while I'm doing this.

I'm like, "Balls. Balls."

Hasan is disgusted.

I have never worried about that boy bathing himself ever again.

Hasan makes sure I know that he is bathing.

I could be in the kitchen cooking.

Hasan will bust right in there.

"Hey, look. I got soap all over me."

I'm like, "Man, get your dick out the kitchen."

My name is Ali Sadik.