Each episode of Raven’s Home is just as informative as it is delightful, and this week, the attention was on Chelsea and Levi. Every kid wants the shiniest new toy, but there is a right way and a wrong way to get it. This week Levi and Booker are on a mission to get Virtual Reality Goggles, but realize that they’ll have to earn them without their mothers’s help. What starts out as a business venture turns into a crazy scheme that not only bends the rules, but also the moral values Chelsea is trying to teach her son. It’s a short trip from bend to break if you don’t have a clear sense of what you’re doing wrong, and the cost it could have down the line.
Every generation has its own ‘It’ item: the one toy, device, thingamabob, that every kid absolutely has to have. Social media has entire pages dedicated to the trends of the decade. Fidget spinners are already on this decade’s list, and now so are virtual reality goggles. They’re cool, but as evident by Raven’s laughter, they’re not $600 cool. Of course, Levi and Booker only bury themselves deeper by starting in on a conversation about what they are owed. In a contest between kids who eat for free and mothers who suffer all the delightful side effects of pregnancy for nine months, moms win. So Levi, Booker, Tess, and Nia resort to selling snacks in school for a ‘marginal markup’ after they’ve messed with the vending machine.
Levi starting every sentence with “My dad says…” is a bad sign of things to come. He uses his dad’s philosophies to justify bending the rules, but in a roundabout way ends up feeling the pain of them. Kids, I cannot stress this warning enough. It is never, ever, ever a good idea to glue things to your body. Pick a shirt or pick a dress, and let your creative minds flow. Your body does not need to suffer that kind of pain for any cause, even the bottom dollar. (Hopefully this warning saves future generations trouble down the road with the DEA and Homeland Security.)
Levi’s newfound entrepreneurial nature tackles on another matter, the fact that Chelsea has been in denial about her ex-husband’s mistakes. Chelsea is a sweetheart, but everybody has their limit. She’s been trying to keep all of her emotions and instincts tightly bottled to protect Levi from the full truth. You know what they say, it’s always the quiet ones who snap the loudest. Raven really tries her best to help Chelsea let her emotions out, but we end up seeing just how Chelsea was duped for so long. Finally Raven brings out the big guns, or in this case the big ‘Schmop’, Chelsea’s invention, the proceeds from which Garrett stole right out from under her. That gets Chelsea going on her wedding china, but I’m with Raven on this one; getting $3,000 from the dinnerware is so much better than breaking them.
What finally snaps Chelsea out of her denial is finding out that Levi has been using his father’s philosophies to get what he wants. Chelsea’s anger manifests into a terrifying bad cop to outmatch Raven’s already scary bad cop. This is one of the toughest lessons for kids to learn, that good people can do bad things. Garrett might have loved his family, but he made a selfish decision that hurt them. You can love someone and be really angry with them, which is where Levi ends up. At least he has his mom, and aloe vera for those money burns.
It was really great to see Chelsea if full Mom-mode. Throw out your thoughts in the Comments Section.
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