Buy any means necessary

In the last 3 weeks my electric has been cut off, banking account over drawn
and my son is running around in his older brother shoes. Why? because now I am trying
to do things the right way. Before this Renaissance of mine, my philosophy was "by any means necessary". I wonder if maybe I am changing the wrong things in my life. Should my child's
well being out weigh everything else in my life. Should be willing to kill, steal, and sell drugs
to provide for my seeds. I work sometimes 50 hours a week making a little over min. wage
is that enough to say I tried or do I also have to shine shoes and sell oranges to make ends meet.
When you become a father does pride go out the door.

What do I tell the kids

I recently got a call from my middle sons school. They told me he was acting up.

Specifically that he would talk down to them as if they were his age and didn't seem to show them the appropriate amount of respect. After speaking to him about the teachers accusation he did not deny any of it. He said for the most part what the teacher had told me was true.

The kicker was when he told me, that I taught him to be that way. That I taught him to take nothing from anybody. I gave that a lot of thought thinking about all the conversation we had when he was young. Where we were from this Ideology was necessary to survive. It was what I was taught and lived my life by and even at this point of my life its still a concept that shapes my morality. So here is my dilemma , do admit I was wrong or do let him continue to pound his chest and show his dominance after all he is my son and its in his blood.