Adventures of a Boy Mom Monica Swanson Ep 254

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Fellow boy moms, this episode is for you! This chat with Monica Swanson another mom of four boys and author of the new book Boy Mom dives into a lot of your questions about how to raise your boys to be godly men.

We talk about encouraging strong friendships between brothers, teaching boys to be strong AND gentle, and about the importance of giving our sons ways to experience excitement and adventure while getting some of their natural aggression out in safe physical activities.

“I am a big believer that boys were made for adventure that they need to have some excitement in their lives I think is just how God wired them. They're little warriors who need to experience some thrills. A lot of the trouble boys can get into is related to when they're lacking authentic adventure, when they're not facing challenges and overcoming obstacles.”

Monica has two boys out of high school and two still in the nest, so she offers a lot of hope for those of us in the trenches of parenting to keep pressing into relationship with our sons and to make the practicals of faith an anchor in all that we do.

“God is so big and so powerful and he can move mountains on behalf of your son. He wants your son's heart more than you even know. We get our boys plugged in everywhere we can. We want them to have so many positive spiritual models in their life that there's no denying that God is the best way to go. It about coming alongside them and saying, ‘This is for your best. God is for you. Let's walk this life with him.’”

What we chat about:

Monica’s four boys and working with very different personalities
Building healthy brother relationships and dealing with kids who hit
Boys need to let out their energy with exercise and physical activity
Setting healthy boundaries for your kids with manners and learning to laugh with them about it too
Teaching boys how to balance strength and kindness by pointing them to the stories of godly men
The power of shoulder to shoulder conversations with boys and why to keep pressing into conversation with them
Motivating boys to get excited about school and finding hobbies and interests
Ideas for how to foster adventure for your boys and learning not to parent from a place of fear
Fostering faith in your sons through time in the Word, prayer and modeling

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey y'all welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. I'm your host Heather McFadian and
0:11.7	this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside you and connect you with people
0:16.3	and resources to remind you that you don't mom alone.
0:20.6	In this episode number 254, the first of our new fall series, I get the privilege of chatting
0:26.4	with Monica Swanson. Like me, she's a mom of four boys which makes her very qualified
0:33.2	to write the book Boy Mom. Now if you're not a boy mom, no worries. She has successfully
0:38.9	launched two of her kids and is providing lots of mentoring and wisdom like this.
0:44.9	I'm not afraid to say hard things to my boys and sometimes to scare them a little bit because
0:49.9	it's a hard world out there and I would rather than face it in the comfort of my home
0:54.7	than when they're on the street one day alone trying to figure out what to do.
0:58.9	So I say talk, talk, talk about the things and then otherwise again it just keeps coming
1:04.4	up but it is so my passion is to just find inspiration. They need to be inspired.
1:09.6	So look for books, look for movies, look for people that they can look to besides Mom
1:15.1	and Dad because sometimes we just aren't enough on our own but they need to be inspired
1:19.2	by people who are actually doing things and making a difference in the world and just
1:24.8	how they can actually become that one day. You know they can be world changers and so
1:29.4	I think finding inspiration for our kids is key.
1:32.9	You'll hear us talk today about sibling interactions and how every one of our kids is so different.
1:39.6	How to teach boys to be strong and gentle. The importance of giving our kids and our sons
1:45.8	adventure and help get that naturally placed aggression out in some physical activities
1:52.8	even if they make us a little nervous. Monica's boys are surfers and they live in Hawaii
1:58.9	so her experience is so vastly different from mine but I love the truth that she shares
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