Best of 2025: How to Provide a Healthier, Happier Childhood for Your Son (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Leading parenting expert and pediatrician Dr. Meg Meeker shares about the masculinity crisis in today’s culture and encourages you as a parent to take an active role in guiding and shaping your son’s character. She says the foundation of any boy’s life is built on three things: his relationship with God, his parents, and his siblings and friends. Dr. Meeker takes a positive view of masculinity as she offers seven secrets to raising healthy sons.
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| 0:00.0 | Jasmine knows the devastation of loss all too well. Her premature son died after four months in the hospital, |
| 0:07.7 | and then she experienced a miscarriage. It was hard to worship. It was hard to pray, but by listening to this |
| 0:15.9 | podcast, focus on the family, it helped me, you know, think that I'm not the only one who's going |
| 0:22.0 | through this. Jasmine says we were a voice of calm and truth in her chaos. Today, she wants to |
| 0:29.2 | equip other hurting families before it's too late. By listening to this podcast or a focus on family, |
| 0:36.1 | it will help you tremendously with your faith and how to grow |
| 0:40.2 | and move forward. I'm Jim Daly. We need your help to deliver hope and joy to more families |
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| 0:51.9 | Give generously today at FocusOn the family.com slash family, |
| 0:56.2 | or call 800 the letter A and the word family. Being boy is good, male is good, |
| 1:05.8 | masculinity is good, and guess what, it's very different from womanhood and femininity. And I think that many people |
| 1:13.8 | feel if you fuse the two, you can find this sort of no man's land where you can be a little of this |
| 1:19.7 | and a little of that, but you can't. Well, that's Dr. Meg Meeker, and she's our guest today sharing |
| 1:24.5 | about the importance of allowing and encouraging boys to embrace their natural tendencies to be adventure seeking and risk-taking. |
| 1:33.2 | This is Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 1:35.3 | I'm John Fuller, and this show with Dr. Meg Meeker was one of our best programs from 2025, |
| 1:41.1 | offering her insights about boys and a pretty compelling narrative that challenges some of the |
| 1:46.7 | modern paradigms. Yeah, John, I think today boys are growing up in a world that is often at odds |
| 1:53.4 | with their emerging masculinity. I mean, we talk about that as toxic and all those kind of adjectives |
| 1:59.7 | we throw at it. But I am glad. I grew up |
| 2:02.8 | at a time when boys could be boys and we got into trouble and we did things and, you know, |
| 2:07.9 | it's just a boy, innocent boy stuff, you know, trying to be adventuresome in the neighborhood |
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