Boys Adrift and Girls on the Edge with Leonard Sax
The Family Discipleship Podcast
The Family Discipleship Podcast
5.0 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
- Could you tell us a little about your family and your work?
- What has your research revealed about the importance of gender?
- Can you talk to us a little about the differences between boy's and girl's development as well as why you think our educational system isn't making adjustments specifically for those differences? What accommodations would serve our boys better?
- How are screens and video games impacting this generation of boys and what would be some healthy alternatives?
- Where do you see a lack of discipleship or “rites of passage” playing a role in the challenges this generation of boys is facing?
- What impact is culture’s drive to sexualize young girls having on this generation?
- How can parents lead their daughters well as they navigate a culture that rushes them into sexuality?
- How can we help our daughters develop a sense of who they are without their identity being rooted in someone else’s standards especially when so much of our daughter's identity formation has been tied to sexuality, grades, achievements, or looks?
- Why do you think that “self-control in childhood is a far better predictor of success in adulthood than grades in school” and how can we help kids develop self-control?
- How do you see the spiritual leadership of a home as an important aspect of parenting?
- What are some ways that we can pray for you?
- Shanan: Hebrew phrase, to chisel in stone
- Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Song of Solomon 2:7, 3:5, 8:4
- “Why Gender Matters” by Leonard Sax
- “Boys Adrift” by Leonard Sax
- “Girls on Edge” by Leonard Sax
- “But Mom, Video Games Are My Job” by Leonard Sax
- “The Collapse of Parenting” by Leonard Sax
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Family Discipleship podcast, a podcast of training the church. |
| 0:14.1 | The wisdom in scripture is that Vishinantam Levinecha, parents need to chisel the law in the hearts of their kids, |
| 0:21.3 | recognizing that kids are not innately good. |
| 0:24.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.0 | And you look to see what characteristic of that child measured when the child was 12 years old. |
| 0:32.1 | Most accurately predicts health and wealth and happiness 20 years later. |
| 0:37.1 | Well, it's not grades in school. |
| 0:38.8 | It's not emotional stability. |
| 0:41.0 | It's not friendliness. |
| 0:42.9 | It is self-control. |
| 0:44.7 | Self-control. |
| 0:48.8 | It turns out that what a girl needs to become a woman of faith |
| 0:52.7 | is very different from what a boy needs to become a woman of faith is very different from what a boy needs to become a man of faith. |
| 1:03.2 | This is Adam Griffin. I'm here with my co-host today, Mrs. Cassie Bryant. How you doing today, Cassie? |
| 1:08.0 | I'm doing great. Can you guys hear the leaf blower outside by new chance? No, I wish I could. Your microphone is so high quality that we're missing all the landscaping in the neighborhood. It's all like in here. That's great. Hey guys. Today we have a very prestigious guest with us. An author and educator, a really tremendous man whose thoughts have made a big difference. Dr. Leonard |
| 1:29.0 | Sacks. Hey, Dr. Sacks, how are you today? Thanks for writing me. Well, we're so happy to have you |
| 1:33.9 | with us. Before we jump into our conversation, I was wondering if you could just tell us a little bit |
| 1:37.4 | about your personal history that led to investing all this work you've done in writing these books |
| 1:43.7 | about child development that |
| 1:45.3 | have been so helpful. What led to wanting to research these things? Well, I certainly never |
| 1:49.9 | planned it that way. I am a family doctor and started my practice in Montgomery County, |
| 1:56.7 | Maryland, outside Washington, D.C. And I also have a doctorate in psychology, PhD in psychology and MD both from the |
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