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And I'm saying the choices you're making right now are shaping the man you're going to be.

The choices you're making right now, even the ones that seem insignificant, from the friends

you're hanging around, to the words you speak, to the way you treat other people, it's putting

you on a path that's going to lead in any number of directions. And if you make wise choices now,

it's going to put you in a place of wisdom later on in life. And just raising up the value of the decisions they make because life is telling them, oh, you're young, you're a teenager, you do whatever you want. It doesn't really matter. And we're trying to give the opposite message that what you say, what you do right now, it matters so much.

That's Dave Willis, and he and his wife, Ashley, join us today on Focus on the Family with

Jim Daly, and I'm John Fuller.

You know, John, as parents, we carry a pretty big responsibility, if not the responsibility,

to help shape the next generation, our children, maybe even some of their friends that come over to the house to play ping pong

or do the things that they do.

And it means we have to teach our boys how to respect girls, right?

And in this culture today, that's a tough task because there's very little supporting girls

and women.

Just think about it.

You know, the whole Title IX issue and what has

happened to women's sports with the trans issue and so much more. It's just there seems to be a

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