Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we speak with Dr Meg Meeker, the author of Hero

Being the Strong Father Your Children Need. Dr Meeker is a pediatrician, a mother, and has become

a leading authority on parenting, teens, and children's health,

having appeared on the Today Show, Dateline, the Laura Ingram Show, and more.

Dr. Meg gives us insight into the special relationship between a father and his child and

encourages those who are striving to be good fathers and those who are making peace with the

way they were fathered.

My name is Meg Meeker. I'm a pediatrician. I live in Northern Michigan and I've been

practicing almost 30 years. I love my job. I'm a grandmother. I have four young

grandkids and four adult children of my own.

And I learned many years ago that if I were going to take good care of kids, I had to take good

care of their parents. So a lot of my work is directed towards

parents encouraging mothers and fathers. I find a lot of mothers and fathers don't feel very good

about their job they're doing.

So a lot of what I do is write to parents.

I grew up outside of Boston,

and if you would have told me as a college student

that I was going to live in Northern Michigan, I would have said you're crazy because, you know, New Englanders like New England, particularly the old school New Englanders.

You know, I grew up in a little town called Concord Mass and it's very historic and people took a lot of

pride in the history there, Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson, the old North

Bridge.

And I can remember a point in time when I did decide I wanted to go to medical school.

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