Eight Critical Needs Every Mother of Young Boys Should Know (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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As a mom of 3 sons, Molly DeFrank knows firsthand how boys struggle to find their purpose and identity. She offers hope and confidence — encouraging moms to keep planting seeds of the Gospel and remind their boys they belong, they can be brave and tender, be creative, and even have fun!
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| 0:00.0 | Help show kids the importance of marriage, family, and faith in Christ. |
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| 0:09.1 | Journey Into the Impossible. |
| 0:11.2 | Over 9,000 children each year make decisions for Christ after listening to Adventures in Odyssey. |
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| 0:28.3 | slash impossible. It's really important for us to create spaces to have connective eye contact. |
| 0:35.5 | Face contact. Yeah, because so much of our relationship with our boys is going to be corrective. |
| 0:41.3 | It's going to be directive. |
| 0:42.7 | Hey, go put your shoes away. |
| 0:43.9 | Hey, stop doing that. |
| 0:45.5 | And we really need to work a little harder to look them in the eye and just say, hey, I love you. |
| 0:52.2 | You're my little buddy. |
| 0:52.9 | I love being your mom. |
| 0:53.8 | You're awesome. |
| 0:55.0 | That's Molly DeFrank, sharing some of her passion and insights to help you parent your boys better. |
| 1:01.1 | Molly's back with us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller, and thanks for joining us. |
| 1:06.4 | John, we had a great conversation last time with Molly. Good stuff. I mean, this is good mom stuff, but it's |
| 1:11.8 | also good dad stuff about what your boys need to know, eight things your boys need to know by |
| 1:16.8 | the time they're 10. And last time we did cover those four starters, which is belonging, |
| 1:22.8 | relationship, authority, and my favorite fun. And today we're going to cover the next four as we roll out but you |
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