Episode 182-"Milestones to Manhood" Guest: Dave and Steven Arms

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Dr. Meg Meeker

Kids & Family, Education, Parenting, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Milestones to Manhood is a way for fathers to help connect with their sons through a Christian right of passage. The book is a blueprint that specifically instructs a dad in how to do this for their 13-year-old sons. The idea is for the boy to look back at that point in time where he became a man. The book outlines the steps to take and how to do the specific events and can also be modified for any family. The book outlines specific steps that help make a father and son relationship stronger as well as giving the son other men in the family or mentors to look up to. There is a beautiful element of surprise for the son in this right of passage that will take him out of his comfort zone. This can be done for sons of single moms as well by trusted mentors and men in the church. It’s important that these sons also have mentors to look up to and go to for advice. There are 4 ways that separate men from women. 1. Physical Strength 2. Authority Figure 3. Men are called to be natural leaders, the head of household 4. Provider and Protector. Thanks for listening to Episode #182, Milestones to Manhood, and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than SEVEN MILLION downloads! Please subscribe, rate and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook & Instagram @MegMeekerMD Check out Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools! www.meekerparenting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Parents, do you ever feel a bit stumped when it comes to raising a son to be a man?
0:11.6	Well, this can be especially true if you're a single mom.
0:16.3	If you're feeling this way, you're really going to enjoy this episode.
0:20.8	David and Stephen Arms are a father-son duo who authored the book Milestone to Manhood.
0:28.0	David Arms is a Catholic deacon.
0:30.0	He invented the right of passage weekend that the book focuses on in order to create an
0:35.5	opportunity for fathers to affirm their son's masculinity.
0:40.1	Stephen Arms lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Emily and is the proud father of
0:45.0	two young children.
0:46.3	In Milestone to Manhood, Stephen shares his first-hand experience of his right of passage
0:52.0	weekend and reflects on how it shaped him into the man that he is today.
1:00.7	Well my guest today are Dave and Stephen Arms, and we're going to be talking about Milestone
1:05.4	to Manhood, their wonderful, wonderful book.
1:09.7	Dave and Stephen, thanks so much for joining me today.
1:12.9	Thank you.
1:13.9	It's a pleasure to be here.
1:14.9	Thanks for having us.
1:15.9	You bet.
1:16.9	Dave, I would like to first start out with you.
1:19.6	Was this your brain child?
1:21.5	Was it Stephen's brain child or how did this book come to be?
1:27.3	Well the book came to be after we had actually conducted several of these rights of passages.
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