Getting Boys to Open Up
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 16 June 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Is it difficult to get your son to talk? Jim Daly and Molly DeFrank share ways you can engage with your boys in conversation. Then, Danny and John discuss why sharing how you're doing as a parent might be the key to unlocking your boy's heart.
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| 0:00.0 | Is your marriage struggling, communication breaking down, trust fading, conflict that never seems to resolve? |
| 0:07.6 | There's still hope. |
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| 0:15.0 | and focus fully on rebuilding their relationship. |
| 0:18.0 | And right now, through the Marriage Investment Initiative, |
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| 0:32.5 | If you've got a boy and you ever get the eye roll like uh or the verbal uh when you try to initiate a |
| 0:41.3 | conversation you are not alone and we've got some help i'm john fuller along with dr danny werta |
| 0:47.2 | who heads up our parenting team and danny uh boys boys don't want to talk normally i mean that's just kind of a general thing but in today's |
| 0:57.5 | world there's this false masculinity there's this sense of what a what a man is and it doesn't work |
| 1:05.7 | very well and it's offensive to a lot of parents who overreact. So help me. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm interacting with a 10-year-old. |
| 1:13.3 | He's giving me the us. |
| 1:14.6 | And he's also buying some of the stuff out there. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, I mean, now it's not new. |
| 1:18.9 | The whole manhood, dominance, strength, macho stuff from the manosphere that's in part of the internet messaging, |
| 1:28.3 | it just has much more of a megaphone now with the internet. |
| 1:32.2 | What I've been encouraged by, though, is on the internet, |
| 1:35.6 | there's also many men, Christian men, posting things on what it means to be a follower of Christ. |
| 1:42.6 | And in that, there's been an emphasis on being a servant, a person that loves their role as a father, |
| 1:49.1 | as a person that is family-focused, well-rounded, courageous, loving. |
| 1:53.4 | And with Charlie Kirk, we see a courageous Christian there, and a lot of boys have seen this, |
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