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Helping Socially Anxious Boys :: David Thomas [Ep 451]

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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Boys today are struggling more than ever with social anxiety.  

They feel hesitant, anxious, and struggle to take healthy risks. How do we know when to push them into uncomfortable places? Many boys are even struggling with life milestones like getting their driver's license, asking a girl to the school dance, or applying to college. OCD and ADHD are on the rise and we want to understand when to step in and get them any help that is needed.  

My guest David Thomas, a licensed professional counselor, is back to bring wisdom, advice, and tools to navigate life with our boys. He tells us the top three reasons why these issues are on the rise. David helps us learn how to support, challenge, and help boys be more outward moving and have more purpose. He reminds us that our sons are first a child of God and we can anchor them in that truth as we parent and guide them through life. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey y'all welcome back to the don't mom alone podcast I'm your host Heather McPagnan and this is the place where I get to walk

0:13.4

alongside you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom

0:19.0

alone and in this episode number 451 I'm bringing back to the show David Thomas and I

0:27.5

think there's something about asking those kinds of questions how did you

0:30.8

handle that what did you, what was that like that really does speak a message

0:36.4

to the boys we love, to the kids we love, that I believe in you, I believe you're capable, I believe God has equipped you with what you need to

0:46.0

navigate your own version of discomfort as a first grader, sixth grader, ninth grader,

0:50.7

freshman in college. And so I love the idea of meeting kids first

0:55.2

with empathy and then moving towards some kind of question

0:57.7

that is empowering in that way.

1:00.6

If you don't already know, David is a licensed professional counselor out of Nashville.

1:05.0

He's the co-host of the podcast Raising Boys and Girls, and he has come on the show many times

1:11.1

because his specialty is treating boys and helping parents of boys

1:17.2

through their developmental stages and he has come on so many times that we've linked to all of them

1:22.3

in the show notes.

1:23.2

But in today's episode, he's specifically answering questions that I was getting

1:26.7

repeatedly related to socially anxious boys, boys who are hesitant, struggle to take healthy risk who even struggle with life milestones like getting their driver's license, asking a girl to a dance, applying to college.

1:41.0

And with OCD and 8HD on the rise, we wanted to understand what's our role.

1:45.8

How do we know when it's time to step in and get them the help that they need?

1:49.8

And what does that support look like?

1:51.2

So David's going to share with us his top three reasons why these issues are on the rise.

1:54.8

He's going to help us learn how to support and challenge and help our boys and he reminds us of what is true.

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