How Godly Moms Can Raise Godly Sons (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Rhonda Stoppe and her son Brandon provide practical advice and encouragement for moms raising sons. The pair discuss discipline, equipping sons for independence, talking in ways that sons will listen, and giving boys a vision for manhood. (Part 1 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | When I found out that I was having a boy, I was really excited but also nervous. |
| 0:08.0 | Having three sons, there is never a adult moment. Out of the blue, they'll just |
| 0:14.0 | grab you and hug you and say, I love you mom. Always activity and rough housing. |
| 0:20.0 | It's exciting for a while because you're the most important woman in his life |
| 0:24.0 | but you also know that sometime in the near future you're no longer going to be |
| 0:29.0 | that woman. Well, if you have one or more boys growing up in your home, |
| 0:33.0 | you can probably relate to those comments. We're going to explore the world of |
| 0:37.0 | moms and sons on this edition of Focus on the Family. Thanks for joining us. I'm John |
| 0:41.0 | Fuller and your host is Focus President and author Jim Daily. |
| 0:45.0 | John, I'm all in on this broadcast because Jean and I, well we live this. |
| 0:49.0 | Mom's raising sons to be men and poor Jean had an all-boy household. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, she had me. And then Trent and Troy and I think her best |
| 0:57.0 | thing was to get away and spend time with her two girlfriends in Southern Cal, |
| 1:01.0 | whom she met in kindergarten. And that fun. So that was her |
| 1:05.0 | female time. I got to make a trip to go see the girlfriends. |
| 1:09.0 | And Jean did an amazing job with our boys and |
| 1:13.0 | she would agree that raising sons have certain challenges |
| 1:17.0 | because they don't think like their moms. They think differently. Quite a bit. We're going to go outside |
| 1:21.0 | and climb a tree and fall out of it or jump on a bike with no helmet. A lot of action. |
| 1:25.0 | Well, the goal is today to help moms |
| 1:29.0 | do a better job in raising their boys to become men. I'm looking so |
| 1:33.0 | forward to it with our two special guests. Yeah, we're very pleased to have |
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