How to Provide a Healthier, Happier Childhood for Your Son (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Leading parenting expert and pediatrician Dr. Meg Meeker shares about the masculinity crisis in today’s culture and encourages you as a parent to take an active role in guiding and shaping your son’s character. She says the foundation of any boy’s life is built on three things: his relationship with God, his parents, and his siblings and friends. Dr. Meeker takes a positive view of masculinity as she offers seven secrets to raising healthy sons.

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1:01.8	Being boy is good, male is good, masculinity is good, and guess what, it's very different from
1:10.3	womanhood and femininity. And I think that many people
1:14.2	feel if you fuse the two, you can find this sort of no man's land where you can be a little of this
1:20.1	and a little of that, but you can't. Well, that's Dr. Meg Meeker. She's our guest today sharing
1:24.9	about the importance of allowing and encouraging boys to embrace their natural tendencies to be adventure seeking and risk-taking.
1:33.7	This is Focused on the family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller and Dr. Meeker will offer her insights about boyhood today,
1:39.8	offering a pretty compelling narrative that challenges some of the modern paradigms.
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