MFP 122: They Sure are Different! Boys and Girls in a Messy World
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In a culture that is proclaiming gender as "fluid" and is encouraging "gender-neutral" parenting, we proudly stand and say boys and girls are defined and different. Wonderfully different. And did you know those physical variations extend beyond simply the obvious? Boys and girls have distinct wiring in the brain, eye structure, and hearing acuity. Boys overestimate their abilities, and girls underestimate them. Boys feel just as deeply as girls, though they are less verbal. The distinctions are many and sometimes subtle. What does this deeper understanding mean for parents? The more parents realize how their sons and daughters are uniquely made, the better they will be able to understand and guide them to further maturity. In this podcast we draw from the research of Dr. Leonard Sax in his book Why Gender Matters, which we highly recommend. There is so much ground to cover we split this into 2 podcasts! Part 2 coming next week.
Advent Kit for Families: https://www.messyfamilyproject.org/give/
Tampa Event: https://www.messyfamilyproject.org/tampa-february-15/
Dr. Leonard Sax's book: https://amzn.to/2OkCn5G
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the messy family podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family. |
| 0:10.8 | Hosted by our parents, Mike Hernan and Alicia Hornin. |
| 0:15.8 | They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts. |
| 0:18.6 | Because family life is really messy. |
| 0:24.5 | Welcome. but they're not excellent because family life is really messy. Welcome to the program. |
| 0:26.0 | It is so great to be with you here today. |
| 0:29.2 | Now, I don't know if you're listening immediately, meaning you're either heading into Thanksgiving or you're traveling or you're with family. |
| 0:38.5 | Or maybe you're listening right after Thanksgiving. |
| 0:40.4 | But this is the week of Thanksgiving that this is going out. |
| 0:42.7 | Because we have about half of the people who listen right away and the other half |
| 0:46.0 | listen to it some point. |
| 0:48.9 | So you're welcome no matter what time. |
| 0:51.2 | And maybe you're not even in the U.S. |
| 0:52.8 | So you're like Thanksgiving. |
| 0:54.3 | That's right. |
| 0:54.9 | What is Thanksgiving? |
| 0:55.5 | I know it was the weirdest thing we have a girl living with us for a few months from |
| 0:59.6 | Ireland. |
| 1:00.6 | And she was, yeah, Thanksgiving. |
| 1:03.3 | It's like you don't really think about it when I was like, oh, oh, what are we going to? |
| 1:06.7 | Oh, oh, that's around the week of Thanksgiving. |
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