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I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta and I've heard more than one little boy say,

you know when I grew up mom I want to marry someone just like you and I'm sure all the moms are thinking,

oh that's so cute and I'm thinking that's moms are thinking, oh, that's so cute.

I'm thinking that's a little creepy, but whatever.

It is a little boy speaking about the person who has influenced him so much.

And to be honest, a lot of times, that's mom because she's the one who is spending those early years with that child

She's the one he bonded with first in the womb and then he comes out of the womb and she's the one who

feeds and hugs and kisses and really shapes his view of women. We talked with

Dr. Meg Meeker about this, about the influence that a mom has on a boy, and

here she is now talking with Jim Daly and me.

You remind moms that they are their son's first love.

You know, I've never thought about that,

but in reading the book that jumps off the page,

that's what you're really saying is

moms shape the view that their sons have

about femininity too.

We've talked a lot about the denigration of masculinity.

Moms do the core job of shaping what it means to be a woman in the minds of their boys.

Yes. I think most moms might go,ikes I never realized that right?

Oh no yeah so speak to that how does a mom capture that view and then how does she

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