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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Raising Emotionally Strong Boys :: David Thomas [Ep 368]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Our sons are constantly receiving messages about how to handle their emotions - from us as moms and dads, or from other men in their lives and from our culture as well. All too often that message has been “Be strong, emotion other than anger only shows weakness” and this to their detriment. Anxiety and depression are rapidly on the rise and our boys are not immune. 

We need our boys to grow into men who are strong of character and a beautiful, if undervalued, aspect of that is helping them learn how to name and process their emotions. This can be difficult to do as a grown up - imagine how your child experiences this and the training they need! 

Counselor and author David Thomas works regularly with boys and their families to help them put his three R’s of emotional processing into practice - recognize, regulate, and repair. Listen as he walks us through the importance of these practices and how they can set our sons up for lifelong emotional health. His new book, Raising Emotionally Strong Boys: Tools You Son Can Build On for Life, and companion study guide for boys, Strong and Smart: A Boy’s Guide to Building Healthy Emotions release June 14th

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:10.4

I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside

0:15.0

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

0:20.2

And in this episode number 368, I'm welcoming back a fan favorite, David Thomas.

0:27.5

We're going to talk about raising emotionally strong boys.

0:33.1

Culturally we send a really strong message to boys that says anger is an okay emotion.

0:38.2

It's kind of the only okay emotion than I think culturally that we support from males.

0:42.3

And so it's fascinating to me how early I think boys pick up on that messaging.

0:47.0

And so if I've got this biological process happening over here where I'm just automatically

0:50.8

funneling everything.

0:52.2

And then the culture is telling me yes, that one, not the others, but that one is okay.

0:57.4

You can see how many males get stuck right in that space and they can't identify what's underneath

1:03.1

and grow into being adult men who can't do the work of figuring out what's underneath the anger.

1:10.9

David first came on the show in 2016 and he was such a big hit with y'all.

1:16.5

We've had him on multiple times since I have been a fan since even before then

1:21.8

because as a mom of four boys his book Wild Things was my guide to understand what in the

1:28.4

world is going on over here.

1:30.6

Well, I appreciate that David's knowledge and experience in the area of parenting boys

1:37.4

comes from daily interactions with boys and their families through his counseling at

1:43.1

Day Star Counseling Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

1:47.1

And while a majority of us do not live in Nashville and do not have access to this fantastic

1:52.8

service, I'm hoping this is the next best thing is this conversation and pointing you to

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