Hello, everyone. You're listening to Family Talk, a radio broadcasting ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute.

I'm Dr. James Dobson, and thank you for joining us for this program.

Well, welcome back to Family Talk. I'm Roger Marsh. And on today's program, Dr. Jeff Myers and Dr. Kathy Cook join us once again to continue our discussion on their powerful new book. It's called Raising Gender Confident Kids. On our last program, Dr. Cook and Dr. Myers explained how gender confidence begins with confidence in God as our intentional

creator. They shared practical ways parents can approach this topic with compassion, hope, and truth.

On today's edition of Dr. James Dobson's family talk, Dr. Myers and Cook will tackle some of the

toughest questions parents face, what actually defines masculinity and femininity according to Scripture?

How do we break through cultural stereotypes while still honoring God's design for men and women?

And what can we do when we see our own children or grandchildren beginning to actually question their God-given identity?

Well, let's rejoin Dr. Jeff Myers and Dr. Kathy Cook for this conversation right here on

today's edition of Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk.

Dr. Jeff Myers, Dr. Kathy Cook, the authors of the brand new book called Raising Gender-Confident

Kids, Helping Kids Embrace Their God-Given Design. Welcome back for another conversation on today's edition of Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk. Thank you, Rod. It's been a fun conversation, and looking forward to continuing it. Definitely. Thank you so much. You know, it's interesting as we're talking about the gender identity issue, and we haven't really gotten the 800 pound gorilla in the room and that is

what defines a boy a man what defines a girl or a woman and you deal with that in the in raising

gender confident kids and and jeff we'll start with you first because you probably have the biggest

mountain to climb it's pretty obvious in the culture right now that there's something wrong with

masculinity we went from

identifying toxic behavior to just classifying all masculine behavior as toxic. Talk about how

you address this in the book because, I mean, quite frankly, the idea that I love the poll

quote we have here, it's uncomfortable to admit this, but our culture operates on a widespread

belief that boys are bad. They're like pit bulls, cute when they're puppies, but they're

dangerous when they're grown. Talk about that, if we would. Well, I have two sons and two daughters,

so I feel like I've got a little bit of a balance, but they're obviously different. Every

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