I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to Slo-Mob. Thank you for joining us again to continue this conversation with Steve Bedorf.

I think we have spent a big part of the first conversation talking about men's psychology and how

to raise good boys to be amazing men that reduce the harmful impact that toxic manhood may have on the world.

We continue now to speak about raising girls about the mistakes that we make and the impact of technology and social media on raising our children

as well as the question of what really are we raising? Is it boys or is it girls and how do we raise wonderful children in an

age where we have to allow choice for gender identification? Steve Biddolf is one of the world's best known parent educators.

He is a psychologist for 30 years and even though he's now retired he continues to write and teach.

His books include The Secret of Happy Children, Raising Boys, Raising Girls,

The Manhood and the 10 things girls need most.

Together those books have been translated to more than 31 languages.

They have been sold more than 4 million times and have really helped and influenced the way we

look at childhood and the development of our boys to men and our girls to women that are successful in our world and happy at the same time.

Steve was voted the Australian Father of the Year in 2001 for his work encouraging dads and he is a member of the Order of Australia

for his work in young people's mental health. He has two grown-up children and lives in Tasmania with his wife and

co-author Sharon. I'm sure you're back here because you loved Part 1 and I can promise you you

love Part 2 even more. So there we go,

continue the conversation with Steve Bedorf. So first of all yes I had the

same. I think I remember vividly age five or six when I went to

kindergarten or preschool or whatever where I was like okay so this is how kids

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