Strong Fathers, Strong Kids with Meg Meeker
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This might be our best episode here on The Dad Edge! Dr. Meg Meeker is a pediatrician, mother, and bestselling author. As the country’s leading authority on parenting, teens, and children’s health, she has been featured on all major media. Meg Meeker is also the host of the Parenting Great Kids Podcast and offers a wide range of online courses for parents.
Dr. Meg says fathers have been undervalued and belittled in today’s society, yet statistics show how crucial dads are to the development of both boys and girls, and their potential to become a happy, healthy, successful adults.
It’s time to own our roles in the lives of our sons and daughters.
Parenting great kids is hard, but simple. Meg Meeker tells how we can take an active and consistent role in our kids’ lives in just minutes a day. Whether raising sons or daughters, Dr. Meg explains how we can show up best as dads by embracing and following our male instincts. “You are wired with everything you need to be a good dad.”—Meg Meeker, M.D.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dad's with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:28.0 | Hey what's up guys, Hey what's up guys, welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this show. I know what you're thinking. |
| 0:36.0 | It's a long time coming for today's guest. It's only taking me five years to nail this woman down, but hey, I finally did it. |
| 0:46.1 | And after this show is over, you can just thank me later. |
| 0:49.6 | Because this might be my favorite one. I'm not kidding. I knew it was going to be good, but I didn't know it would be this good. And I did something |
| 0:58.1 | different on this show. So who is Dr. Meg Meeker for the three of you who don't know who she is. |
| 1:05.0 | She's a pediatrician mother and best-selling author of six books. |
| 1:09.0 | She has spent over 25 years practicing pediatric and adolescent medicine while also helping parents and children |
| 1:15.2 | communicate more deeply about difficult topics. She has written strong fathers, |
| 1:21.3 | strong daughters, also strong fathers, strong daughters. Also, strong mothers, strong sons, |
| 1:25.6 | because she just wants to balance both. |
| 1:27.8 | Balance the fathers and the daughters |
| 1:30.4 | and the mothers and the sons. |
| 1:32.3 | But both books have been absolutely amazing. |
| 1:36.0 | Dr. Meg's popularity as a speaker on key issues confronting American families has |
| 1:40.6 | created a strong following on her blogs for psychology today. |
| 1:45.0 | She has also spoken nationally at medical conferences and religious organizations. |
| 1:49.9 | She's also appeared as a respected expert on numerous nationally syndicated radio and television programs including |
| 1:58.4 | today CNN |
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