Hey y'all, welcome back to the Delt Momalone Podcast.

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

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

In this episode number 315, I'm bringing back our favorite boy expert.

Heather, author, speaker, David Thomas.

I think we need to be that clear with boys.

I think it's always helpful, not just in this conversation, in any conversation with boys,

when we use concrete language with them.

When we're concise, clear and concrete, those kind of three rules of thumb, we can consistently

be adopting.

The mistake that I think we can make is we kind of soft pedal and dance around things.

My go to resource in parenting, my four boys is David Thomas' book, Wild Things.

And so I was thrilled when I had him on five years ago to talk about the art of nurturing

boys.

You can find that episode 119 in our show notes.

Go listen to that one if you haven't ever heard David.

He's a counselor up in Nashville, Tennessee at the Daystar Counseling Center and his co-worker

Sissy Gough recently came on the show.

Both came on the show in 2017 to talk about their book, Armageddon Track and Emotional

Milestones.

Another great episode we've linked to in the show notes.

Today he is answering your questions, things about how to handle the, I said, David, I just

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