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    Best of 2025: How to Provide a Healthier, Happier Childhood for Your Son (Part 1 of 2)

    Dec 9 2025
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    Best of 2025: How to Provide a Healthier, Happier Childhood for Your Son (Part 1 of 2)

    Date: Dec 9, 2025

    Guests: Dr. Meg Meeker

    Leading parenting expert and pediatrician Dr. Meg Meeker shares about the masculinity crisis in today’s culture and encourages you as a parent to take an active role in guiding and shaping your son’s character. She says the foundation of any boy’s life is built on three things: his relationship with God, his parents, and his siblings and friends. Dr. Meeker takes a positive view of masculinity as she offers seven secrets to raising healthy sons.

    Related Links:

    LISTEN: Raising Sons to Be Honourable Men (Part I of II)

    READ: What moms misunderstand about sons

    READ: What it takes to be a man: Guiding your son toward true manliness

    READ: Why manhood doesn’t happen naturally

    READ: 6 unique ways fathers positively influence their sons

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