Raising Masculine, Christian Boys
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Pryor is joined by Chris Cirullo, father of 5 boys, to talk about raising boys well. They react to a couple of topical and recent videos about how school feminizes boys, and whether to judge masculinity by the amount of "surplus value" you create in the world, then provide commentary and personal anecdotes on raising boys from their own lives.
Chris Cirullo is a former Army ranger, now coach and consultant who focuses on both individuals and organizations of impact. This includes health, fitness, and lifestyle optimization coaching with Christian fathers, as well as sales consulting for impact-driven Christian organizations that want to facilitate positive change in the world. Chris has been married for 12 years and he’s the father of 5 boys.
On this episode, we talk about:
1:14 Directing our boys onto a masculine path
1:59 Reacting to Dad Saves America clip on how school feminizes boys
6:20 The ideal environment for boys
9:48 The consequence of thinking masculinity is just a social construct
15:43 Getting the balance right between order and chaos when raising children
23:38 How to build your environment and location around what's best for your kids
31:28 Reacting to Scott Galloway talking about masculinity
44:09 The importance of self-awareness
47:47 How to keep building value without burdening our kids with impossible expectations
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Resources Mentioned:
School Feminizes Boys and Traumatizes Girls Video
Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor
The Single Biggest Point of Failure in a Man's Life Video
Of Boys And Men by Richard V. Reeves
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| 0:00.0 | I think that this entitlement that is inevitable when you don't have this expectation for kids. |
| 0:04.8 | And I think this is a real problem for a lot of people today is that they think, well, I brought |
| 0:08.3 | these kids into the world. |
| 0:09.3 | It's really my responsibility to make sure that I am giving them surplus value endlessly. |
| 0:13.6 | That doesn't help kids at all. |
| 0:14.9 | They're living in a world in which as soon as they have the power to create that value, |
| 0:19.2 | you want to begin to give them avenues for doing that |
| 0:21.7 | and then raise the bar properly and create that expectation, that this is what it means for you to be a really contributing person. |
| 0:28.6 | Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast. Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational team on mission by providing you |
| 0:38.6 | with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms. Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson |
| 0:43.9 | Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about all things family. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back. I'm here with Chris Cirillo. Chris, thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, happy to be here. So Chris and I are going to dive into some conversations around sons. |
| 0:59.4 | So I think this is going to be helpful for moms and dads, but I hear Chris, you have some sons you're dealing with. |
| 1:05.5 | A few. Yeah. And yeah, I have one son. I was a son. |
| 1:12.5 | So that's my credibility. |
| 1:14.5 | But I, yeah, my little bit older. |
| 1:16.4 | And so we're going to hit this from both angles. |
| 1:19.2 | So I'm excited to talk about younger boys. And then we're going to talk a little bit about as they get a little bit older, |
| 1:23.0 | how to think about what it means to direct them towards a masculine path. So there's two videos that |
| 1:29.1 | I've seen recently. So this first one, I will pull up and that we will discuss. This is Erica |
| 1:36.2 | Komisar. So I just did another podcast for the family team's podcast where she was talking. We |
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