The 4 Step Process To Initiate Your Boys Into Manhood with Stephen Meeks

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Kids & Family, Religion, Fatherhood, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In a culture that constantly attacks manhood and faith, how do we help our boys as they transition into manhood?

How does a father maintain influence in his son's life amidst the chaos of social media, friends, and sports?

Today Jeremy is joined by Stephen Meeks, author of Save The Boys. Stephen helps fathers take their sons through an initiatory rite of passage so that they become men in the best sense of the word.

This process is powerful enough to eliminate the "rebellious teenage years" in a family, because it fosters such connection and responsibility.

Learn what we face as dads in the modern age, plus the CORE process Stephen helps dads lead their boys through, and get equipped to raise your boys into men.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:38 What is Save The Boys?

2:42 Leading Boys Into Their Teens

7:25 Why Are There Certain Age-Related Inflection Points in Our Relationships With Our Kids?

11:40 Showing Your Kids You're On Their Team

14:52 The Boy Crisis

20:15 What Fathers Need To Raise Their Boys

31:25 How To Create Your Own Man About

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Resources Mentioned:

Father Media Group

Save The Boys by Stephen Meeks

Family Inc

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0:00.0	Tomorrow's men depend on what we do with today's boys. If we do well, we'll have hopefully some good men to lead our daughters to be in charge of families, church, community, whatever. If we don't, then, man, what a disaster is ahead of us.
0:15.8	Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast. Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational team on mission by providing
0:24.0	you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms.
0:27.5	Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about all
0:31.9	things family.
0:35.9	Everybody, welcome back to the podcast. I'm joined today by Stephen Meeks. Steven, thanks for jumping on here today.
0:42.8	Yep, my player, looking forward to our visit. Yeah. So Stephen is a part of a ministry called Save the Boys.
0:51.3	And yeah, I would love before we dive in, I want to hear Stephen's story, and there's some
0:54.8	really cool things that they're doing there, and I want us to interact over it. But tell me a little bit
0:58.3	about the organization, the ministry, what it entails. Good. Well, I'm partnered with a friend
1:03.3	Marcus Matsu, and he and I had a common vision some years ago that our visions collided, and
1:10.1	what came out of it was a joint effort to help fathers
1:13.4	to lead their sons in particular and to lead their sons for the sake of their daughters
1:20.3	because our girls, I have granddaughters. He has a daughter, so our girls need a lot better options than they have now for the men who will care for them and guide their families.
1:32.8	And we weren't seeing enough.
1:34.3	So we collaborated to put together his branding techniques and all his knowledge and expertise in that area and my years of experience with my sons and others
1:45.3	leading men to do better job with their boys. And then we landed upon the effort called
1:54.1	Save the Boys. Excellent. Very cool. Well, excited to kind of dive a little bit deeper into that.
1:59.6	I'd love to start just hear a little bit about your stories, Stephen.
2:02.0	Why do you feel like for you personally, this is resonating with you?
2:06.6	Well, I have four sons.
2:08.9	My sons are grown.
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