Podcast Episode #39 – Moms’ thoughts about raising boys

Raising Boys

Boys.

Whether you’re expecting a boy or already have one in your family, we want to do our best to raise them to be emotionally healthy members of our families and then their own families one day. But how do we do raise emotionally healthy boys?

We begin our podcast series about Raising Boys with a conversation between two moms – Lianne March and Rebecca Thompson Hitt, both moms of boys. Lianne has a 13-year-old son and Rebecca has two sons, aged 14 and 19.

Today’s conversation tackles understanding emotional patterns in your family as it pertains to different members of your family of origin and just to notice if there are any specific patterns that are drawn on gender lines. There is even a worksheet that you can download to look at your own family’s patterns. You might just see something you hadn’t before. Remember, this is all about bringing patterns into conscious awareness, so you can make a choice about them, not about blame or shame.

They talk about when their boys were young and what they noticed regarding what kinds of toys and activities their boys gravitated towards and how that changed as they grew.

As mothers of teen boys, they also share about their experiences of noticing the shift that happens as boys enter puberty regarding emotions, physicality, and the need for some more risk. Lots of real life examples and stories are shared.

This series will be recorded during the month of April. Next week, we’ll be talking with Nathan McTague from The Center for Emotional Education.

We welcome your questions on this topic. Just send us an email and we will do our best to answer them for you!

Resources from this Episode

We’ll be updating this page with more resources about raising boys as we receive recommendations so be sure to check back!

FREE Printable PDF: Exploring Your Family Patterns

In this episode, we brought up a whole bunch of questions for you to consider about how you and your family handle feelings. It can be really interesting to think about what things were like when you were growing up, and then see how things are in your family now. Notice what things are similar and what’s different.

We added more questions than we even discussed on the podcast, so be sure to sign up below and download the PDF and spend some time working on it. You may want to print out a copy for yourself and your partner to do separately, and then see whether things were similar or different for you.

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Authors

  • Rebecca Thompson Hitt, MS, MFT is the founder and executive director of The Consciously Parenting Project (2007). Rebecca loves supporting individuals and parents to grow themselves up in their current relationship challenges. She delights in empowering people to find peace and connection with their loved ones, supporting the transformation of the way we understand our connections. Her holistic approach, which includes our earliest experiences and nervous system patterns, her gentleness and compassion, and her deep listening without pathologizing, helps us to see ourselves and those we care about with new eyes, supporting the transformation needed in the world starting with our closest relationships. With over 30 years of professional experience working with individuals, couples, and families, in addition to her own personal healing work raising her now young adult sons, Rebecca is dedicated to transforming our relationships stories, one relationship and one family at a time.

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  • Lianne March

    Lianne March graduated from Clemson University in 2003. She lives in Melbourne, Florida with her husband, Allen, 5 children: Allen IV, Alexa, Austin, Abby, and Anna. She also has two dogs, a bunch of chickens, and her parents live in the backyard in their RV when they aren’t traveling the country. In addition to homeschooling her children, she supports other families in many areas including breastfeeding and general parenting. Lianne has been part of The Consciously Parenting Project since it began in 2007, serving behind the scenes with the website and book publishing. She has also joined Rebecca on the podcast, written for the blog, and is helping families as a Consciously Parenting Certified Holistic Family Consultant (HFC).

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Rebecca Thompson Hitt

Rebecca Thompson Hitt, MS, MFT is the founder and executive director of The Consciously Parenting Project (2007). Rebecca loves supporting individuals and parents to grow themselves up in their current relationship challenges. She delights in empowering people to find peace and connection with their loved ones, supporting the transformation of the way we understand our connections. Her holistic approach, which includes our earliest experiences and nervous system patterns, her gentleness and compassion, and her deep listening without pathologizing, helps us to see ourselves and those we care about with new eyes, supporting the transformation needed in the world starting with our closest relationships. With over 30 years of professional experience working with individuals, couples, and families, in addition to her own personal healing work raising her now young adult sons, Rebecca is dedicated to transforming our relationships stories, one relationship and one family at a time.

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