1. Mothering Little Men from Mars Sue Bohlin Probe Ministries www.probe.org sue@probe.org

2. Revisiting Mars: Boys are Self- Reliant

3. Male Brain is Linear

4. Boys are More Physical

5. Boys are Competitive “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” Prov 27:17

6. Boys Bond Shoulder to Shoulder

7. Talking: For Conveying Facts and Information Only

8. Aggression Nurturing

9. Boys Need Respect

11. What Men Want Moms to Know

12. Don’t try to turn him into a girl.

13. Boys need men to imprint masculinity on them.

14. Respect your son, his dad, and men in general. Eph 4:29 Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.

15. Affirm him.

16. Don’t be overprotective.

17. Start letting them go as soon as they learn to walk.

18. Dirt is not sin.

19. Sometimes fighting is good.

20. “I wish parents would put this on their bathroom mirror: LOVE FIRST, FREAK OUT LATER”