Name: Stop Apologizing for Your Son - Raising Boys the World Keeps Trying to Soften
Start: 2026-05-09T16:20:00-0400
End: 2026-05-09T17:20:00-0400

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Stop Apologizing for Your Son - Raising Boys the World Keeps Trying to Soften

Saturday May 9, 2026 4:20pm - 5:20pm EDT

North 3

At some point, parents were handed a quiet script:

Explain him. Excuse him. Tone him down.
This talk names the pressure most parents feel but rarely say out loud—the expectation to apologize for normal boyhood in a culture uncomfortable with male strength. Energy becomes a problem. Confidence becomes arrogance. Backbone becomes something to smooth out.

Stop Apologizing for Your Son confronts that pressure directly. It exposes how constant accommodation slowly erodes clarity, how apologizing for boys teaches them to question themselves, and why formation—not fear—is the path forward.
This isn’t about defiance or rebellion.

It’s about refusing to surrender the formation of sons to a culture that doesn’t know what to do with them.

Speakers

Kelly Love

Trail Life USA

Kelly Love is a consultant, coach, speaker, and author committed to strengthening men, boys, and the leaders who shape them. A father of five — including three sons — and soon-to-be grandfather, he speaks from lived conviction, not theory.
As Executive Director of Troop Planting for Trail Life USA, Kelly equips parents and churches nationwide to raise courageous, disciplined young men. With a background in building and scaling high-growth organizations, he brings strategic clarity to one of today’s most urgent challenges... Read More →

Saturday May 9, 2026 4:20pm - 5:20pm EDT
North 3 2986 Teaster Ln, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863

Teach Them Diligently Pigeon Forge 2026

Kelly Love

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Teach Them Diligently Pigeon Forge 2026

Kelly Love

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