How To Survive Bringing Small Children To Mass

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Children's behavior during Mass is such a common topic in Catholic family circles! At the very least, those of us who struggle to manage our children's behavior at Mass can know that we are not alone. This week, I share an email from a listener named Lori who received a nasty comment from a fellow parishioner after a recent Mass (where she actually felt her children were pretty well behaved!). This email left Lori feeling discouraged and wanting to give up on the whole "Catholic family life" thing because she really ought to be able to expect support from her parish community. After commiserating and offering some words of encouragement and support, we then share some ideas for ways to improve your chances of having a positive Mass experience, even with very young children.

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0:00.0	Girlfriends, episode number 112. How to Survive Bringing Small Kids to Mass.
0:13.2	Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance and joy in family living.
0:25.2	This week we're taking on that perennial topic, how to bring kids to mass without losing your mind. Let's get started.
0:41.2	Hey, girlfriends, how are you?
0:42.4	Welcome to another show.
0:48.0	So happy you've decided to join me here today for another episode of the Girlfriends Podcast.
0:48.7	I hope you're having a good week.
0:50.2	I'm recording this on Tuesday.
0:52.8	Not as early as I planned to. I got up early this morning. Do you ever do that?
0:56.2	Like get up early so you can get stuff done and then lose your time somehow? This is ironic after I just did that episode about owning your day.
1:05.2	I managed to get a workout in. Then I showered. I did some show notes for this show and then got lost in email for a little
1:13.1	while. Anyway, it's a little later than I plan to be recording, but I'm trying to squeeze this in
1:17.0	before I have to drive my daughter to school. And we're going to talk about bringing kids to mass,
1:21.9	that topic that comes up all the time. But a few things I want to kind of update you on before that.
1:27.4	First of all, thank you,
1:28.2	those of you who reached out to commiserate with me with the fact that Dan was gone and I was
1:32.9	complaining about it last week. He's back. All as well. I have my helper and my soulmate back
1:39.0	with me day and night. So that part is really good. And others have been emailing. Some of you have been
1:47.2	boxing asking about Taylor. For those of you who haven't been listening to all of the episodes
1:53.2	in a few episodes back and a few episodes before that one, we heard from a listener Taylor,
1:59.3	who didn't mind that we shared her name, who was struggling with using NFP, then she found out she was pregnant, then she found out she was pregnant with twins, then she found out that there's potentially some problem, physical problem.
2:12.7	There's some indicators that there might be with one of the babies, really, really struggling with that
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