MFP 116: Habits: Let Us Begin Again
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
St. Francis would tell his followers "Let us begin again for until now we have done nothing." This is a great inspiration for us because sometimes we feel like we are always beginning again with new habits, plans, and goals for our family. We are the most consistently inconsistent parents out there! But we have become less stressed out about our inconsistency because we see that it is an opportunity to begin again with our children. It is hard to create habits in ourselves, let alone a group of children! But habits are an important part of formation, as the quote above from Stephen Covey shows. Since we have made so many plans with our family, we would like to share with you some of what we have learned in creating habits for your family. In this podcast we discuss questions such as how do you create appropriate habits for your family? How do you come up with a plan with your spouse? How do you keep those kids motivated?
7 Habits of Highly Effective Families: https://amzn.to/2Zj05l1
The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family: https://amzn.to/2ZgndRj
Amazing Camp for Teens: https://cysc.com/
Special weekend in Tampa for couples in February 2020… interested in hearing more? https://www.messyfamilyproject.org/tampa-february-15/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the messy family podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family. |
| 0:10.8 | Hosted by our parents, Mike Hernan and Alicia Hornin. |
| 0:15.7 | They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts. |
| 0:18.6 | Because family life is really messy. |
| 0:23.9 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:25.6 | It is great to have you with us. |
| 0:27.4 | And it is a great ending of summer. |
| 0:30.7 | We're getting ready to start school again and begin again. |
| 0:34.6 | At least in the Northern Hemisphere, we're wrapping up summer and getting back to |
| 0:40.0 | school. There's some kids who are already back at school. Our kids are doing orientation and heading |
| 0:45.9 | back tomorrow. Tomorrow and then on through next week, I guess they'll start back some of the other |
| 0:51.5 | kids. I mean, every summer feels like it goes faster and faster. |
| 0:55.9 | Like, I just, I mean, maybe it's especially for us because since our daughter, Katie, |
| 0:59.7 | got married in June. |
| 1:00.5 | It was like June was like gone. |
| 1:02.1 | Well, in May was half of it was in Australia. |
| 1:04.4 | The amazing Australians took care of us for two weeks. |
| 1:07.5 | So that was like our pre-vacation vacation. |
| 1:10.1 | But then in two weeks now, in July and August, |
| 1:13.1 | we have been doing some fun stuff. So Mike went, took the kids away to a friend's lake house |
| 1:20.4 | in New Jersey. And I stayed and worked by myself and my sister for a week. Yeah, working on that |
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