MFP 123: Parenting and Appreciating the Giftedness of Boys and Girls
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We started this topic in our last podcast MFP122, but there was so much to cover we had to continue the discussion! In this podcast, we discuss the different ways boys and girls deal with aggression and why parents need to teach self-control differently to their sons and daughters. Navigating friendships is another way in which parents need to understand gender differences. Don't have the same expectations of peaceful play for your sons and daughters - they each have their own challenges! And as kids get older and become adults the process of independence looks very different for moms than it is for dads. All of this is good for parents to realize so they can appreciate the gifts of their children and their amazing uniqueness found in their personality, temperament, and gender.
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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 Hornan. |
| 0:15.8 | They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts. |
| 0:18.6 | Because family life is really messy. |
| 0:24.2 | It is so great to have you with us. |
| 0:26.8 | That's right. |
| 0:27.4 | We are so, it's so funny because when we sit down to do this podcast, it's like we |
| 0:31.2 | enter and we step out of our crazy lives and we enter into this like podcast land world |
| 0:36.9 | with all of you. and it makes me so happy |
| 0:39.0 | to be here with you guys yes yes it is so good to uh to be here and to hear from you you know to hear |
| 0:44.6 | via email as we're traveling around to meet with listeners um it really makes it worthwhile when we hear |
| 0:50.0 | from you so so please make sure uh you know that we really appreciate you. We really want |
| 0:55.2 | this to serve you. And, uh, this is also an extremely busy time of year. I know, um, this is why |
| 1:00.8 | it's nice to be here in podcast land. Because outside is chaos. And, and I was saying this. I, |
| 1:06.8 | I, I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like time is speeding up. |
| 1:14.8 | Christmas just seems, I mean, I know it's always on December 25th. I know. |
| 1:15.4 | It feels like once you get to like December 12th, 13th, 4. |
| 1:18.5 | You know, it's like, ah, like at Mass today, they were like, okay, December 17th, |
| 1:23.5 | we're starting into the late Advent now. |
| 1:26.1 | And I'm like, it's a week. |
| 1:27.9 | I always say this is like the mom Olympics, you know, like this is the time where it's like, |
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