MFP 131: The Power of "NO"
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
One "yes" is protected by a thousand "no"s. If we want our children to have the ability to say "yes", to be responsible, free and, ultimately, loving people, parents need to believe in the power of NO. When a parent says "no" and defines a boundary for a child, they are helping that child to shape who they are. Boundaries enable children to "construct" themselves. This is hard work for parents, usually because we don't recognize what good boundaries are, and sometimes simply because we are lazy! In this podcast, we talk about the book Boundaries for Kids by Drs. John Townsend and Henry Cloud, and share some of our own experiences in defining boundaries for ourselves and our children.
Links:
- Virtual Date Night RSVP
- Discipline Guide
- Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the messy family podcast. |
| 0:07.5 | Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family. |
| 0:11.5 | Hosted by our parents, Mike Hernan and Alicia Hornin. |
| 0:16.5 | They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts. |
| 0:19.3 | Because family life is really messy. |
| 0:23.0 | It is so great to have you join us here on the podcast. |
| 0:26.4 | This is our 131st episode. |
| 0:28.9 | They said it couldn't be done. |
| 0:30.7 | And yet we have made it. |
| 0:33.2 | The thing is, is that the only people that said it couldn't be done is pretty much us. |
| 0:36.2 | Yeah, we're the only ones, actually. |
| 0:37.8 | Nobody else told us. What are you guys doing? |
| 0:39.5 | We actually thought we would run out of things to talk about, and that has certainly not |
| 0:43.0 | happened. So anyway, we have, we are right now in the midst of Corona still quarantine, |
| 0:50.1 | and those people listening to this later on will look back on this historical time, I'm sure, very differently than hopefully the way we're looking at it now. |
| 0:59.5 | That's right. |
| 0:59.9 | They'll have a different perspective. |
| 1:01.2 | But luckily for us, a lot of our ministry is already virtual. |
| 1:04.8 | And so we've just really been stepping it up, actually, and doing even more stuff online to serve our listeners and to serve |
| 1:11.8 | all of you, which has been really exciting. It has. It has been great. And it's actually, |
| 1:16.1 | I'm not in a bad way, but it's been very full. We had all our events canceled, obviously, but |
| 1:22.3 | we have created some new ones. We had the virtual catholic conference that we did, and we just |
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