MFP 142: Kids and Kindness
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After 26 years of parenting you would think that we knew how to promote an atmosphere of virtue in our home automatically. But it doesn't work that way! We have had to stop and evaluate the way that our younger children have been treating each other and address it intentionally. In this podcast, we share some of the teaching we gave to our kids about practicing kindness, how we followed up afterwards, and why its important to train the actions AND the hearts of our children. Listen in to hear our Seven Tips on Kids and Kindness at home as well as Mike's reflections on his recent hike on the Appalachian Trail, update on our fabulously successful Date Night with the Hahns, upcoming events, and how to promote our podcast.
Referenced:
- Catholic moms summit register: https://www.cardinalstudios.org/a/34145/eFUzDCVz
- Marriage summit access if desired: https://www.joyfuleverafter.org/a/27520/xSMEEApS
- Scott and Kimberly Hahn interview: https://www.messyfamilyproject.org/date-night-with-hahns/
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:14.4 | And Alicia Hornin. |
| 0:15.8 | They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts. |
| 0:18.6 | Because family life is really messy. |
| 0:26.7 | Thanks so much for joining us. |
| 0:29.7 | It is great to have you here with us. |
| 0:32.8 | Like I feel like you're present with us, listeners, friends. |
| 0:38.4 | No, this is going to be, I think, a really wonderful podcast. |
| 0:44.7 | So we've been trying to do a lot more preparation, you know, for our podcast. |
| 0:50.6 | And so this time he said, you know what, let's do less preparation and see what happens. |
| 0:51.8 | Well, it's not less. Is that something you should tell them? |
| 0:53.6 | I'm not sure they care. |
| 0:56.0 | No, but so we don't, we don't script everything out. |
| 1:00.9 | Yes, I think that's kind of obvious. |
| 1:02.6 | But this time we're just saying, okay, we got the big ideas and we're just going to go with it. |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah, well, because I think, too, that the reason that this is |
| 1:11.0 | going to be a little bit easier and unscripted is because this is literally something we are dealing |
| 1:15.4 | with right now with our own children. You think after having 10 kids, we would have figured it out by |
| 1:21.0 | now? We would have figured out how to manufacture the perfect child. Yeah, but I feel like we're |
| 1:25.4 | always relearning. Now, it's starting at new phases. |
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