MFP 147: Judgy Parents, Toddlers in Stores and Mean Teens
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
There are many parents who look for advice from friends, and sometimes the responses are in the form of absolute declarations about the "only way" to parent. In reality, many parenting matters are best left to an individual's judgment. As Catholics, we believe that there are certain issues that are black and white, but not everything falls into that category! The first step to responding to others with charity is to realize that our way is not always the way for everyone. In this episode, we also take on a question about discipline when you have 3 under 3, which gives us the chance to talk about toddlers - one of our favorite topics! And we play a recording of a question sent in by a listener about mentoring teen boys whose brains are being flooded with testosterone. Our answer? Look to the elephants. No, really, we do say that. Listen in and join the conversation!
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For More:
- Elephants and Dads- https://www.fatherhood.org/fatherhood/humans-and-elephants-both-fare-better-with-dads-around
- Catholic Differences- https://reginadoman.blogspot.com/2020/12/my-family-church-church-as-big-rowdy.html
- Discipling and Disciplining Our Teenagers- https://www.messyfamilyproject.org/mp-064-discipling-and-disciplining-our-teenagers-pt-1/
- Guide to Discipline- https://www.messyfamilyproject.org/discipline-guide/
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. |
| 0:14.3 | And Alicia Hornin. |
| 0:15.8 | They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts. |
| 0:18.6 | Because family life is really messy. |
| 0:24.2 | So, welcome. but that I'm excellent because family life is really messy. So welcome to the program. |
| 0:26.6 | We are so happy you're here. |
| 0:28.9 | And sometimes we have a lot of people listening. |
| 0:32.8 | So it's still Advent when we're recording this, |
| 0:34.9 | but people sometimes listen later and we'll listen in the new year. |
| 0:38.5 | But happy Advent, almost Merry Christmas. |
| 0:41.6 | And you know what? Gosh, last week, every time my kids would come downstairs, they would go over to the Advent calendar and they'd be like, it's only 10 days till Christmas. |
| 0:50.1 | And they're so excited. And all I could be was like, oh, stop saying that. |
| 0:55.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.4 | Because it just like strikes fear into my heart because I'm like, I haven't not bought any gifts. |
| 1:00.2 | I have, blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:00.8 | I know Christmas is the same time this year as it was last year. |
| 1:04.1 | Did not sneak up on us. |
| 1:05.8 | Like we kind of knew when it was. |
| 1:07.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.5 | So we have been a little sick and under the weather and it's crazy times, the different |
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