MFP 175: It's All Worth It! an Interview with the Hernon Kids
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Having all our adult children along with our grandchildren at our house over the holidays reminded us that all the sacrifices we have made over the years (and continue to make!) are all worth it. We thought our listeners would enjoy hearing from our kids' perspective what worked for them and what didn't, what we taught them intentionally or unintentionally, and how these lessons affect them now as adults. We tell parents all the time that is so important to imagine what you want your kids to look like when they are adults, and we have tried to live that out ourselves. Some topics we discuss in this conversation are the importance of forgiveness, "adulting", managing teens, allowing kids to fail, and communicating respect for children so they know their voice matters. We hope you enjoy listening to this conversation because we enjoyed having it!
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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. |
| 0:20.8 | Thank you. but they're not excellent because family life is really messy. |
| 0:30.1 | Welcome to a new year with the messy family project. |
| 0:32.3 | I don't know. |
| 0:33.6 | There's a little aggressive, Mike. I don't know. |
| 0:33.8 | Should I slow it down? |
| 0:34.7 | Oh, we'll edit that out. |
| 0:36.9 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:39.3 | No, no edits. We have a treat for you today. We are so excited to share this next, this podcast with you, honestly. |
| 0:46.7 | We're obviously biased, but we love our kids. But I also- |
| 0:50.3 | We're obviously biased, but our kids are awesome. That's right. Over the holidays, we sat around with our adult children, those who are either in college |
| 1:00.4 | or beyond. |
| 1:01.6 | And we had some questions that we think will be interesting to you because I think one |
| 1:06.7 | of the things we always try to encourage families is to think forward. To think about your |
| 1:13.6 | kids. You know, you may have small little ones now. Think about what they're going to look like |
| 1:17.8 | when they're in their 20s. And so we have some conversations and some insights from them about |
| 1:24.4 | the way that they were raised, but also things that they look back that left |
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