MFP 185: "I Will Survive!" Life with Toddlers and Infants
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Living life with infants and toddlers is no joke. And the more you have the crazier your life is! We all know life is more than survival, but there were plenty of times that all Alicia could think when she woke up was "I just have to make it till nap time". In this MFP classic episode which first aired in 2015, we talk about living life with kids under 5 without losing your mind. We give some practical tips for managing your children, ways to keep your marriage alive at this time, and how to act as a team in these crucial years. Even though the "Survival Zone" is in our distant memory, we now have grandchildren who remind us regularly how much energy kids take! Listen in for these essential tips in getting through these difficult times with grace and joy.
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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 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. Hello, messy. It is great to be here in this lovely studio with you, Alicia. |
| 0:41.1 | Yes. Well, thank you. |
| 0:43.1 | And I'm so glad. I don't know. Thank you because the studio is lovely or I don't know. |
| 0:47.3 | You're lovely. Oh, that was unclear. Unclear. We'll go back and listen to the recording later. |
| 0:52.2 | It is, it is lovely to be with you. |
| 0:54.9 | There you go. |
| 0:56.4 | That sounds great. |
| 1:04.8 | So this is really going to be a fun podcast because I re-listened to this podcast before we're airing it. |
| 1:07.5 | And I felt like it was like back in a time machine or something. |
| 1:11.5 | It was just, I was like, this is when Claire, our Claire is now nine years old and this is, we recorded this when she was two. It's like, oh my gosh. This is crazy. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah, but they actually do grow up, right? I know. They just wanted to bring that out there. |
| 1:21.9 | Public service announcement. So anyway, we have just finished up, um, about two months of really doing a lot of intense work with our listeners. |
| 1:32.3 | I love it. |
| 1:33.4 | One of the things that we've been added to in the last year, so depending on when you've been listening to us, is this idea of courses and teaching more, which has been so great because where in the world |
| 1:47.1 | is there a, you know, kids don't come with a manual. Parents don't have a seminary. You know, |
| 1:53.1 | we might go to marriage prep, but that's about all you get. Right, right. Who prepares you for being a |
| 1:58.8 | parent? So in response to all of that, we've started these courses. |
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