MFP 203: Will My Kids Ever Get Along?
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
"The family is where children discover how to be human. It's where they learn how to respect and love other people.. where they discover their place in a family story larger than themselves." -Archbishop Charles Chaput
We meet parents all the time who tell us, "My kids don't get along!" and our response is, "Of course they don't get along. That is kind of what your job is as parents. To teach them how to live in peace with other people and they practice this with their siblings." Family is the training ground for life. This is where children learn how to be human - to fight, to forgive, to share, to live in community. Parents must be the stewards of the culture of the family and part of that culture is the relationship between brothers and sisters. The greatest gift a parent can give their child is a brother or sister - but that is just a starting point. We parents also need to intentionally work to teach those brothers and sisters to love each other. Because strong sibling relationships are one of life's greatest joys. Listen in as we discuss this essential topic for parents.
Check out our blog post on this topic: Encouraging Good Sibling Relationships
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the messy family podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | 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. |
| 0:23.8 | Hello, messy families. Thanks for joining us for another episode in the messy family podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | You know, the dog days of summer are here and I can't believe we're getting to the end. |
| 0:37.3 | But we had such a great week at Catholic family. |
| 0:40.8 | And our family's been going there for a number of years, but it was so great to spend |
| 0:43.9 | some time with some friends and listeners that were there and for other just families. |
| 0:49.9 | It's a great place for our kids. |
| 0:51.4 | We were driving home and my preteen or almost teenager daughter said to me, |
| 0:57.6 | he says, Dad, why do they call it family land? |
| 0:59.4 | Because it should be called Friendland, because that's one of my best friends are, |
| 1:02.7 | who love God and want to have fun. |
| 1:05.0 | And no greater advertisement in my book is that. |
| 1:09.2 | But because we've been gone and doing some traveling and otherwise, |
| 1:13.5 | Alicia is preoccupied for this moment. So we're actually going to re-release a podcast on a topic |
| 1:20.8 | we get asked a lot about. People are always challenged with how do they make their kids get along, right? The challenges that we have in the |
| 1:31.4 | sibling relationships. This is an important topic and it's really vital for us as parents to |
| 1:37.4 | really spend some time thinking on this. And we want to dive right into today's topic. |
| 1:47.0 | And before that, just as a reminder, if you're on our email list, you've already seen this or will be seeing this shortly here, a little bit |
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