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Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
"The family is where children discover how to be human."
- Archbishop Charles Chaput
Over and over again people ask us how to help their kids get along with each other. We usually respond that of course their kids don't get along - because they are kids! That is what you are doing as a parent. You are the ones teaching them how to live at peace with other human beings in the world and they are practicing what you teach them in your home! This is the training ground for their lives. But that doesn't mean that parents do nothing. There are important lessons that parents need to teach their children at home so they can learn key social skills and have great relationships with their siblings not just while they are under your roof, but for the rest of their lives. Listen to this re-release of our 2016 podcast on this subject.
Key Takeaways:
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Be open to giving your children as many siblings as possible.
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Don't always intervene. Let your children alone to work things out on their own.
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Help them value differences between different personalities by learning to appreciate each other.
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Teach them how to forgive and repair relationships when they are broken.
Couple Discussion:
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How can we structure our home routine to foster better relationships between our children?
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Do we intervene too much in sibling conflicts? Not enough?
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Have we taught our children how to ask for forgiveness? If not, how can we do this?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Family, all in this together. |
| 0:08.2 | Family, we're taking a chance. |
| 0:10.8 | Family, like birds of a feather. |
| 0:13.3 | Family, we got my shoes and dance. |
| 0:15.4 | Hey, we are Mike and Alicia Hernin. |
| 0:17.4 | We have 10 kids and grandkids too, and we are here for every parent. Because we are on a |
| 0:22.2 | mission to empower moms and dads to embrace their sacred calling. So join the conversation. |
| 0:28.6 | Family, we're taking a chance. |
| 0:31.1 | Family like birds of a feather. Welcome to the podcast. We're glad you joined us. And we are in the holiday season. That's right. |
| 0:40.1 | This, you know, again, you could listen to this at any time because this is a perennial topic. |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah. But I feel like during the holidays, kids are together with their brothers and sisters more. |
| 0:51.0 | You know, you have a little more family time, which can be a good thing or a stressful |
| 0:54.2 | thing. I mean, it's always a good thing, even if it is a stressful thing. Everywhere we go, |
| 0:58.7 | we do end up getting, this is often a question we get asked about kids fighting, getting along |
| 1:04.3 | and all of that. But we'll get to that topic in a little bit. Yeah. Because it's this time of |
| 1:08.7 | year for us, and I think we've mentioned the last two podcasts. |
| 1:11.3 | This is our big push at the end of the year to fund our next year. |
| 1:17.4 | We get the lion's share of our donations come in at the end of the year. |
| 1:22.4 | And we're able to do this work for families because of donations, because of listeners and supporters who look |
| 1:30.8 | and say, yes, this is worth strengthening the family. So we want to invite families, |
| 1:35.9 | couples to look at us and say, this ministry is worthwhile. Yeah. The small team is worth |
| 1:43.1 | investing in because of the courses, the outreach, |
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