MFP 280: 12 Parenting Tips

Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family

Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family

Parenting, Parent, Podcast, Marriage, Religion & Spirituality, Catholic, Christianity, Kids & Family, Family

5 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Parenting is not an inborn skill. It is something that we learn over time from trial and error and with help from others.

Summary

Over the past 28 years raising our 10 kids we have made a lot of mistakes, but also learned from them! In this podcast, we go over 12 tips that we have found make a big difference in the life of a family. They are principles that we live by and how we have gotten where we are today. None of them are rocket science - but they are things you may not have thought of before or realized how essential they are. We have released this podcast before, but now we have a new perspective since our kids are older and now we have grandkids. The great thing is, we have found that these tips still work! As you listen, make sure that you choose 1 or 2 things that you want to implement in your lives starting this week. Don’t try to do everything! Small changes over time have the biggest impact. Listen in and join the conversation!

Key Takeaways

It is not your job to make your children into saints. It is their job to make YOU into a saint!
You are irreplaceable. Your children will only ever have ONE mom and ONE dad. No one can do for your child what you can do.
Your children cannot be the center of your family. They are part of a community.
Love requires boundaries. But at the same time, remember that rules without relationship breeds rebellion.
Children need to be taught everything. They don’t know the words to say to be respectful, or the way to respond when you ask them to do something. Do not be surprised when they don’t do what you want right away. Your job is to teach them.

Couple Discussion Questions

Do I find it easy or hard to embrace my authority as a parent? Do I recognize my unique place in the life of my child? How would I articulate my role?
How do I feel about my child making me into a saint? What are ways I see them teaching me how to be less selfish?
Do we have a plan for discipline? Are we on the same page? Where do we disagree?

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.
0:28.0	Hello, messy families. Thanks for joining us. It is a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
0:37.5	We are actually really excited.
0:40.4	Before we get into anything else, it's like burning a hole in my pocket.
0:45.2	I got to talk about it.
0:46.1	Okay.
0:46.8	This is our going to be our, the next iteration of the Catholic couples getaway.
0:53.4	Okay.
0:53.7	We've done two of them so far. And I would say
0:56.6	they were- One in Casamel, one to Punta-Cana. And they were fabulous. Yes. And we, when we were in
1:03.5	Punta-Cana, we asked people this last February, we said, hey, who enjoyed this so much that once they want to come back?
1:13.4	We had a ton of people who said, I want to come back and it says, I don't care where you're going.
1:18.4	And they put money down. The greatest testimony of this is that people want to keep coming back to
1:25.0	this. Okay. And we're going to be doing not just one, but two,
1:30.5	because there are more people who want to travel
1:34.0	and get away, refreshing their marriage.
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