MP 005: Preparing your Tween (and yourself!) for Adolescence
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2015
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The changes that happens in adolescence - physically, emotionally, mentally- are very similar to the changes that happen during the toddler years. In both stages your child is developing in leaps and bounds and you are the one God has tasked to guide them. In this podcast, we share some of our ideas and what we have done with our children to create rites of passage, give information when they need it, and helping them solidify their gender identity. This is a crucial time in the lives of our children and its important to be intentional and have a plan of how you are going to help them and love them during this time. This is geared especially for parents with kids in the "tween" and early teen years, 11-14.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Michael Hernan. |
| 0:11.8 | And I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:13.6 | And this is a podcast, although I guess, you know, now that we're five or six podcasts in, it's hard to say this, but we were coerced into doing this, although we're enjoying it now. |
| 0:24.9 | We were coerced into doing this by family members who wanted us to do this. |
| 0:29.9 | And this is our sharing some insights and experiences from our marriage. |
| 0:34.4 | We are not counselors. |
| 0:36.0 | We're not theologians. |
| 0:37.4 | We're not experts. But we're just |
| 0:39.9 | sharing some of the experiences we have. And the point of this podcast is really to let you in on |
| 0:46.5 | conversations we've had over the last 21 years of our marriage. We have 10 kids. But hopefully |
| 0:52.1 | this might spark something for you and your spouse to talk about with your marriage and family life. |
| 0:57.5 | Right. |
| 0:58.1 | And today's topic is a not easy age group to deal with sometimes as a parent. |
| 1:04.7 | I think it's an awesome age. |
| 1:06.5 | And this is our tween years. |
| 1:08.5 | You're 11, 12 year old, so like 13, 14. |
| 1:13.5 | Right. |
| 1:14.3 | So we call it, well, we'll wait and surprise you with that. |
| 1:18.8 | Okay. |
| 1:19.5 | So Alicia, why don't you start us with a prayer? |
| 1:21.2 | Sure. |
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