MP 006: The Survival Zone
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
You want to know what it's like having a fourth kid? Imagine you are drowning and then someone hands you a baby. ~Jim Gaffigan
We believe the most challenging years of parenting are not related to how many kids you have, but rather how close in age they are. Young families say to us all the time, "We shouldn't complain because we only have three kids and you have ten." This is not true! The period of time when your family consists of kids who are all in car seats, can't tie their own shoes, and are barely potty trained is an extremely difficult time. Be encouraged! This is a phase that doesn't last forever (though it feels like an eternity at the time). Just think- if you can survive this, you can survive anything!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:11.1 | My name is Michael Hernan. |
| 0:12.7 | And I am Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:14.5 | And we've been married for 21 years, have 10 kids, and we were cajoled and somewhat coerced into doing this podcast by family members. |
| 0:25.4 | And we're not pretending to be experts on this podcast or in podcasting in general. |
| 0:32.0 | Yes, that's for sure. |
| 0:33.7 | But this is a beginning for us of a conversation, sharing some of our insights and experiences, |
| 0:40.8 | and maybe this is a beginning of a conversation for you and your spouse. |
| 0:45.3 | And today we're going to talk about something that's really close to my heart, |
| 0:48.2 | and we're going to call these the survival zone. |
| 0:51.2 | This is the survival zone. |
| 0:53.1 | And I'm talking to you, mother of four children and |
| 0:57.1 | your oldest is five. All I can hear is you're American hero. You are American heroes. |
| 1:05.1 | Real American heroes today. There you go. Okay. So why don't you go ahead and pray. |
| 1:11.0 | We can get started. |
| 1:11.7 | All right. |
| 1:12.1 | So we begin, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen. |
| 1:16.3 | Lord Jesus Christ, you are the king of our families and the king of our hearts, |
| 1:20.5 | and we invite you into this 30 minutes here of conversation. |
| 1:25.2 | We ask you to particularly bless those who are in this survival zone, |
| 1:28.1 | those young families who are struggling with lots of young kids that are always pulling at them |
| 1:33.6 | and drawing their attention to so many things. Lord, let our hearts and our minds always be fixed on you, |
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