MP 010: Lying
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2015
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
"Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight." Proverbs 12:22
One of the trickiest parenting situations to deal with is when a child tells a lie. Do you punish them? If you do that, won't they keep lying to avoid punishment in the future? How do you know they are lying? What if you think they are lying, and they are actually telling the truth? In this podcast, we will share with you what we did in our family when we had kids in our household who had a habit of lying. What we've learned is there is not a "one size fits all" approach to this issue, but we can give you some ideas and suggestions as we share our experiences with you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Messy Parenting. |
| 0:10.1 | This is a Catholic conversation on marriage and family issues. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:15.4 | And I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:17.4 | And we are not experts. |
| 0:19.8 | We've been doing this podcast out of the encouragement and coercion of our family members. |
| 0:25.1 | And we are not experts. |
| 0:26.6 | So we don't claim to have all the authority. |
| 0:28.9 | We've been married 21 years and have 10 kids, too often college, and down to 2-year-old as well. |
| 0:37.7 | Yep. So we're doing it all. |
| 0:38.8 | Yeah, so we've got a little mixture, some experience, some wisdom. |
| 0:42.0 | And the hope here is that this is a beginning of a conversation that you may have with your spouse. |
| 0:47.7 | And hopefully you'll come up with a better plan and develop a more intentional parenting for you in your life. |
| 0:54.1 | And we're going to talk about something today that is really an important topic of conversation |
| 0:58.9 | for you and your spouse to talk about how you're going to deal with kids lying, |
| 1:03.1 | which is very tricky. |
| 1:05.1 | I think that it's a difficult thing for a lot of parents. |
| 1:07.3 | And so we thought we'd just share some of our experiences and what we've done and how we've handled. Because our children, I know, would be so hard for people to believe |
| 1:15.1 | who know them. They are not perfect. But we have had situations of lying in our family, and I thought |
| 1:21.6 | we could. It'd be helpful if we shared our experience. Okay. Well, let me begin with a prayer. |
| 1:25.7 | In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, we invite you into our time together and our sharing and our |
| 1:32.5 | conversation. We ask you to be with us. You who are the way, the truth, and the life, Jesus Christ, |
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