MP 011: Family Meals
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2015
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
~Ronald Reagan
Those of us who grew up with family dinners and who continue that tradition with our kids may not realize how counter-cultural we are becoming! Having dinner as a family is one thing you can do for your children to help keep them healthy, emotionally stable, and academically successful. It's a simple thing, so why doesn't every family have dinner together? In this podcast, we discuss why family dinners are an important part of our parenting, why they can be challenging, and some ideas to make your mealtime even better than it is now! Listen in and join the conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family issues. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm Mike. |
| 0:15.7 | And I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:17.4 | And we are a married couple. |
| 0:19.7 | We've been married 21 years now and have three months. |
| 0:23.9 | It feels like 20 kids. No, no, I guess 10 kids. And ages almost 20 down to two. And we are not |
| 0:32.5 | experts. We've been encouraged to do this podcast really just to share some of the positives and the |
| 0:37.2 | negatives, the wisdom and the negatives, |
| 0:37.7 | the wisdom and the experiences we've had. |
| 0:41.1 | So you don't make the same mistakes that we make. |
| 0:42.6 | That's right. |
| 0:43.1 | And hopefully we aren't repeating the same ones, but I've got really bad memories, so we might. |
| 0:47.8 | But today we want to talk to you about something that you can do in your family that would automatically set your kids up for success in their health, |
| 0:58.6 | in their body, improving their academic scores, making them more bonded with each other as siblings |
| 1:05.4 | and with you as a family, and statistics and everything else has proven this would be a perfect thing. |
| 1:13.2 | And it's actually something that we're really required to do. |
| 1:16.7 | It probably takes about five hours, maybe seven, depending on how you play it out. |
| 1:20.7 | Five hours a week. |
| 1:21.6 | A week. |
| 1:22.0 | Not a day. |
| 1:22.6 | That's right. |
| 1:23.8 | And would you be interested in doing that? |
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