MP 014: Chores
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
"The desire of a child to do a chore is inversely proportionate to their ability to do it." ~ attributed to a frustrated mother
Chores are a part of every family's life, or at least they should be! Sometimes, faced with children who can't do a job correctly and with children who refuse to do a job without complaining, parents find it easier to just do everything themselves. But this doesn't teach children responsibility, nor the essential life skills every person needs. So why are chores valuable? More importantly, how can we get our kids to do them?
Show Notes:
- Age-appropriate chores from Focus on the Family
- Happy Housewife chores based on age
- Maria Montessori's philosophy on children's work
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:12.3 | And I'm Alicia. |
| 0:13.7 | And just in case you haven't listened to the podcast before, we've been married 21 years, have 10 children, ages almost 20 to 2, and this podcast is |
| 0:26.2 | geared at being a conversation as a brother or sister might have, you know, maybe an older |
| 0:31.8 | brother or sister or somebody to share in their insights, their wisdoms. |
| 0:34.7 | And our mistakes and the things that we have learned more from our accidents than we've learned from our good lessons. |
| 0:40.6 | As a matter of fact, I think we have like three accidents among our children. |
| 0:43.4 | We won't mention any names. |
| 0:48.0 | Right now we are actually on the way to go... |
| 0:50.1 | We're on a little adventure, really, yeah. |
| 0:52.3 | Spending some time with our in-laws and siblings there. |
| 0:57.4 | It's my brother's birthday, so we're taking a, the two of us taking a nine-hour drive |
| 1:00.7 | down to Tennessee to be with him for an adult-only weekends. |
| 1:04.0 | So we're in a, what I'd characterize as a super budget inn. |
| 1:09.3 | They don't even have the budget in sign out yet. |
| 1:12.3 | But hey, it was cheap. |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah, yeah, very interesting. |
| 1:14.6 | Like little chairs that are falling apart and the doors are splitting. |
| 1:17.0 | But, you know, it was... |
| 1:17.9 | It's basically clean and it's cheap. |
| 1:19.7 | I think there's like five other people here. |
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