MP 018: Games
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
I love playing with preschoolers. They make me feel so powerful!
Family game night is quickly becoming lost in our technological age, but it is an extremely valuable pastime for families with many benefits. Not only can board games bring people together, but they also exercise our brains and people skills while having fun! Listen in as we discuss why we play games with our family, the types of games to play, and some obstacles we have encountered with our kids.
What are your top three family games, games you played when you were growing up or games you play now?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:12.0 | And we are not experts, but this is a, we've been married for 21 years, have 10 kids. |
| 0:18.0 | That's our only claim to any insight whatsoever. We've been married and we have a bunch of kids. That's our only claim to any insight whatsoever. |
| 0:21.6 | We've been married and we have a bunch of kids. |
| 0:24.8 | We've made a lot of successes and had some failures along the way. |
| 0:28.2 | And we're here to just offer you some advice like an older brother or sister, basically. |
| 0:32.4 | That's right. |
| 0:32.9 | That's right. |
| 0:33.6 | And as we're coming into the summertime now, kids are out from school, at least most many kids are. |
| 0:42.2 | And we thought an interesting topic might be games tonight. |
| 0:45.6 | Right, family games. |
| 0:46.9 | But before we do that, let's say a prayer. |
| 0:49.3 | Okay, go ahead and you pray. |
| 0:50.7 | And then the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:53.8 | Lord God, we ask you to be with us, |
| 0:56.8 | to watch over us, to let your sacred heart reign in our families, in our homes, in our hearts. |
| 1:03.4 | Right now and for all eternity, we ask all of this in your name. Amen. Amen. Father, Son, |
| 1:30.1 | Holy Spirit. Amen. Okay, So the topic tonight is family games. And I think it's always important for us to start with why. You know, why are games important? Games are fun. There's nothing wrong. I don't think anybody really disputes games, right? There's no like anti-gaming conspiracy out there. |
| 1:35.9 | But I think it's important that, you know, these things that we just kind of trivily go over, |
| 1:42.1 | just playing shoots and ladders or, you know, playing Connect 4 or whatever the games might be, |
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