MP 023: Friendship and our kids
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2015
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." ~ George Washington
It doesn't take a village to raise a child, but the village is certainly an important part of his growth and development! The friendships that our children have, even at the earliest ages, are an important training ground for life. As parents, we can't micromanage our children's friendships, but we can guide them and provide a fertile environment for healthy relationships to grow. It's important to do this when they are young, because as children grow, friendships become more and more important and parents have less and less influence over those friendships. Listen in as we discuss this topic and its importance in the lives of our children.
"A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter. He who finds one finds a treasure." ~ Sirach 6:14
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:10.6 | And I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:12.1 | And this seems silly saying this over and over again, but we are not experts. |
| 0:16.1 | So, you know, we claim no responsibility for the mistakes uh, the mistakes we have made in our lives. |
| 0:21.9 | Well, I guess we do claim. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah. Claim responsibility for our mistakes, but not for the perfect information that we may give you. |
| 0:29.2 | Right. |
| 0:29.5 | But what we offer you is our experiences and our failures and, and just some of our thoughts on parenting |
| 0:35.2 | issues as we all try to raise our children in the Catholic faith. |
| 0:40.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.5 | Yeah, and so messy parenting is because it's not perfect. |
| 0:44.3 | Every situation is a little bit different, |
| 0:46.2 | but we're trying to share with you some of the experiences we've had, |
| 0:49.3 | and maybe you're going to have a different application |
| 0:51.3 | because that's the beauty of our church and our faith and |
| 0:55.6 | our humanity that everyone's a little bit different. Today we're going to talk about a kind of broad |
| 1:00.9 | but important topic and that is of friendships. Friendships for our kids. We'll do another podcast |
| 1:06.2 | on friendships for adults, but today is friendship with kids. That's why we need to do a podcast. |
| 1:12.2 | That's not true. |
| 1:13.2 | That he doesn't have any friends. |
| 1:13.8 | So don't we start with prayer? |
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