MP 032: You can't "Be anything you want to be": Kids and Activities
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
"What I do, you cannot. What you do, I cannot. But together we can make something beautiful for God."
~ Blessed Mother Teresa
In our culture today, kids have so many options for activities that it can be overwhelming! How do you balance family life with sports, theater, groups, and community events especially when you have many children? Exposure to different activities is important because children need a chance to discover their talents. Nevertheless, we are doing a great disservice to our kids when we tell them that they "can be anything they want to be" -- because that simply isn't true. Not everyone can be an award-winning quarterback or the top gymnast! However, it is true that our children each have unique gifts that they need to discover, and part of being a parent is to guide our children through this process and eliminate things on the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:10.2 | And this is hopefully a conversation starter for you and your spouse on marriage and family issues. |
| 0:16.0 | We've been married for 21 years and have 10 children. |
| 0:19.9 | And we don't claim to be experts, but hopefully some |
| 0:22.6 | of the experiences we've had, the ups and the downs, might serve as some insights for you. |
| 0:28.5 | At least that's the goal. Maybe. Maybe not. It's up to you. But at least they'll start a conversation. |
| 0:33.5 | Exactly. At the very least, it'll have a conversation. At the best, you'll get some things that maybe you haven't thought of before. |
| 0:38.9 | That's right. And so the world tells us and tells our kids, you can do anything. |
| 0:44.9 | You can be anything you want to be. That's right. And we're here to say, no, you can't. |
| 0:51.4 | We're here to burst your parent bubble yeah well don't tell your kids that |
| 0:55.2 | before we go any further i think you should pray yes obviously yes we have confused people out |
| 1:01.8 | there some angry people let's pray the name of the father and the son of the holy spirit amen |
| 1:07.1 | lord we thank you for your great gifts that you have given each person in this |
| 1:13.7 | audience, and you have given each one of us and our children. We ask you to help us as parents to just |
| 1:19.5 | have the gift of understanding and wisdom to be able to guide our children on the past that they |
| 1:25.1 | should follow and just to discover the giftednessness that you have given to them oh lord help us as parents also to be good stewards |
| 1:34.2 | of our time and our energy and and to be good stewards of our family time as well give our |
| 1:41.1 | listeners open hearts lord and just let them hear what you want them to hear through this |
| 1:44.3 | podcast we ask this in your name oh jesus amen amen amen well you know we're saying it's |
| 1:51.6 | somewhat tongue-in-cheek but actually i guess it's really true people tell you you could do anything |
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