MP 033: Educational choices: how do you know what's best for your child?

Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family

Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family

Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Kids & Family

4.9 • 841 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

"…parents must be acknowledged as the first and foremost educators of their children. Their role as educators is so decisive that scarcely anything can compensate for their failure in it."
~ Familiaris Consortio #36

Making educational choices for our children is a daunting and stressful task for most parents. How do parents know what will be best for their children and for their families? The reality is that no one can make this decision for you. Parents need the grace of God to consider homeschooling, public school, or Catholic school and chose what is best for their child. In this podcast, we give some principles that we have used to guide our decisions and share some experiences of all the different schooling options we have chosen.

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0:00.0	Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family.
0:08.6	I'm Mike Hernan.
0:09.4	And I'm Alicia Hernan.
0:10.8	And we've been married for 21 years, have 10 children, ages 3 to 20.
0:15.5	And hopefully this...
0:16.9	We'll have to change your intro pretty soon.
0:18.7	Well, not with the kids.
0:19.9	Just to be clear.
0:20.8	Yeah, not with the number. Just to be clear.
0:20.8	Yeah, not with the number of kids.
0:22.8	Yes, this is not an announcement of any sort.
0:25.1	Yeah, don't worry.
0:27.3	Hey, we're always open, but 10 is good for us.
0:31.3	I have a good friend who always says, who has 12 children.
0:35.2	He says, so when are you guys going to start having a big family?
0:38.4	But anyway.
0:39.4	Sorry, had nothing to do with what we're talking about today.
0:43.1	But today we wanted to talk about something that we got a lot of questions on,
0:46.0	a lot of comments came in from our survey and some of the emails about schooling,
0:52.2	how to choose the right schooling option for your kids, your family.
0:55.6	And this is something that we're excited to talk about because we've kind of done it all.
1:00.4	We have kids all over the place.
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