MP 034: Challenges of Being a Millennial Parent
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
You might be a millennial parent if you… have more pictures of your kids than you do of yourself on social media, feed your kids only organic food, regularly ask the internet for parenting advice, have a tattoo or piercing, or...
The generation born between 1980-2000 has a particular way of parenting that is unique. Recently TIME magazine ran an article called "Help! My Parents are Millennials!" and we thought it would be a good idea to address some of the issues it brought to light. This generation is affected by the culture in some very good ways, but also in some very unhealthy ways. It's important to be open-minded, tolerant, and questioning, but not at the expense of being obedient, respectful, and humble. In this podcast, we look at how Millennials are parenting their children and what their particular challenges are.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Messy Parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:10.2 | And Messy Parenting podcast is intent on giving you some thoughts, advice, wisdom from our 21 years of marriage and our 10 children. |
| 0:20.2 | I thought you were going to say from our non-expert. |
| 0:23.3 | Yeah. Well, it's definitely from a non-expert position for sure. So, you know, listener, beware. |
| 0:30.7 | That's right. We have failed probably at least as much as we have succeeded. But our hope is that it starts a conversation with you as we share some of the insights |
| 0:39.6 | and ups and downs that we've had in the last 21 years of marriage, 10 kids. |
| 0:44.6 | You know, pretty interesting background. |
| 0:46.9 | But anyway, today, since not all, but many of the people who listen to the podcast, as we've |
| 0:52.5 | seen from some of the surveys in the past, are millennials. |
| 0:57.7 | Right. |
| 0:58.2 | And we were going to talk about that. |
| 0:59.6 | And there was what inspired our podcast today is there's an article in Time magazine, if any of you get time, called Help. |
| 1:08.1 | My parents are millennials. |
| 1:10.4 | And when I was reading it, i really felt like it opened my |
| 1:13.2 | eyes to what a lot of young parents today are dealing with and so we thought you know what let's |
| 1:18.2 | respond this article because i feel like it was in many ways that could cry for help so um it's a good |
| 1:23.7 | there's a good good tip off here yeah it's a really good article. Let's start with prayer. |
| 1:28.0 | Okay, so in the name of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:30.8 | Amen. |
| 1:31.4 | Lord, we ask for your Holy Spirit to come and be with us as we do this podcast and bless those |
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