MP 038: Music in the Home
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
"Musical nourishment which is 'rich in vitamins' is essential for children." ~ Zoltan Kodaly, music educator
Music is a powerful tool, and an absolutely unique vehicle for ideas, emotions, and stimulation. As parents, we need to train our children to recognize music that is good and music that is not worth listening to. By exposing our children to lots of different types of music, we can help them to make judgments and choose what is good. We can't underestimate the importance of music in our culture and in our home.
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything." ~ Plato
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.7 | And this is a podcast dedicated to more intentional parenting. |
| 0:14.6 | We've been married for 21 years and have 10 children. |
| 0:18.7 | And we do not claim to be experts on any level. However, through some |
| 0:24.0 | of our mistakes and failures, maybe we can share some insights and wisdom or at least things you may |
| 0:30.2 | say, I don't even want to go there. But we also would like you to have a conversation with your |
| 0:35.4 | spouse. That's right. Maybe this will start. And bring up some topics for you guys to talk about because really this podcast is coming out of the many |
| 0:40.9 | conversations that we've had driving in the car or, you know, late at night when the kids are in bed. And we'd like to hear of more couples doing that. |
| 0:48.4 | Yeah. Yeah. I think it's important for us to just dialogue on these things, to really be more thoughtful and intentional and how we go about parenting and living at our married life. |
| 0:58.0 | So today, we are going to do a topic that my mother has been bugging us to do, I don't know, for the past year. |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah, well, at least the last six months. |
| 1:07.2 | When we did our survey a couple months ago, she went and took the survey. |
| 1:11.4 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kind of trying to be stealth there. But then we quickly figured out, |
| 1:17.1 | who has 10 children over the age of 60? Over the age of 50 who listened to our podcast. Oh, |
| 1:22.3 | yeah, that's my mom. Yeah. Anyway, so the topic that she asked us to do is music. |
| 1:28.0 | Right. |
| 1:32.2 | Which may be surprising for some people because maybe it's not such a big issue. |
| 1:33.7 | But I think it's an important topic. |
| 1:36.2 | I think it's actually, it does affect all of us. |
| 1:37.8 | It's a very, very important topic. |
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