MP 043: Raising confident kids who aren't full of themselves
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2016
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
"I have this problem with low self-esteem, which is really ridiculous when you consider how amazing I am."
~ the modern child
Raising confident children is the obsession of many parents today. Cries of "Good job!" "You can do it!" "You are awesome!" can be heard in playgrounds, sporting events, and auditoriums all over the country. Is this really how we should ground our children and help them to be the best they can be? The key to self-esteem is not what you do, but who you are. Who are you? You are a child of God, created in His image. Listen in as we delve into this topic and explore how we can communicate to our children a true confidence based on reality.
Some questions to start a discussion:
- What activities can I do to help give my child confidence?
- How do I build my teen's identity as a child of God?
- Where does my own identity come from? In my accomplishments or in who I am?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:08.9 | And this is a conversation starter for you and your spouse. |
| 0:13.3 | It's messy because life's a little messy. |
| 0:15.5 | You know, sometimes our rooms are a little messy, as Alicia is throwing my clothes over the side. |
| 0:21.3 | But, you know, our life is not perfect. |
| 0:23.9 | We have kids ages from three to 20. |
| 0:28.3 | For in one second, I thought you were to say we had three kids. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm like, oh gosh, Mike's memory's getting really bad. |
| 0:33.2 | We have three teenagers at home with us currently. |
| 0:35.9 | Yep, two kids in college and five kids under the age of 10. |
| 0:39.0 | So it's very interesting. |
| 0:40.3 | Doing it all over here. |
| 0:41.6 | Yep. |
| 0:41.9 | And we don't claim not only not to be experts, but I think we're still a work in progress. |
| 0:47.9 | And we're offering some of the insights we've had and also sharing insights from other people. |
| 0:53.3 | We, the last podcast, we talked about |
| 0:55.4 | family routines and we did that while we were traveling back from Washington, D.C. Um, uh, |
| 1:02.1 | from Snowmageddon. And, uh, it was a fun, beautiful, awesome time. We had four days, I think, |
| 1:09.2 | four days, uh, just my wife and I, which was amazing because she's |
| 1:13.0 | amazing. |
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