MP 045: The Aggressive Child
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
"The Lord gave me this challenging child for a purpose. He wants me to mold and shape this youngster and prepare him or her for a life of service to Him."
― James C. Dobson
This episode is really meant for parents of little kids who cause problems. Such as toddlers who push other kids, kids whom they really like but don't know how to play with. The reaction of our society to these children (who are usually boys) ranges from disbelieving shock ("How could that child DO such a thing?") to indifference ("He is just going through a stage"), but neither response is really the right one. Little guys like this are just amazing bundles of raw personality! But these little personalites need to be formed and trained by their parents – and yes, that means you. It can be truly embarrassing to have an aggressive child, but get used to it because your child is just beginning his work of embarrassing you! We also have some advice for kids at the other end of the spectrum - those who get picked on and pushed over. They too need to learn the right way to respond that will not teach them to be a doormat, which is not what we want our children to be. We also respond to a listener question from our podcast on Criticizing your husband.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.8 | And we've been married for a little over 22 years, and we have 10 children from ages 3 to 20. |
| 0:17.1 | We are far from experts, but we want to share some of the insights from our ups and downs of parenting |
| 0:22.9 | because life is, and parenting probably even more so, life and parenting are messy. |
| 0:28.9 | Yeah, and one of the things that makes parenting messy is when your kids are aggressive, |
| 0:34.8 | more aggressive than you think they should be. And I think that this is something |
| 0:38.8 | that's in our modern psychology, if you kind of like Google this, you can come up with a lot of |
| 0:44.0 | different answers. And some of them, if they're not given by parents who have actually experienced |
| 0:50.1 | it, are not necessarily going to be helpful. I'm going to be a little aggressive here and say we you know |
| 0:55.2 | go out a limb yeah there are there's somebody listening to this who may have had or has a child or |
| 1:02.1 | knows a child uh that is a little bit more aggressive than than you would like right and so maybe the |
| 1:08.0 | teacher would like or maybe you know who knows what the situation might be yeah and so we're going to talk about this because i maybe, you know, who knows what the situation might be. Exactly. |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.7 | And so we're going to talk about this because I think it's a pretty common problem. |
| 1:17.9 | And it's, I think our society sometimes can tend to make it a bigger deal than it has to be. |
| 1:18.4 | Right. |
| 1:19.9 | But anyway, but why don't you go ahead and pray? |
| 1:20.5 | That sounds great. And so we can start. Lord Jesus Christ, we invite you into our time right now to be with us, to inspire, enlighten us, |
| 1:31.2 | to give us a sense of peace, hope, and purpose in our lives. |
| 1:35.7 | In the midst of the craziness with our challenges and struggles, both in parenting and marriage, |
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