MP 048: Age Appropriateness
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
You can't put your head in the sand. If you don't bring up tough issues with your child, they are going to encounter those issues, but from someone else's perspective.
When do you bring up sticky issues with your kids? It's so hard to know when and if you should discuss things like terrorism, abortion, or where babies come from. Kids bring up topics at the most inconvenient times! Plus, life is messy and as much as we would like to keep our children innocent forever, that is just not possible. In this podcast, we share some of our experiences and give some guidelines on how we have handled these issues with our kids. Listen in and let the conversation begin.
Discussion Questions:
- How will we protect our child's innocence?
- What issues are on the horizon for our family?
- What's our response as parents to these issues?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.3 | And our hope with this podcast in general is to spark some conversations for you and your spouse so that you might be more intentional parents and do a more effective job in your marriage and family life. |
| 0:21.1 | And I think that part of doing that is having that conversation with your spouse about how |
| 0:26.6 | you're going to handle certain issues and not to be, to try to be prepared and not blindsided |
| 0:32.3 | by things that comes up because parenting is messy and difficult. And there is really no |
| 0:37.4 | tried and true way or book |
| 0:39.9 | or anything that's going to there wasn't an owner's manual when we got these kids that's what I'm |
| 0:44.4 | talking about exactly kids keep you on the edge of your seat yeah and kids are full of surprises |
| 0:50.1 | and life is messy and we're going to deal with stuff. Today we're to talk about age appropriateness |
| 0:55.8 | and because what's right to share. And the world that we live in is messy. That's right. |
| 1:01.7 | Unfortunately and how do we? That's putting it mildly. That's putting it in the censored version. |
| 1:07.5 | And at some point your kids are going to have or go to realize yeah, I don't live in, you know, a perfect land and a perfect world. |
| 1:14.6 | But how, when is the right time for them to realize that? That's right. So before we go too deep in the subject, let's, let's start in prayer. So in the name of the father and the son and the Holy Spirit, amen. Oh, Lord, we come before you with great needs. We as parents, Lord, know that we need |
| 1:31.2 | your wisdom, your grace, your mercy in our lives to help us navigate in this crazy, chaotic world. |
| 1:39.3 | Give us the strength, the wisdom, and the courage to be bold, courageous Catholics who are in love with you |
| 1:46.1 | and your church and who want nothing but your best for our children. So bless us all, Lord, |
| 1:52.7 | and this, this holy and amazing mission of parenting. You ask this in your name, amen. Amen. |
| 2:00.0 | God's Holy Spirit, amen. And. Amen. God's the Holy Spirit. |
| 2:00.9 | Amen. |
| 2:01.4 | And you started saying bless us, oh, Lord. |
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