MP 052: YES, Your Kids CAN be Best Friends
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
"I don't believe an accident of birth makes people brothers or sisters. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood or brotherhood is a condition people have to work at."
– Maya Angelou
Growing up, all each of us remembers was fighting with our siblings. Now, they are our best friends, an integral part of our identity. How did that happen? Creating an environment in which siblings can form sisterhood and brotherhood should be an essential part of your parenting playbook. Your children's relationships need to survive distance, conflict, and the test of time long after you and your spouse are gone. How do you do that now? How do you make that a priority in your family? Listen in as we share our experiences as siblings and as parents in a large Catholic family.
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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. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.8 | And as we have shared before, we are not experts. |
| 0:13.1 | We're simply a parents of 10 children who've been married 23 years, give or take. |
| 0:21.7 | And 22 and a half. 22 and a half, you know, give or take. 22 and a half. |
| 0:22.6 | 22 and a half, you know, almost. |
| 0:24.5 | And we are just trying to share some insights from the ups and downs. |
| 0:29.3 | We are far from perfect and we are far from experts. |
| 0:32.3 | And at this moment, we are recording on a Saturday morning, |
| 0:34.8 | and I think it will be a miracle if we get through this without someone interrupting us. |
| 0:38.8 | Amen. |
| 0:39.1 | So, because I can hear little kids yelling downstairs. |
| 0:43.1 | Hey, that's life, right? |
| 0:44.2 | So we will see. |
| 0:45.2 | And actually, it's good because we hear the siblings at work. |
| 0:50.3 | And that's what this podcast is about. |
| 0:53.7 | That's right. |
| 0:55.7 | That's right. So before we do that, let's just just go for a prayer why don't you go ahead and pray okay and then the father and the son |
| 1:00.1 | and the holy spirit lord jesus we invite you into our our time right now we ask you to be with us |
| 1:08.2 | the greatest heart and desire of our parent is for their children, that they would be not only safe, but get along with each other. |
| 1:15.7 | Lord, we pray for our kids. |
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