MP 058: Becoming a Parent
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
"I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing." ~ Jim Gaffigan, Dad Is Fat
Babies are a joy. If you are married without children, people will often tell you that no one can describe what it's like to be a parent, and they are right! Parenthood is something that has to be lived through to understand because you can't explain it. God has this amazing way of combining an experience that is exciting, frustrating, amazing, and discouraging all at once. He does all this to form us into who He wants us to be, which is the best version of ourselves. In this podcast, we offer some encouragement, a dose of realism, and of course, practical advice in navigating the transition from being a married couple to being parents.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm Alicia Hernan. And as you are familiar, this is a podcast not done by experts. We have 10 children, |
| 0:16.8 | but I'm not sure if that makes us an expert or crazy, probably a little bit of both. |
| 0:22.4 | Maybe, I don't know. |
| 0:22.9 | Yes. |
| 0:26.0 | Well, in this podcast, we're going to be talking about babies. |
| 0:36.0 | And I think that there's very few people out there who have taken care of 10 different newborns. |
| 0:36.6 | True. |
| 0:38.0 | And live to tell them. |
| 0:40.5 | We did get a T-shirt. |
| 0:46.9 | So I do have to say I feel more confident in talking about this topic than probably most of the topics that we talk about. |
| 0:49.4 | Well, yes. |
| 0:50.5 | And also because I know this is a real shocker to anyone listening to this. |
| 0:55.9 | But we love babies. |
| 0:57.9 | We really do. |
| 0:59.6 | Kids are cool. |
| 1:00.9 | I remember somebody came to our house. |
| 1:02.9 | I think we had like six kids. |
| 1:04.6 | Somebody came over and they had like a newborn. |
| 1:06.4 | And at that time we had no babies. |
| 1:08.7 | You know, we had no newborns. |
| 1:10.0 | We had like maybe a two year old or whatever and |
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