MP 061: Listener Questions Answered
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
"In children, we have a great charge committed to us. Let us bestow great care upon them…Form the soul of thy son aright, and all the rest will be added hereafter." —St. John Chrysostom
We are so grateful for all the people who have emailed us encouraging words and stories of how these podcasts have touched their lives. We are MOST grateful for those people who email us questions because we can use them as topics for our podcasts! Thank you for trusting us enough to ask for our help. In this episode, we take some time to answer questions and give encouragement to those who have asked us about issues like teaching gratefulness, getting kids to sleep, and tithing. Keep those questions coming!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.9 | And this is a hopefully a conversation starter for you and your spouse. |
| 0:14.0 | My wife and I, I'm really head over heels in love with you. |
| 0:18.9 | I want the whole world to know. |
| 0:21.7 | We would marry 20. Mike just randomly comes out with you. Imagine what you do. I want the whole world to know. We would marry 20. |
| 0:22.3 | It might just randomly comes out with words of love, you know, just whenever. |
| 0:26.2 | Just whatever it takes. |
| 0:29.4 | But we married for 22 some odd years and have 10 children. |
| 0:34.6 | And we're actually getting back to having kids from college come home. So we've |
| 0:40.3 | got kids from 4 to 21. Yes. Lots of kids in all different stages of adult kids who are, |
| 0:47.7 | like Mike just said, it's Christmas time now. And I don't know. Obviously, people listen to this |
| 0:52.7 | podcast a different time. It's actually Advent time. I'm sorry. It is Advent right now. I know. Sorry. I got my liturgical seasons messed up. So it is Advent right now. And so yeah. So it's kind of fun having kids. We have our first daughter who's out in going to Benedictine college is coming home. |
| 1:12.0 | So that's the, our other kids go to Franciscan, which is like five miles away. |
| 1:15.1 | So them coming home is still exciting, but it's a little different. |
| 1:18.0 | But having a child in Kansas coming home. |
| 1:21.1 | That's a huge celebration. |
| 1:22.8 | We're really, |
| 1:23.0 | we're all out the red carpet here. |
| 1:24.2 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:24.7 | It's so great to having your home. |
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