MP 071: Enjoying your Toddler

Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family

Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family

Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Kids & Family

4.9 • 841 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

"You can learn many things from toddlers! For example, how much patience you actually have."
~Anonymous

One blessing of having ten kids is that we have matured and learned enough about kids to appreciate the toddler years of children #9 and 10 much more than those years with children #1 and 2. Our advice to parents of toddlers is to start by enjoying them! It's hard to do when they are destroying your house and embarrassing you in public, but with a few strategies and consistency on your part, you can begin to see that this little bundle of creative energy has been amazingly designed by the Divine Creator. It's all part of His plan to get this child to adulthood and independence, and to get you to heaven!

Notes:

The Absorbent Mind (Montessori book)
Articles on toddlers from Focus on the Family (Christian website)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family.
0:07.6	I'm Mike Hernan.
0:08.4	I'm Alicia Hernan.
0:09.3	And hey, if you haven't heard our voices in a while, we apologize.
0:12.1	We're back.
0:13.0	Yes, whether you like it or not.
0:15.8	We must like it or else they wouldn't play the podcast.
0:18.5	True, true, true, true, true.
0:21.5	Well, we have been actually on a pilgrimage for a little, about two weeks and then our lives
0:29.0	caught up with us.
0:30.1	So I apologize for not being here, but we were out of the country for two weeks, which was
0:34.8	awesome.
0:35.1	And we had the amazing experience of going to the Holy Land.
0:39.3	And now, normally, Mike says, the Holy Land is Ireland.
0:42.4	Now, we're not, we're not talking about the Irish Holy Land.
0:45.3	That's right.
0:45.7	That's right.
0:45.9	We're talking about the real Holy Land.
0:47.8	Well.
0:48.4	The, uh, religious Holy Land.
0:50.5	That's right.
0:51.9	So we were in, um, Jerusalem and Nazareth and Bethlehem and
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