MP 076: Anger in Parenting
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
~ Benjamin Franklin
We thought we were really nice people before we had kids. Our children can sometimes trigger anger that we didn't even realize was there, anger that can surprise us with its violence. To overcome unrighteous anger, we need to understand why we get angry (sometimes it's not unjustified!) and make a plan for how we are going to deal with it. This can be a difficult issue for many people because it takes humility to admit when we are wrong, and vulnerability to deal with our own brokenness.
Show Notes: Check out these resources.
- Book: Taming the Lion Within: 5 Steps from Anger to Peace by Dr. Rhonda Chervin
- Great article: How to Deal with Parental Anger by Dr. Sears
- Our podcast on The Courage to Correct Your Spouse
- Our podcast on Words Matter
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Messy Parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.0 | And this is a podcast dedicated to becoming more intentional on our parenting. |
| 0:14.2 | We are married for 23 some odd years, and we have 10 children. |
| 0:19.9 | We are far from experts, but we're sharing some of the |
| 0:23.5 | insights we've gained from our ups and downs and our messy life because parenting really isn't a |
| 0:29.3 | perfect science. It's a little messy. If you haven't already figured that out. That's right. |
| 0:33.5 | Anybody that's been a parent for longer than, I don't know, a week. |
| 0:38.4 | Has already figured out that the books can't tell you everything that you need to know. |
| 0:42.3 | Sometimes you just need somebody walking ahead of you to say, hey, yeah, there's, you might |
| 0:47.0 | not want to go that direction, you know, this was our experience or whatever. |
| 0:50.5 | But I'm really excited to do this podcast because I think it's an excellent topic. |
| 0:55.2 | It's a challenging topic. Yeah. For us as well as probably a lot of other people. |
| 0:58.7 | Yes, absolutely. And I feel like we have lots of friends in our podcast where we're meeting |
| 1:02.4 | more and more people who listen to this. So hello to all you people. Stop doesn't tell hello. |
| 1:08.1 | So I really feel like we're making a difference because, you know, I feel like there's more people out there listening. |
| 1:12.6 | So praise God. |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah, God is good. |
| 1:14.7 | So we started this podcast because of, I'm just doing this because I just, I don't know, why. |
| 1:20.9 | Nothing else to do. |
| 1:21.6 | That's right. |
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