MP 090: Teaching Your Children Self-control
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
"Emotions are like children. You shouldn't lock them in the trunk, but you don't want them driving the car either"
Have you ever had a child melt down because they didn't get what they wanted? How do we respond to emotional outbursts in our children? Self control is an under appreciated virtue in our modern culture, but ironically, it is the one skill we can teach our children that can help them achieve great success. Instead of embracing the maxim of today, "Just do it!" we should be echoing the slogan of the 80's anti-drug campaign which was "Just say no!". Our children need to learn from a young age that they CAN be in charge of how they react to their emotions, but they need your guidance and help to do this. In this podcast we give some tips and tricks on how to speak to your child and put them in the driver's seat of life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Alicia Hernan. And this is our 90th podcast. So thanks for joining in. Maybe you're just jumping in here or you've been through a ton of them shows before this. |
| 0:21.1 | A lot of podcasts. Thanks for being here. Yeah, I actually can't believe that we've had that many |
| 0:25.9 | topics. But you know what's crazy is that there are so many topics that we still want to talk about. |
| 0:29.7 | We have a long list. So we are. So I don't think that we're going to be stopping anytime soon. |
| 0:33.7 | So we just got back from an awesome trip to Denver, Colorado. |
| 0:39.2 | Yep. |
| 0:39.5 | And we were invited out to do a talk for a group out there in Denver, and it was awesome. |
| 0:46.3 | Yes, it was sponsored by there is a group of men who meet called Patriarchs. |
| 0:51.8 | Right. |
| 0:52.1 | And so they have started by the servants of Christ Jesus, religious community out there. |
| 0:56.7 | Yes. |
| 0:57.5 | And so a bunch of these groups got together to do a prom, like our big celebration, a dinner and |
| 1:03.6 | dancing and everything for all of the couples. |
| 1:06.6 | And I sucked at dancing. |
| 1:08.0 | That's not true. |
| 1:09.1 | That's not true. |
| 1:09.7 | I am. |
| 1:10.7 | They had a little dance instruction going and it was fun. |
| 1:14.6 | It was. |
| 1:15.1 | It was a ton of fun, but it was great to see. |
| 1:16.9 | You know, one, hopefully the talk was somewhat encouraging. |
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