MP 094: The Myth of the Play Date

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

🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

"When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions it is up to us to share our calm, not join in the chaos"

You are at a friend's house for dinner with your kids. The 3 and 5 yr old are playing on the floor. Each has a toy, but then one child decides that he wants what his friend has. Chaos ensues. What are parents to do? How do you deal with your child? What do you say to the little friend? How do you manage this with your hosts? This is a sticky situation that many parents run into - how can you have peace between little kids visiting together? We talk about this and give some realistic expectations on little kids play and social interactions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the messy, wait.
0:05.8	You're supposed to say, welcome to the messy, messy,
0:09.0	welcome to messy parenting.
0:11.7	This is Catholic conversations on marriage and family.
0:15.6	I'm Mike Hernan.
0:16.8	I'm Alicia Hernan, and we're changing our name.
0:19.1	Yeah, sorry.
0:21.1	Sorry to throw you all off there.
0:22.6	It's really us, I promise.
0:23.8	Yeah, three and a half years we've been doing this podcast under this name.
0:28.4	But I think some of you might have heard from our last two podcasts, we are launching out into a full-time ministry here.
0:35.4	And we wanted to share with you the new name of our organization, our 501C3.
0:41.7	Maybe I can put a drum in the background.
0:42.9	I know.
0:44.8	The new organizational name that really speaks more to our fuller mission that we're going to do is
0:51.2	called the messy family project.
0:53.9	You know, we really think that our lives are still messy because we're parents, right?
0:59.0	But we want to encompass how do we address the whole family in some ways.
1:03.1	That's right.
1:03.5	Even aunts or uncles, grandparents, like, how do we support family life?
1:08.4	That's our goal is to really make vibrant Catholic families.
1:13.0	And it's a project, right?
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