MP 098: Parenting as a Team
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Raising children is beautiful but also hard work. It's a task for unselfish, devoted parents. ~ Archbishop Chaput
Parenting is not for cowards, that is for sure! Thankfully, God gives children two parents who, when they work together, can provide the best environment for their child. But working together can be tough. Spouses come from different backgrounds, have different personalities, virtues, and vices. All of this needs to be worked through to get in sync with each other. Presenting a united front to your children is not only good for them, its good for you and your marriage as well. Listen in as we give some tips on how to parent together with respect, unity, and God's grace.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the messy family podcast. I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Alicia Hernan. And for those you've never heard our podcast before, this is a Catholic |
| 0:12.3 | conversation on marriage and family. I thought you're going to say for those who haven't |
| 0:15.7 | heard our podcast before, you are in for a street because we're awesome. Where have you been? |
| 0:22.7 | What are you been doing, welcome um no it's great to have you uh join us here and um i feel like it's just been very busy |
| 0:29.6 | um you know we're we're launching a new ministry we're taking a podcast into a whole uh non-profit 501 |
| 0:36.2 | C3 rebuilding our website but we're also busy times |
| 0:40.7 | for family and travel and celebrating my dad's 80th birthday, which is pretty crazy. |
| 0:47.4 | Absolutely. |
| 0:48.2 | I feel like we've had guests almost every weekend. |
| 0:51.5 | Yeah, at our house, not on the podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | Yes, not on the podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | Sorry, sorry. No, in our home, not on the podcast. Yes, not on the podcast. |
| 0:54.7 | Sorry, sorry. |
| 0:58.1 | No, in our home, family guests, which we love having people visit. |
| 1:02.3 | It's just a real gift to have such a wonderful family. |
| 1:02.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, so we've been very busy. |
| 1:10.4 | One of the things that was great, we had a chance to speak at West Point at a family life forum. And so we had a number of talks that we gave to the faculty and the officers. |
| 1:17.4 | Shout out to Chris and Adriana Corpola, who hosted us, basically, who got longtime listeners and patrons who got us there, and it was wonderful. |
| 1:27.8 | It was so much fun. |
| 1:28.9 | And really, it was, one, it's a beautiful campus. |
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