how do we nurture children through their upset
make joy normal: Catholics in the new springtime
send us a text via Fan Mail! What do we DO with intense children? Can they just cry, what does it look like to walk a child through difficult emotions? We spend so much time in our day managing behaviour, managing emotions and managing our own responses. Can we make is smoother along the way? 4:37 - Should I let my child cry it out? 6:02 - Letting them have distress while nurturing them 11:24 - Learning how to reduce the stimuli in a child's life 15...
About Podcast
The Church is experiencing a profound renewal — a new springtime of faith. But what does that look like in your home? In your parish? In your daily life?
We are living in a time of tremendous opportunity for renewal: a new springtime. As Catholics, we aren't called to retreat from the world, but to become leaven within it—to live so fully in the joy and freedom of the Gospel that our lives might become an invitation.
Let's explore what it means to live as an authentic Catholic family in our time: the beauty of the Faith, the reality of raising children in Christ, the struggles and triumphs of Catholic life, and how ordinary families become instruments of the New Evangelization. From marriage and parenthood to education and community, let's look at how joy—rooted in Christ and His Church—might become the normal rhythm of Catholic life.
Let's usher in the New Springtime Pope John Paul II proclaimed. Catholic family life doesn't have to look perfect to be beautiful. The world doesn't need more noise. It needs to see Catholics living with conviction, charity, and contagious joy.
Let's make joy normal.