Christian Parenting

This is Cynthia Yannoff and you're listening to Pardon the Mess.

Each week we have honest discussions about the ups and downs of parenting and the lessons God is teaching us along the way. It's real, it's fun, and it's biblical. Life is messy. Don't walk

the parenting road alone. Hey guys, welcome to Pardon the Mess. I'm glad you're here. This

week we are talking about addiction in our kids. And let me be the first

to say there ain't a one of us that really wants to think about that and talk about addiction.

But it is so important and so necessary. And so just thank you for tuning in as we talk about

this important topic. And we're doing it because it's Red Ribbon Week this week. And so

if you have kids in public school in particular, they do Red Ribbon Week.

And so here's my moderately funny Red Ribbon story of when my first child.

Now, mind you, it's first child, right?

And so maybe y'all are, maybe you aren't with your first children.

You tend to be kind of hypersensitive about things.

And so she was going to the local public school.

And she was five in

kindergarten. And she came home, you know, a month or two in around October with, um, her bracelet on for

red ribbon week that they had given her. And it said say no to drugs. And I was so outraged. I literally was

calling my friends. I'm like, what in the world? I've spent five years protecting this child and I sent her to

school for six weeks and they're talking about drugs. And now I look back. I'm like, sister, that is a little

too much gas. We need some more breaks. Slow it down because drugs, it's a real issue. And, you know,

starting to talk about it early is not a bad thing. So there you have it. That was my red ribbon outrage when

my first went through. And I'm glad we're talking about it now because it's so important.

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