Best of 2022: Cynthia Yanof’s Playground Rules for Parenting
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
As we wrap up 2022, I’m finishing the year the same way I started it by sharing a few of the things I wish I had known as a younger mom.
I try not to live with regrets, but I also know the value that comes by taking inventory in our parenting and acknowledging the areas of growth as well as the struggles.The four things I’m sharing with you today began with an article I wrote several years ago from the perspective of “the oldest mom on the playground.” Since then, I’ve had opportunities to share these parenting truths to various groups, and the Lord has given me even greater clarity that I pray will encourage and challenge you.
I have no doubt that your social media feeds (like mine) are packed with all kinds of weight loss and exercise challenges for a physically healthier 2023. But I would also encourage you to avoid “back-burnering” (assuming that’s a word) your parenting and instead take this week to consider what’s working, what’s not, where you might need to be encouraged, and where you need to encourage others. I’ll start us off with today’s podcast on the four things I would tell my younger parenting self.
I would be so grateful if you would not only take a minute to listen, but then also share it with the other parents you’re walking alongside with each day.
P.S. As we wrap up this year, I’m praying that Pardon the Mess will reach more and more parents. One way you can help us do this is to leave a review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. It would be a great blessing if you could take just a minute and do that for me today! So grateful 💕
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | This is Cynthia Yanov, and you're listening to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.1 | 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 |
| 0:26.1 | the parenting road alone. Hey guys, welcome to Pardon the Mess. I am glad you're here for our |
| 0:35.0 | very last show of 2022. And if you're listening to this between Christmas and New Year's, I can only assume that you are hiding in your car or maybe you are like laying underneath your bed where no one can find you. Maybe you've been covered up in old Christmas wrapping paper. I don't know. But we've all been through this. We've had an amazing Christmas, all the fun of it. And it's a few days after. |
| 0:55.2 | And now we're realizing, ooh, that was a little traumatic opening presents with the |
| 0:58.7 | little ones who don't say thank you and rip through everything. |
| 1:02.2 | Or your teenagers who are under-impressed or maybe mothers-in-laws or fathers-in-laws or bosses |
| 1:07.5 | that are hard to buy for, all the things. |
| 1:09.7 | And so I hope that you had lots of funny |
| 1:12.1 | memories. I hope that you have lots of places where you were able to see the Lord be really |
| 1:17.3 | true and near to you and your family. And then as we go into a new year, I just want us to start |
| 1:22.4 | thinking about what are the anchors we're going to hold to this next year. What are we going to |
| 1:26.1 | hold to in our parenting? What are the things we want to be about? Because we live in a world that is so persuasive and a world |
| 1:31.0 | that is so opinionated. And if we don't form those anchors in parenting, the world will want to |
| 1:35.3 | form them for us. And so the very first episode of 2022 that I released was just an episode of me |
| 1:42.0 | talking about the things I've learned in parenting, |
| 1:45.1 | four rules from the oldest mom on the playground. |
| 1:47.5 | And I wrote a blog about that that ended up on the Today Show website and scary mommy |
| 1:52.7 | and all these fun places. |
| 1:54.0 | And I've spoken on this a lot. |
| 1:55.8 | And I started 2022 with this podcast and I'm replaying it today for all of us. |
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