Christian Parenting.

Welcome to Pardon the Miss.

I'm your host, Courtney DeFaio, and on this podcast, we talk about raising kids as Christian parents.

It's so very important for me to honor God with my family and the two kids that he's given me.

But honestly, it's not always neat or easy or tidy,

but it's always worth it. So join us every week to laugh and learn together on this beautiful and

messy journey of parenting.

Hello, friends. So let me tell you about a time. There was a lollipop in Larson's diaper. Yes,

it's been a minute since she's had a lollipop and a diaper. But do y'all remember, and you're in those days, if you've got little kids, you're like, I will do anything to get through this target

or through this doctor's appointment. And so lollipops were off to know what I'm just like here. Take this. It'll distract her for like 12 whole seconds and then we'll get on with our day. But I think we were leaving a haircut place where she got a lollipop as a prize. And then she must have decided at some point in the car seat, she didn't want the lollipop. So she put it down. And somehow she must have had on bloomers or

something, but that lollipop found its way into the side of her diaper. So imagine that my surprise

later, when I'm changing her diaper and I'm like, literally how did a lollipop get in here? Like,

I just was frozen for a second. Like, did she just poop a lollipop? Like, what is happening? But I've figured out the story later.

But if you were in that moment where you're laughing right now, because you remember it,

or you're like, yep, I'm using lollipops myself. But this is an episode and actually two episodes,

we're breaking it up into two parts that I've been wanting to bring to you guys for a long time.

So if you've got babies in your life, or you've got toddlers or elementary

school kids, you may be feeling a lot of angst. I'm like, I want to raise them to do good things and to

obey their mom and dad, but I feel so lost. And I remember feeling that way. There's a lot of conflicting

information. There was maybe one school of thought that was very militant and very much like, let's punish our kids and

just, you know, make sure they know what's right and wrong. And then I think there's a culture of

people swinging way far to the other side that's like, well, let's just not do that. Let's just

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