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 us. I'm glad that you're with us today.

Before we kick off our talk with

Sean McDow, I want to tell you a little story of something that happened to me recently.

Let's just all keep it real in parenting. That's why it's called Pardon the Mess.

I was driving with my five-year-old in the car last week and someone called to ask me some parenting

advice. And so the question they asked, believe

or not, I actually felt like I had a decent answer. And I was really going to town, giving my very

best advice. I mean, I even pulled out some scripture. I was really making it happen in the car.

And in the back seat, my five-year-old is like trying to get my attention to wave me down and

everything else. And he keeps interrupting me. And get my attention to wave me down and everything else.

And he keeps interrupting me. And I'm doing that kind of snap and be quiet, you know, motion,

giving him the stink eye in the rear view mirror. Like, be quiet. You can be quiet for a minute.

I'm talking to someone. And finally, I realize he's trying to tell me something. He's kind

of slightly making that international choking sign, you know,

where you put your hand, like, towards your neck. So I stop for just a minute and my friend,

I say, can you hang on one minute? And turns out my five-year-old had swallowed a marble in the car.

I'm like, really? Are we serious here? So I tell my friend, I'll have to call you back. This is the end of my

parenting advice at the moment. What's even funnier about the marble he swallowed was that I have

been working on some obedience issues with this particular child all summer. And one of my friends

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