Q&A with Larson DeFeo
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Merry Christmas to you all! I hope this is such a special week for your family to celebrate the birth of Jesus. What a thrill to interview my youngest daughter and give you a chance to get to know her better. I’m a little biased, but this girl is one special human. I love learning from her!
She gives her advice on friendships, ways to parent teens, importance of mentoring and much more. She also shares some practical tips from lash serum to our Nuuly obsession.
My favorite part is when she reminds us to offer grace to our kids. I needed this reminder that they need a break from the pressure and expectations. They need to know we will offer grace when they mess up.
Merry Christmas!!
Courtney
Chapters:
(00:00) Introduction and Background
(02:59) Beauty Tips and Favorites
(06:00) Fashion and Shopping Preferences
(08:55) Family Values and Relationships
(11:52) Advice for Middle Schoolers
(12:23) The Challenges of Junior Year
(13:03) Understanding Dyslexia and Learning Differences
(14:42) Sibling Relationships and Transitions
(16:57) College Aspirations and Pressures
(17:52) Faith Development Through Camp Experiences
(20:29) Maintaining Faith in Everyday Life
(23:19) The Importance of Mentorship and Role Models
(26:20) The Importance of Mentorship in Parenting
(27:50) Navigating High School: Advice for Parents
(32:06) Spiritual Growth and Personal Reflection
(34:00) Words of Wisdom for Moms and Teens
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:07.0 | Have I told you lately that I'm thankful for you? I really am. Thanks for being a faithful |
| 0:12.9 | listener of this podcast and showing up week after week. And since you're here every week, |
| 0:17.5 | you might already know that this show is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. Our mission at Christian Parenting is to help moms and dads like you |
| 0:25.6 | grow into the perfectly imperfect parents God created you to be so you can confidently |
| 0:30.5 | raise the next generation of culture-changing Christians. Through podcasts like this one, we meet |
| 0:36.0 | parents right where they are in the carpal |
| 0:37.9 | liner, on a walk, or while doing dishes. We help families grow in their faith through honest, |
| 0:43.5 | encouraging conversations that point people to Jesus. Christian parenting also creates, I don't |
| 0:48.4 | know if you know this, but we also create devotionals and prayer journals and digital guides, |
| 0:52.5 | all designed to strengthen families and keep |
| 0:54.7 | faith at the very center of everyday life. We are a donor-supported ministry, and we rely on |
| 1:00.4 | generous friends like you to keep this work going. So would you consider a year-end gift to |
| 1:05.0 | Christian parenting? Every gift, no matter the size, truly makes a difference. You can give your |
| 1:09.1 | best gift by December 31st to help us |
| 1:11.2 | reach and equip more parents like you at cbgiv.org. That's cpgiv.org. |
| 1:16.7 | Well, Merry Christmas. It's Courtney Defeo with Pardon the Mess. And I highly doubt you were listening to this podcast on Christmas Day. But maybe, maybe someone's on your nerves and you just went on a walk or you got a little time to yourself. But whenever you listen to this, I hope that you had a great Christmas season and talked about the birth of Jesus and had just a moment to celebrate that with your family. |
| 1:49.4 | But today we have on a super special guest, my second daughter, Larson, and I'm so proud of her. |
| 1:55.5 | She has worked really hard this junior year and was coming in right after finals to record this |
| 2:00.4 | with me. And you'll hear a lot of |
| 2:01.9 | her wisdom. And I'm just crazy about her, as you would imagine. But she is going to bring some |
| 2:08.2 | advice, just about friends, about parenting, teens, about handling pressure. And she really leaves |
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