Stop parenting in your own strength with Jeannie Cunnion
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeannie Cunnion and I talk about how often we try to parent in our own strength. We discuss how our relationship with the Holy Spirit can change the game of parenting and why this idea feels super spiritual or super strange.
Jeannie encourages us to access this unbelievable power and learn how to recognize God’s voice in this way. We can feel like we have to earn this level of faith, but Jeannie reminds us how available the Holy Spirit is - and challenges us to lean in and be active in this relationship. From that place, we can know that we are parenting in God’s strength not our own.
We also have some fun comparing her boy world (mother of 5 boys) versus my girl world. She’s basically a frat mom.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Welcome to Pardon the Mess. I'm your host, Courtney Defeo. As parents, we know raising kids is the |
| 0:19.5 | opposite of neat and tidy. Each day brings |
| 0:22.2 | wins, losses, and valuable lessons. I pray that every time you're here, we will grow and learn, |
| 0:27.7 | maybe even laugh and cry together in the midst of our beautiful mess. |
| 0:35.8 | Well, hello, everyone. I hope you're having a great summer and maybe you've gotten a little ice cream, a little |
| 0:42.6 | popsicle, a little time in the sun, or maybe you've done none of that. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm not sure, but for some reason, I feel like we need to talk about music before we introduce |
| 0:51.2 | our guest. |
| 0:52.3 | I was thinking the other day about just the power of music and |
| 0:56.1 | it doesn't always have to be praise and worship. My girls are into the 60s lately and their father, |
| 1:01.9 | Ron Defeo is in a band and so he gets them into some rock and roll, but it can change the mood of |
| 1:07.5 | your house, your car, your cleanup environment, maybe after dinner so quickly. |
| 1:12.7 | So don't forget you have that at your fingertips, whether you use Spotify or Apple |
| 1:16.5 | music or your computer, just pull up some tunes. |
| 1:19.9 | And it really does change the dynamic of the entire house. |
| 1:22.7 | And I like to do that when I'm in a real crappy mood. |
| 1:25.9 | And I'm sure some of you can relate. |
| 1:27.3 | You just get down in |
| 1:28.1 | the dumps or you get stressed and you need something to snap you out of it. I talk about my first book, |
| 1:32.6 | how we're the chief mood officer. And that is so true. Oftentimes, the mom's mood can kind of |
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