Helping your kids with their emotions is a critical life skill, yet we often don’t equip kids with these valuable skills. Ron Deal speaks with Michelle Nietert, LPC, about common feelings kids in blended families experience and how parents can help.
High-conflict co-parenting is a common struggle in blended families. Ron Deal speaks with Diane Dierks & Rick Voyles on how to improve co-parenting conflict as you prioritize what you're fighting for, change your response, & consider your kids first.
Moving can be one of the most challenging situations a family can go through. Here are five tips we’ve learned through our family moving.
Roles in traditional homes grow with the family. But in stepfamilies, it's not always clear how everything should work.
4 easy weeks of back-to-school prayers They’re heading back to school–but you’ve got hopes to educate more than their brains. How will this year shape your kids’ hearts? Feed your kids’ souls with the simple structure of short, daily, back-to-school prayers while they’re zipping up a backpack or searching for the other shoe. Our free […]
Wondering what you’d even tell your kids to do if you managed to pry their devices away? Here are four tips to get your kids to play outside.
If you’re a father, you are of greater importance to your child than you know. Here are six roles of a father you may not have realized.
As a single mom, you may never find the perfect work-life balance, but you can be free from the burden of trying to do it all.
We all desire to teach our children to be better siblings, friends, and someday, adults. But how do we raise compassionate kids?
If trends continue, by 2050, 35 million youth may undergo deconversion. How can we help prevent a crisis of faith in our kids?
What are key stepping stones every stepfamily needs that will lead to healthy relationship building? Ron Deal and Gayla Grace discuss how perseverance, flexibility, commitment, Christ-likeness and other core attributes work together to create familyness.
Want to be the spiritual leader of your family but don’t know where to start? Here are seven essentials for leading well.
What rules, principles, or contracts should you make with smartphones and your child? David Eaton, author of Smartphone Sanity, talks with Ron Deal about 8 major concerns to consider to keep smartphones from invading your home and hijacking your child.
Parents face devastating loss when alienated from their children due to a former spouse. But there is hope for redemption! Dr. Richard Marks shares his story with Ron Deal of re-connecting with his mom as an adult and enjoying a thriving relationship with her.
These ideas will help you develop deeper relationships with your children despite a hectic schedule.
Your relationship with your college kid may change as they grow. So here are five things they may need on Christmas break.
As parents and stepparents, we want to raise our kids well, but we often feel inadequate. In this episode, Ron Deal talks with Ginger Hubbard about parenting the heart of our children and motivating them to become God-pleasers, not people-pleasers.
When my wife was pregnant, I was excited about being a new dad. But balancing fatherhood and marriage was a challenge I needed help with.
Our bonus episode offers another question and answer format with Ron Deal and Gayla Grace to address those hard-to-navigate circumstances in your blended family with solutions that offer nuggets of wisdom and practical suggestions.
I love family vacations. But when seven of us are in the minivan, sinful natures threaten family fun. Relate? Here are three reminders.
Do you have stepfamily questions for the experts? We have answers! Listen to Ron Deal and Gayla Grace address everyday issues that our listeners have asked with practical answers.
Do you struggle to find unity as a couple or need help setting boundaries with an ex-spouse? Maybe you want a few tips on navigating the teen years with your stepdaughters. Listen to Ron Deal's conversation with Kirk McGregor on these common topics & more.
Veteran stepcouples have a wealth of knowledge on best practices for stepfamilies. Listen to Ron Deal's conversation with Sandi Patty and Don Peslis, married in 1995 with a blended family of 8 children, on wise solutions to common issues stepfamilies face.
Do you need help growing unity and character in your stepfamily? Our convenient online course, Well-Blended, can help! Listen to Ron Deal and Dave & Ann Wilson talk about how it can help you build robust, resilient relationships in your unique stepfamily.
We can’t control who our kids marry, but there are things we can do to steer them in a godly direction before the engagement announcement.
It can be tough to connect with a child who’s different from you in their interests, passions, even their core. How can you close the gap?
I want to be open in talking to my kids about Ukraine, but how do I explain something to my kids that I can’t wrap my own head around?
Parents want their kids to have qualities like love, joy, and patience, but is it possible to teach the fruit of the Spirit? Where should we start?
You want: kids with spiritual life skills that last. You have: kids you just want to pick up their cereal bowls. We’ve got a devotional just for families like yours. We get how skeptical you are of shoehorning more into days filled with carpools and just trying to get your kids to hang up their […]
How can we squirrel away spiritual life skills for kids that make them want to connect with God? It could be easier than you think.
