Business Meeting
Parents it may be time for a business meeting. No doubt lots of parenting takes place on the fly. I'll be honest. We're pretty much making it up as we go, right? Which is why we need to slow down.
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Ron Deal
Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.
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Ron Deal
Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and ...more
Parents it may be time for a business meeting. No doubt lots of parenting takes place on the fly. I’ll be honest. We’re pretty much making it up as we go, right? Which is why we need to slow down.
Ron: Parents it may be time for a business meeting.
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: There’s no doubt lots of parenting takes place on the fly. I’ll be honest. We’re pretty much making it up as we go, right? Which is why we need to slow down. We have to get proactive with a planned time to discuss our parenting strategies. Call it a business meeting if you’d like, but you need to do it. I also recommend that co-parents do the same thing.
You can address visitation schedules and report cards and discipline strategies and spiritual development. What you don’t discuss is your personal life or old issues, because this is a parenting meeting not a personal one. Drawing the line between those two things is very important, but if you can do it, your kids win. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.
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