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Parenting: Be Like the Highway Department

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If you're a parent or stepparent, you and the highway department, have a lot in common.

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  • If you're a parent or stepparent, you and the highway department, have a lot in common.

  • 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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Parenting: Be Like the Highway Department

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Ron: If you’re a parent or stepparent, you and the highway department, have a lot in common.

Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.

Ron: The freedom to drive does not mean you get to drive anywhere you want. That is determined by the highway department and a lot of other things. They pave a road and there are white lines and yellow lines. Sometimes there is only one lane and sometimes there are multiple lanes. That’s when you get to choose. They even put limits on how fast you should go.

Okay, good parenting is like being the highway department. We set the boundaries for our kids and teach them where and how fast they can drive. But within that, we also give them lots of choices. Now, here is the secret. The combination of freedom and boundaries, and a few tickets every now and then, makes for a well-trained driver. For FamilyLife Blended, I’m Ron Deal.

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