Standing Up for Kids
We'll fly around the world to aid children suffering from war or poverty, but we'll do nothing when it's a kid across the street. Rarely will Christians speak up for someone else's child caught in ongoing battles between their homes. We don't want to get into their business but we should do something. Respectfully, but assertively ask a parent who bad-mouths the other home and puts their child in the middle as a spy to stop. If it's about a child, it's not just their business, it's ours.
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About the Guest
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We'll fly around the world to aid children suffering from war or poverty, but we'll do nothing when it's a kid across the street. Rarely will Christians speak up for someone else's child caught in ongoing battles between their homes. We don't want to get into their business but we should do something. Respectfully, but assertively ask a parent who bad-mouths the other home and puts their child in the middle as a spy to stop. If it's about a child, it's not just their business, it's ours.
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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
Are you standing up for the kid right next to you?
Ron: Are you standing up…for the kid right next to you?
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Ron: You know it’s funny. We’ll get on airplanes and fly around the world to stand up for children suffering from war or poverty, but we’ll stand back and do nothing when it’s a kid across the street. Rarely, for example, will Christians speak up for someone else’s child caught in ongoing battles between their homes.
I get it; we don’t want to “get into their business” or “step in where we don’t belong,” but I believe we should do something. Respectfully, but assertively ask a parent who is bad-mouthing the other home and putting their child in the middle as a spy to stop. If it’s about a child, it’s not just “their business,” it’s ours. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.
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