Step in Line
Sarah had come to realize that parenting dramatically affects a stepfamily marriage. One key for stepfamilies is to step in line. A line dance is when many people stand beside each other and do the same steps. In blended families, all the adults, sometimes across many homes, need to coordinate their parenting in order to bring harmony to the parenting process. This helps kids but it also helps couples have a stronger marriage. Cooperation isn't easy but everything gets better when it happens.
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About the Guest
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Sarah had come to realize that parenting dramatically affects a stepfamily marriage. One key for stepfamilies is to step in line. A line dance is when many people stand beside each other and do the same steps. In blended families, all the adults, sometimes across many homes, need to coordinate their parenting in order to bring harmony to the parenting process. This helps kids but it also helps couples have a stronger marriage. Cooperation isn't easy but everything gets better when it happens.
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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
Ron, our marriage is great. It would be wonderful if it was just the two of us but it’s not.
Ron: “Ron, our marriage is great. It would be wonderful if it was just the two of us but it’s not.”
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: Sarah had come to realize an important truth about her family. Parenting dramatically affects a stepfamily marriage. One of the key steps for stepfamilies is step in line. You know, a line dance is when a number of people stand beside each other and do the same steps.
Well, in blended families, all the adults, sometimes across many homes, need to coordinate their parenting as much as they can in order to bring harmony to the parenting process. This helps kids but it also helps couples have a stronger marriage. No, cooperation isn’t easy. But everything gets better when it happens. So, step in line. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.
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