The Parental Unity Rules Part 4
Well-intentioned, good-hearted parents disagree sometimes. But what do you do if one of you has already taken action? What you don't do is make critical comments in front of the kids about how the other handled it. Or even worse, reverse the decision. Instead have a parent meeting behind closed doors, and listen. Find out why they did what they did. Then share your thoughts about what might happen next time. Parenting is a live-and-learn experience. Just make sure you live and learn together.
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Well-intentioned, good-hearted parents disagree sometimes. But what do you do if one of you has already taken action? What you don't do is make critical comments in front of the kids about how the other handled it. Or even worse, reverse the decision. Instead have a parent meeting behind closed doors, and listen. Find out why they did what they did. Then share your thoughts about what might happen next time. Parenting is a live-and-learn experience. Just make sure you live and learn together.
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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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How do you maintain parental unity when you disagree?
Ron: How do you maintain parental unity when you disagree?
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: Nan and I have disagreed many times about how to best parent our children. It seems that well-intentioned, good-hearted parents just see it differently sometimes. But what do you do if one of you has already taken action?
Well, what you don’t do is make critical comments in front of the kids about how the other handled it. Or even worse, reverse the decision. Either one of those just undercuts the other person’s authority. So instead, have a parent meeting behind closed doors, and listen. Find out why they did what they did. Then if necessary share your thoughts about what might happen next time. Hey, parenting is a live-and-learn experience. Just make sure you live and learn together. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.
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