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FamilyLife Today®

Parenting an Angry Child in Your Stepfamily

FamilyLife Today®

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How do you help a lost or angry child who battles against the family? Ron Deal speaks with psychologist Danny Huerta on troubled kids in a stepfamily.

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0:00.0

Give your self grace, but pause and try to notice.

0:03.7

Put pause buttons all over your house.

0:05.8

And that'll just remind you,

0:07.3

oh, I just need to look at my child's face.

0:09.4

I need to look in their eyes.

0:11.0

I need to visit their city.

0:12.4

I can't just be focused on my own city.

0:15.0

I gotta go into their city and see what's going on.

0:17.6

Welcome to Family Life Today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter

0:32.1

most.

0:33.1

I'm Ann Wilson.

0:34.1

And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our Family Life

0:39.1

app.

0:40.1

This is Family Life.

0:41.1

Today.

0:47.6

I can't imagine what my stepmom was probably thinking of me when she married my dad and

0:58.6

now she has a son, you know me, and I was not happy.

1:02.6

You were not happy.

1:03.6

No, I wasn't happy about the arrangement.

1:05.7

She was an incredible woman, but initially I didn't want her in my life, and so it

1:12.2

became a difficult transition for all of us.

1:15.2

So I think that's pretty common for most blended families, and we're going to talk about

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