Remarried? Here’s What Your Kids Need: Ron Deal and Rod & Rachel Faulkner Brown
FamilyLife Today®
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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What's it like for a child when their parent remarries? Explore the unique losses and needs of children in blended families in this important conversation with Ron Deal and Rod and Rachel Faulkner Brown.
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| 0:00.0 | You can try to talk to both little parts of their heart, something like, you know what, if I were you, I get it. I can see how calling me dad just feels weird. And if you need a break from that that's okay so you give |
| 0:14.8 | permission to that child needing to use a different term and then you try to |
| 0:19.7 | talk to the other half of the heart and say but I want you to know that I love you like crazy and |
| 0:25.7 | this doesn't affect our relationship. Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. |
| 0:42.0 | You can find us at family life today.com. |
| 0:44.9 | This is family life today. |
| 0:47.1 | Okay, Dave, did you know this? I probably didn't. The blended family |
| 0:58.6 | ministry at Family Life teaches that no one in a step family has had more loss than the children. |
| 1:06.2 | Oh, that has to be true. |
| 1:08.6 | And I know Rondale says the problem is that often the adults, the parents and the step parent, are unaware of what the kids are going through. |
| 1:17.5 | I know my dad and my stepmom had no idea what I was going through. |
| 1:21.5 | So they missed the chance to help them you |
| 1:25.0 | know the kids with their grief and I get it too because the parents are going |
| 1:28.3 | through a lot of trauma anyway and you know who else doesn't get this is church |
| 1:32.3 | leaders oh yeah and that's one of the |
| 1:34.8 | reasons we put on the premier blended family ministry conference for church |
| 1:39.2 | leaders the summit on step family ministry is our annual event for church leaders and lay couples. |
| 1:46.5 | October 10th and 11th, 2024, it's going to be in Dallas this year. |
| 1:50.9 | We'd love for you, someone in your church to come and you can check |
| 1:55.0 | the show notes or go to summit on stepfamilies.com to learn more about it. |
| 2:00.1 | Okay so yesterday we started listening to this great conversation between Ron and |
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