Internalized Attack (Proverbs 12:18)
When you attack your kids other parent watch out. Your kids may feel attacked, too.
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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
When you attack your kids other parent watch out. Your kids may feel attacked, too.
Ron: When you attack your kids other parent watch out. Your kids may feel attacked, too.
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: Okay, that psychological truth is pretty sobering to me. Because I’ve been angry with my wife, and I’ve said things in front of our kids that I later realized hurt them, too. Here’s the thing. Kids inherently know they are partly us so when one parent says, “Your father is late again. He’s so irresponsible.” The child thinks, “Well, sometimes I’m late so I must be irresponsible, and I must be a disappointment to my mom.”
Now, when kids are living between divorced parents their vulnerability to this dynamic goes up considerably. Proverbs says, “The words of the reckless pierce like swords.” Be careful what you say or you may pierce the innocent.
For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.
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