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Too Much of a Good Thing (Proverbs 25)

with Ron Deal | October 8, 2024
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Too much of a good thing, can make you sick.

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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

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Too Much of a Good Thing (Proverbs 25)

With Ron Deal
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October 08, 2024
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Ron: Too much of a good thing, can make you sick.

Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.

Ron: Now here’s the thing parents, you’re a good thing. The Bible in Proverbs 25 tells us that eating too much honey will make you vomit and spending too much time at a neighbor’s house will make them hate you. The same thing is true in parenting. Hovering parents, who control their child’s choices, force feed themselves to their children even as the kids grow up and the kids get sick of it. Sometimes well-intentioned stepparents do this, too. They try too hard to win a child’s affections.

Back up a bit. Give strategic doses of yourself to a teenager, young adult, or a stepchild. Give them some space, and I think you’ll find your influence tastes good. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.

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