FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Do you remember that old adage about why you have two ears and only one mouth? Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Well, here it is parents. The single best discipline strategy known to mankind. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

I'll never forget it. The first time I came home from work and my wife said, "Tag, you're it." Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

One sure sign of a mature person: grace under fire. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Does your marriage know what it means to share the Lord? Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Hey Ron, why do a lot of your books have the word Smart in the title? Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Want to speed up bonding in your stepfamily? Stop orchestrating togetherness and just let them simmer. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Ron, I just don't think I was cut out to be part of a stepfamily. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Ron, I just don’t think I was cut out to be part of a stepfamily. See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Sometimes "grasping for straws" is really grasping for control. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Sometimes “grasping for straws” is really grasping for control. See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Have you ever been on the outside looking in? Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Have you ever been on the outside looking in? See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Parenting a troubled child always begins with managing ourselves first. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

When our kids are troubled, it troubles us. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Exasperate is not a word we use much today. It means to provoke to anger. Hmmm. Who do you exasperate? Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Let's talk about how to live. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Do you really know how to live? Well the Bible tells us, more or less. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Does God's word have anything practical to say about how to live? Yeah, more or less. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Okay, imagine your parents are madly in love. And then one day you see one of your parents kissing someone else. What do you feel? Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Life poses many questions. And when painful things happen, our questions reveal a lot about us. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Life is a field trip. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Is your family walking the path of righteousness? Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Choosing what's best sometimes comes at a price. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

You know everybody's got burdens. When a burden is too much for you to bear, according to Galatians 6, I'm supposed to help. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy