Rock Solid Families

Parenting is a lot like farming. There are different seasons and in each season the farmer has specifically different roles and responsibilities in order to produce a bountiful crop.  Parenting also presents different seasons.  What a parent must do in season 1 is not necessarily going to happen in the seasons that follow.  The key is understanding what role must be covered and what it adds to the...

If you think you are doing this life alone, you are mistaken.  We are designed by God to be in relationship and work as many parts of one body.  Rock Solid Families thanks all of their supporters, partners, and donors that have allowed the vision to become a reality.  Let's keep it going!  Support the show #Rocksolidfamilies, #familytherapy,  #marriagecounseling,  #parenting,  #faithbasedcoun...

Spousal abuse is no small matter.  Research indicates that 1 in 4 marriages have a level of physical abuse, 1 in 3 have some form of abuse ranging from physical, emotion, psychological, or spiritual. these numbers are staggering when you consider how abuse wrecks the lives of everyone involved.   http://rocksolidfamilies.org Dr. David Clarke: Enough Is Enough: Leaving an Abusive Relationship -  Pa...

Dr. John Delony, noted author, speaker, and radio show host from Ramsey Solutions, joins Rock Solid Radio for an empowering show.  John is smart, well-spoken and as common as they come.  He doesn't let his 2 PhD's get in the way of speaking common sense to real people with real problems.   Check out his latest book: Own Your Past Change Your Future He can also be found at: https://www.ra...

What is freedom? It sounds like a fairly easy and straight forward question, but the reality of it is that is can be very complicated.  Listen in to this week's show as we celebrate Independence Day, July 4th, 2022.  We discuss freedom from a variety of perspectives and attempt to see how and what we need to teach about freedom to our children. http://rocksolidfamilies.org   Support the show...

What is the next step we as Christians need to take as Roe v Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022? http://rocksolidfamilies.org Support the show #Rocksolidfamilies, #familytherapy,  #marriagecounseling,  #parenting,  #faithbasedcounseling, #counseling, #Strongdads, #coaching, #lifecoach, #lifecoaching, #marriagecoaching, #marriageandfamily, #control, #security, #respect, #affe...

Does your anger get the best of you?  How about someone in your family?  What's behind that anger?  Check out this week's show to hear more about the conversation.  http://rocksolidfamiies.org Support the show #Rocksolidfamilies, #familytherapy,  #marriagecounseling,  #parenting,  #faithbasedcounseling, #counseling, #Strongdads, #coaching, #lifecoach, #lifecoaching, #marriagecoaching, #m...

Father's Day, 2022 - It's time we celebrate and encourage the dads in our lives.  Our culture is sick due to the void of healthy father figures in the home. If we want better, we must encourage and expect better from our dads. http://rocksolidfamilies.org Support the show #Rocksolidfamilies, #familytherapy,  #marriagecounseling,  #parenting,  #faithbasedcounseling, #counseling, #Strongda...

Being Christian is about loving people as Christ would love others.  It is about showing compassion and service to others.  It is also about choosing God's nature for mankind over man's nature for mankind.  This sounds easy until you find yourself in conflict with God's nature.   The topic of Gay pride is becoming bigger and bigger with each passing year.  We now have the month of J...

This show airs one week after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.  Yet another tragic story in the moral decline of the United States.  We look around and wonder, "why?"  Then we begin to seek answers.  We are waiting for some incredibly smart person to come up with the greatest idea, law, or proclamation that will end the evil.  Yet, to this point, we are empty handed.  At the risk of...

What are you doing this summer?  Do you have your kids busy and attending camps and activities?  Or, are you kids going to be spending a lot of time sleeping in, watching television and playing video games?   These are the kinds of questions that every family will encounter once the kids get out of school for summer.  Somewhere in the middle of these questions is a happy medium of work, fun, and r...

Mental health has been slow to get the attention that so many other bodily health systems receive. We have regular check-ups to our dentist, dermatologist, hair salon, and general practitioner, but what about mental health?  When was the last time you went for a check up for your mental health?   Mental health has shown its importance more in the past couple of years than ever before in recent his...

Church hurt is a very real thing.  At one point or another most all of us can think of a time in which someone in our church or the direction of the church hurt us.  This can be devastating as we often give the church such permission to be part of our lives.   During this show, Linda and Merrill discuss church hurt and how we can, one, prevent it, two, heal from it.  This may be a difficult topic...

Many people are in a position to give others advice.  Whether a parent, teacher, coach, or boss, but that doesn't mean we are always ready to receive this well-intended advice.  In fact, many times when people are offering advice, we are quick to turn them off.  We don't see it as giving advice as we might see it as meddling in our business.  We often can feel like well- meaning people c...

In this day of throw away and replace we have found it more and more difficult to stick with things when they are not working well.  We quit on our jobs, our friendships, our fitness, our faith, and even our marriages.  We have the screaming of instant gratification yelling at every cell in our body. The question might be, "Should I ever give up? If so, when?"  This can be a very difficu...

When something is brand new does that make it better than something that is old?  At first thought we might think yes, but the older we get the more often we see that just because something is new does not mean it is better.  In today's show we get to learn more about this idea through one of the most notable parenting experts of our times.  During this show John Rosemond joins us to share hi...

Most of us would look at a mouse in our house as an undesirable thing.  We may think of him as an unwelcome intruder.  Besides just being a little creepy, he could cause damage, make a mess, and worst of all, help make many more mice that could intrude into your house.  It's hard to imagine that many of us would intentionally allow the mouse in our house with an open invite.  Something about...

How often do you find yourself frustrated or anxious about things not going to plan?  Either the timing, the process, or the outcome, are not what you expected.  This is part of the human condition.  It is experienced by every thinking human on earth.  "Why aren't things going my way?"  In this show Linda and Merrill talk about how this has been such a big part of their life.  How i...

When working with families we often see similar patterns that produce the good outcomes and those that produce the not so good outcomes.  When you work long enough in this field you can begin to make predictions of future outcomes based on current behavior patterns.  That doesn't make us a prophet, it just makes us aware of the simple concept of cause and effect.   In this show, Linda and Mer...

Are you feeling exhausted or overwhelmed?  Are you losing sight of the things that you say truly matter to you? You are not alone. Our culture has sold us many different things, but one of the most dangerous is that of being overly busy.  At times it's as if we wear it as a badge of honor.  "He everybody, look how busy I am."  We allow our work schedules, kids' schedules, and e...

What's on your bucket list?  What motivate's you and drives you to wake up and live another day?  Do you live for the weekends, or vacations?  How about the idea of a great journey or project, maybe even a particular experience in your life?  These are sometimes referred to as your dreams.  Why should we have them and what happens when we aren't having them? Dreams or visions for yo...

Alisa Childers is no stranger to talking and singer about her faith.  Alisa began her career as a singer in the Christian band, Zoe Girl. From there she led worship in church while raising her kids and being a wife.  But when Covid came and many churches stop holding public worship, Alisa began talking and writing about her faith walk.   Now, Alisa is the host of her own Alisa Childers Podcast and...

It's everywhere!  Everywhere we seem to turn technology is putting a new spin on our way of life.  So much of it is amazing as it makes our life more efficient and many tasks much faster.  However, we have discovered that all of the good comes at a cost.  Not just a financial cost, but a cost to many other areas of life.   During this show, Merrill and Linda confess their challenge of using t...

Do you have a perfect practice of staying connected to Christ?  I know I don't.  Just like I do not have a perfect practice of exercise and diet.  I know many of the things I should do, but the fact is, I don't always do the right things.  And, if I have to be honest, consistency is always a struggle for me.   Let's take this conversation out of the gym and into our relationship wit...

Linda and Merrill are excited as they take the opportunity to introduce their new online marriage coaching program, Rock Solid Marriages!  In this show they discuss why they felt the need to create the program. What the foundation for the program is.  And how every couple can rebuild and restore their marriage.  The "Why" for the program is simple; broken marriages lead to hurting people...