Rock Solid Families

In the final part of the How We Love series, Linda and Merrill discuss what the ultimate love looks like in the marriage.  This love has only been perfect through Jesus Christ. Being perfect as Christ was perfect is not something we can attain here on earth, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't be striving for it.   #Rocksolidfamilies #familytherapy  #marriagecounseling  #parenting  #faithba...

In part one of How We Love, we discussed the various love styles that often put us in a negative loving pattern.  In this show, part 2, we discuss how to love, well!  In this show we discuss the various aspects of what love looks like in the marriage when it is done well.   The many different points discussed must start with the awareness of wanting to love in a healthy manner.  http://rocksolidfa...

Celebrating our 200th show, we look back at a few of our favorite shows.  We also answer a list of questions that we have been receiving from our followers.  Questions: - My spouse and I are not equally yoked in the marriage, what should I do? - What is the role of the grandparent when it comes to weighing in on the parenting of the grandchildren? - What do I do if I want to seek help for the rela...

Loving people can be complicated.  Trying to bring in our personality and past experiences and mixing them with another's personality and experiences is no easy task.  In this show we talk from the book, How We Love,  about the love styles that often are imprinted on us from early on in our life.  Sometimes the love styles are positive, but sometimes they can work against us.  Learn more by l...

Parenting Season 4 - Emancipation.  Are you allowing your adult children to fly from the nest?  http://rocksolidfamilies.org Support the show #Rocksolidfamilies, #familytherapy,  #marriagecounseling,  #parenting,  #faithbasedcounseling, #counseling, #Strongdads, #coaching, #lifecoach, #lifecoaching, #marriagecoaching, #marriageandfamily, #control, #security, #respect, #affection, #love, #purpose,...

In Season 3 of Parenting the parents take on the role of a mentor.  It is during this season that we begin to teach our children how to work in the real world.  We are giving them skills to be practiced outside of the home. We are also allowing them to experience the natural rewards and consequences for their actions.   http://rocksolidfamilies.org Support the show #Rocksolidfamilies, #familythera...

Parenting Seasons are somewhat universal for children.  Their bodies and minds develop and require different things at different times in their development.  We call these seasons.  In this show we discuss Season 2 - Leadership and Authority 3-13 years of age.  https://www.rocksolidfamilies.org Support the show #Rocksolidfamilies, #familytherapy,  #marriagecounseling,  #parenting,  #faithbasedcoun...

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...