Navigating Step-Parent Dynamics: The Importance of a Collaborative Role

The intersection of marriage and parenting often creates tension for stepcouples that leads to disagreements and, as a result, slows down relationship building.

Listen to Ron Deal and Gayla Grace give valuable input on how to become a parenting team and strengthen your marriage in the process as you cope with common stepfamily dynamics such as: different parenting styles, co-parenting struggles, rejection from stepchildren, stepparent ambiguity, fear of failure, a paralyzed biological parent, a stepparent who oversteps their place, guilt from the past and fear to parent well because of what the children have already walked through, and other challenging dynamics.

Show Notes and Resources

• Register for this year's Summit on Stepfamily Ministry! 
• Watch Women & Blended Families 
• Watch: No Threat video 
• Check out Stepparenting with Grace and Building Love Together. 
• The Smart Stepfamily on RightNow Media 

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