1. 12
Blended Families
Part 3

3. Review
Remarrying integrates two families not just two people.
Care should be given to children’s needs, fears, and present conditions.

4. Parenting Someone Else’s Child
Visitation issues
Parenting another’s child
Interference
Rejection
Indecision
Lack of experience

5. Stepping into a New Role

6. A New Model that Includes:
Gracious Love
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. - John 3:16

7. A New Model that Includes:
Fairness
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; - Romans 10:12

8. A New Model that Includes:
Attentiveness
Are not five sparrows sold for two cents? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows. - Luke 12:6

9. A New Model that Includes:
Discipline
and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by Him; - Hebrews 12:5

10. Stepping in from the Outside

11. Stepping into New Responsibilities

12. Stepping into New Responsibilities
Attitudes towards the marriage

13. Stepping into New Responsibilities
Attitudes towards the marriage
Attitude towards self-worth

14. Stepping into New Responsibilities
Attitudes towards the marriage
Attitude towards self-worth
Attitude towards life

15. Stepping into New Responsibilities
Attitudes towards the marriage
Attitude towards self-worth
Attitude towards life
Attitudes towards God

16. Stepping into New Relationships

17. Stepping into New Relationships
Step 1 – Accept that you are a “stepparent”

18. Stepping into New Relationships
Step 1 – Accept that you are a “stepparent”
Step 2 – Educate yourself

19. Stepping into New Relationships
Step 1 – Accept that you are a “stepparent”
Step 2 – Educate yourself
Step 3 – Don’t assume

20. Stepping into New Relationships
Step 1 – Accept that you are a “stepparent”
Step 2 – Educate yourself
Step 3 – Don’t assume
Step 4 – Set objectives

21. Stepping into New Relationships
Step 1 – Accept that you are a “stepparent”
Step 2 – Educate yourself
Step 3 – Don’t assume
Step 4 – Set objectives
Step 5 – Be flexible yet firm

22. Stepping into New Relationships
Step 1 – Accept that you are a “stepparent”
Step 2 – Educate yourself
Step 3 – Don’t assume
Step 4 – Set objectives
Step 5 – Be flexible yet firm
Step 6 – Market yourself

23. Stepping into New Relationships
Step 1 – Accept that you are a “stepparent”
Step 2 – Educate yourself
Step 3 – Don’t assume
Step 4 – Set objectives
Step 5 – Be flexible yet firm
Step 6 – Market yourself
Step 7 – Exercise Forgiveness

24. Stepping into New Relationships
Step 1 – Accept that you are a “stepparent”
Step 2 – Educate yourself
Step 3 – Don’t assume
Step 4 – Set objectives
Step 5 – Be flexible yet firm
Step 6 – Market yourself
Step 7 – Exercise Forgiveness
Step 8 – Learn to Laugh

25. God’s grace is what makes a blended family acceptable and successful.