Impacted By Blended Family Biases

What happens when your step-child or non-blood child is receiving negative feedback about you? That’s what I call impacted by a bias. A child wishes to trust both their parents as well as those in relationship to their parents. When the relationships are at odds it makes it difficult on the step-parent and the child. So what is one to do?

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
-bible.com/bible/116/HEB.13.8.NLT

We learned this secret from Jesus. There’s something powerful that happens when a person is consistent. That means they are the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Children love to be an environment that they don’t have to worry about how they will be treated or related to on a day by day basis. They enjoy relationships where the person or in this case parent doesn’t change with the changing temperature, so to speak. In being the best parent you can be in a blended family scenario, one must learn how to be disciplined and consistent in action and behavior.

[Pray This]
Lord, I’m asking You to help me to become disciplined and consistent in action and behavior so that I can be the best parent I can be to my children, in Jesus’ name.

Your Action (What action based on your prayer can you take?):
I find the areas where I’ve been inconsistent and unreliable so that my child and family can live in a stable environment.

For more on this topic, see “Blended Family Biases.”

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