Frustrated With Shared Time Parenting

Are you a parent in a blended-family scenario where you share your child’s time with another? It can be very frustrating when that other parent tries to hijack your scheduled time or makes adjustments to the schedule. You probably feel like there’s nothing you can do about it and we totally empathize. Because we are people of faith (and you’re a person of faith), we can pray about it. Asking God for an answer is exactly how we were able to overcome this frustration and it may possibly be the only way you overcome it.

The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.
-bible.com/bible/111/PRO.21.5.niv

We found that not having a plan for our child for our scheduled time led to our frustrations. Because we weren’t diligent about making plans we didn’t profit or improve in the area of how we used our shared-time as parents. In other words because we didn’t have plans we were always at the mercy of someone who did. The same might be true for you. The first thought is “how can you make plans when the schedule is always changing?” But the truth is the schedule is always changing because you didn’t make plans.

[Pray This]

Lord, will You help me make plans like the diligent so that I can remove my frustrations as a shared-time parent. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Your Action (What action based on your prayer can you take?):
Take a moment to begin planning a simple family activity for you and your child for your next scheduled time together and hold fast to it.

For more on this topic, see “Setting a Schedule for Your Child(ren).”

Prayer Disclaimer Notice: prayer is not a miracle, it’s our conversation with God which gives us insight on how to respond to our situations and the world around us. For more detail, please review our prayer disclaimer notice in its entirety, available at nolongercommon.com/nlc-prayer-disclaimer.

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