I just can t see a perfect couple not having a disagreement, not having problems. Communication, she says, is key to a successful marriage and to parenting. We parents need to be more intimately involved with our children, Sara says. When a child is upstairs in his room and you are downstairs, that s not communicating. I find it very easy for us to talk in the car with no radio, no CD playing, she says.
Kids open up that way.
No backing down Reggie says that despite the problems he s faced since that speech in Wisconsin, he will continue to speak out. The greatest lesson I ve learned is that too many of us don t want to suffer, and we let people back us down from what we believe in, he says. The Bible constantly says that we should rejoice in suffering that comes against us. I understand that if I m not stirring the pot up, if people are not mad at me because of the way I live and the things I say, that means I m doing something wrong. Tom Neven is editor of Focus on the Family magazine.