A Guide To Step Parenting By: Andrew Green Step Parenting was once mostly tied to the loss of a parent, though in modern times it is becoming a situation where children’s parents split up as well. In reality it can be good or bad. If it’s possible for children to have 2 sets of parents, and keep a good peaceful and positive environment, that can be great and give them twice the opportunities. Often this isn’t the case and it isn’t perfect, though it’s wise to do the best to make it work for the children.
Got Dysfunction? How To Break Your Destructive Family Cycle By: Jason Frenn If you’re like most of us, the last thing you want to do is turn into your parents. You’ve probably vowed to be different when you had your own children – but now that you do, are you noticing little things you say or do make you cringe, when you discover that you’re repeating your parents’ mistakes? You don’t have to keep the cycle going. Believe me... if I can break the parental mold, so can you.
Effects of Divorce - How Often do YOU Feel Guilty? By: Charlotte Kamman. I want to tell you about the effects of divorce I experienced myself. I know there are many, many websites about the effects of divorce, how bad it is for children, how to organize your new situation financially and practically, but that is not what I want to talk about here. I want to tell you the story of my life, and I want to take you on a trip through an area where I feel my divorce has had a much bigger impact than I would ever have imagined. Tags: stepparenting, stepfamily, stepfamilies, blended families, self-development, family, children, pa
STEP WARS--Overcoming the Perils and Making Peace in Adult Stepfamilies By: Yvonne Kelly The dynamics of stepfamilies can be powerful and toxic--especially when adult children are dealing with the complexities of relationships that come when their own parents, in later life, remarry. Adult children may suddenly be forced to adjust to new relationships with parents, step-parents, step-siblings, and possibly the birth of new siblings; and face new financial situations, such as adjusted inheritances. Tags: stepfamily, step family, stepfamilies, step families, stepparent, step-parent, step parent
Step Families – The Trouble with Expectations By: Joan Sarin, M.S Step families have their own version of a “happily ever after” myth – generally there’s an expectation that the remarriage will heal the family from the trauma of divorce. My son was nine, and my husband’s daughter was six when we married; in my mind we were creating a perfect family of four, just as I had always wanted. It was a lovely expectation, only a totally unrealistic one. Tags: stepfamily support, step family, step families, stepfamily f
The Stepchild’s Point of View By: Joan Sarin, M.S My son became a stepchild at nine, after being the only child of a single mom since he could remember. When he grew up, he shared this with me: “The odd thing for a child who becomes part of a stepfamily is that their sense of the safe and familiar becomes totally disrupted almost overnight. Tags: stepfamily support, step family, step families, stepfamily f
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