What Does Trust Mean to a Stepmom?
Trust is one of the pillars in a healthy relationship. That’s trust for a spouse, friends, children, and most of […]
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3 Co-Parenting Tips for Less Stress and Happier Children
These co-parenting tips will make your life easier. Honest.
Co-parenting often proves a nightmarish, combative process, with your children’s health and well-being as collateral damage.
Resentful and embittered divorced parents share inappropriate information with their children, or just outright lie to them about the other parent. Some do it for revenge. Some do it to maintain control over their children, whom they believe are “theirs” more than the other parent’s, and that the ends justify the means.
The real victims, however, are the children. They get deprived of emotional wellness and a chance for a healthy relationship with both parents. Even if sabotaging the parental relationship is successful, and the relationship between the children and the other parent is severed, the relationship with the alienating parent is far from healthy.
So here’s what to do for your kids.
How to Develop a Parenting Plan After Remarriage
Co-parenting is tough. Between difficult exes, threatened spouses, manipulative children, communication challenges, and the messy aftermath of previous marriages, parents and step-parents alike have their work cut out for them.
Understand the obstacles to co-parenting, their effects, learn how to overcome them by collaborative planning, and keep your new marriage from ending the same way as your last one.
How Kids Sabotage Remarriages and What to Do About It
You’re free from your old, poisonous relationship. You’ve found someone new who you love. Remarriage is shaping up to be the best time of your life.
That is, unless your children have something to say about it…
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Tips for the New School Year
As you and your children are settling into the routine of the new school year, you might begin to experience
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Tips on Adolescents and Sexuality
Sexuality is a major preoccupation of thoughts and feelings for most, if not all, teens. In some stepfamilies, the adolescent sexuality may raise much concern due to the lack of biological relationship with the stepparent and inappropriate behaviors by the adolescents.
Here are some tips to help your adolescent and your family cope with his/her unfolding sexuality…
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Tips for a Joyous Summer Vacation
Stepfamilies face the emotional and physical adjustments in the transition from one household to another. Custody changes are more frequent
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Tips for Unrealistic Expectations
Unrealistic expectations often cause misunderstandings, miscommunication, and much confusion in any relationship. In stepfamilies it is a core issue that
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Tips for Men in Stepfamilies
In traditional biological families, men have been expected to be the wage earners, the heads of their families, and the
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Tips for Women in Stepfamilies
Women are expected to be the emotional core of their families. In stepfamilies the expectation is the same. For stepmothers however, it is an unrealistic expectation, at least for a year to a year and a half. Here are some tips to help you improve and solidify your role as a wife, mother, and/or stepmother…