Communication with parenting Communication becomes even more crucial when dealing with children, and still more important with stepchildren. It is essential that you and your spouse have communicated with each other, and then explicitly share important information with the kids. This information includes rules, expectations, and boundaries. In a traditional family, the children have grown up with each parent and…
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Foundations After Marriage -Part 1
Part 1 You successfully married again! Love is in the air! Now is not the time to sit back and allow autopilot to take control, now is the time to stay alert and stay focused on your plan to have a better marriage than before. You have kids who need you. They need you to be there for them, but…
Blended Family Foundations
Why is the foundation important? Just like in life, the place to start is the foundation: without a solid foundation, everything else is unstable. When an entrepreneur decides to start a business, the first step is arguably creating a business plan. When a student first learns a new sport they start with the fundamentals. Everything big and worth doing is…
Why a blog for blended families?
That is the question we asked ourselves upfront. Why do this? What do we have to offer blended families out there? Aren’t there enough resources already? 75% of stepfamilies complain of “not having access to resources as a stepfamily,” according to a recent Stepfamily Foundation survey of 2000 web questionnaires. The reason to do this is not a short, simple,…