By Ron Deal Part of the Parenting in Blended Families Series Blended Families Parenting In Blended Families Smart Stepparenting Stepparenting: It Takes Two The Smart Stepparent Series About: Single/Blended Family Parenting Fuse/Thinkstock Grow into Your Role Stepparenting changes as relationships grow. “Early in remarriage, the most successful stepparent-stepchild relationships are those where the stepparent focuses first on …
A BLOG ABOUT MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH BY SALLY CONNOLLY, LCSW, LMFT Sally Connolly, LCSW, LMFT has been a therapist for over 30 years, specializing in work with couples, families and relationships. She has expertise with clients …Read More Do you wonder if your stepfamily will ever “blend”? Do you know what happens in a “healthy” stepfamily? How …
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Developing happy and harmonious relationships in any family comes with its challenges, but blending two different families has its own particular bumps and bright spots. It can take several years, or more, for stepfamilies to find a groove that is comfortable for everyone. The early years can be particularly challenging. Not only are new couples …
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By Jeffry H. Larson Glenda divorced her first husband two years ago; at that time she had two preschoolers. Six months ago, she married a man who had custody of his eleven-year-old son from a prior marriage. Now they all lived together as a stepfamily. When she remarried, she expected that things would be better “the …
How to Bond with Your Stepchildren and Deal with Stepfamily Issues Since many remarriages include children from previous relationships, blended families or stepfamilies are more common than ever. When families “blend,” though, it rarely progresses smoothly. Some children may resist changes, while you as a parent can become frustrated when your new family doesn’t function …
Effective problem solving can help you avoid getting depressed. Posted Mar 28, 2012 Source: Shutterstock Living with a chronic condition, like depression, requires you to focus on creating balance and well-being on a daily basis. For those who are separated, divorced or sharing custody of a child, the struggles of co-parenting can produce enormous stressors. Co-parenting, sometimes …
Going through divorce can be a difficult process for all parties involved. However, when children are involved, divorce can become that much more complicated; rather than parting ways, both parents must still work together for the benefit of their children. Navigating this new family dynamic can be one of the trickiest …
As the song goes, “breaking up is hard to do”—but you can make it easier on your kids. Here’s how to rock at co-parenting. BY DAWN CALLEJA | DEC 29, 2014 1. Collaborate, don’t litigate Acrimony is expensive financially (a divorce trial, on average, costs each party $13,000, but that figure can go up to $100,000 or more) but also …
By Jennifer Wolf Updated November 12, 2018 It takes a lot of work for two parents to get to the point where they can say their co-parenting relationship is actually going really well. For most families, there is much room for improvement. Rather than focusing on what’s not working, though, identify what is going well so …
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More in Discipline Styles Strategies Child discipline is about how to prevent behavioral problems so that punishment for misbehavior is a rare and unnecessary occurrence. One helpful way to think about child discipline is to see it as another way of teaching your child life lessons rather than as something you do to punish your child for misbehaving. …