Stepfamily

13 Secrets Of Successful Communication With Your Kids Post-Split

Rosalind Sedacca | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Co Parenting, Divorce Kids, Parenting After Divorce, Stepfamily, Parenting, Divorce, Communication With Kids, Parenting Post Divorce, Divorce News

It's no secret that one of the biggest challenges a parent faces after divorce is staying in good communication with your children.

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Why Stepmoms Get Shafted On Mother's Day

HuffingtonPost.com | Natasha Burton | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Video, Stepfamily, Divorce, Mother's Day 2012, Mother's Day, Stepfamilies, Stepmom, Stepmother, Slideexpand, Mothers, Mothers and Daughters, Divorce News

To stepmother Judy Osborne, Mother’s Day is “the hardest day of the year.” Osborne, a Brookline, Mass.-based marriage and family therapist, ...

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Vows to Re-Visit on Mother's Day

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Stepfamily, Authoritarian, Permissiveness, Teens, Voes, Mother's Day, Parenting, Grandparents, Childrearing, Mothers, Family, Parents News

I have spoken to many women about the vows they make when they become mothers. As we approach Mother's Day once again, I think it is time to have a frank discussion about them.

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5 Mistakes Stepfamilies Make

Deborah Gaines | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Step-Parenting, Stepfamily, Parenting Tips, Parenting Advice, Raising Stepchildren, Stepfamilies, Tips for Stepfamilies, Fifty News

There's something hilarious about the phrase "blended family." As though you can throw two sets of hostile people in the blender and serve them poolside with fruit kebabs and little paper umbrellas.

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Birth Order And Personality: What Does It All Mean?

Hayley Krischer | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Birth Order, Stepfamily, Blended Families, Family, Divorced, Personality, Children, Parents, Siblings, Parents-Moms, Parents News

Studies from the past three years show that birth order determines IQ and our personality traits. If this is so, then how do sibling rivalries shake out in stepfamilies when birth order becomes an issue?

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Confessions Of A Wicked Step-Mother

Nina Lorez Collins | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Stepchildren, Stepfamily, Dating After Divorce With Kids, Divorce, Dating-After-Divorce, Dating After Divorce, Dating, Stepmom, Stepmother, Jealousy, Dating-After-Divorce-With-Kids, Stepfather, Stepchild, Divorce News

When I got married, at twenty-three, I became a stepmother to a seven-year-old-boy. I'd known Jonah since he was four, and his parents had divorced wh...

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Over 40% of Americans Have Step-Relatives: New Study

A Portrait of Stepfamilies | Kim Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Divorce Rate, Stepfamily, Step Realtives, Divorce, Divorce Facts, Blended Families, Pew Research Center, Divorce News

Today, more than four-in-ten American adults have at least one step relative in their family -- either a stepparent, a step or half sibling or a stepc...

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How Divorce Burns the Soup

Candace Walsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Welfare, Downward Mobility, Stepfamily, Food Stamps, Family-Mealtimes, Divorce, Tv-Dinners, Family Meals, Remarriage, Joint Custody, Family Dinners, Divorce News

During divorce, home-life rituals are disrupted. Cooking and regular sit-down dinners are often the first things to go. It's harder to meal-plan, shop...

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The Holidays: How Stepfamilies Can Be Happier

Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.17.2011

Stepfamilies often experience extraordinary stress as the holidays--with their pressure cooker of "family" expectations--get underway. So, let go of the Three Big Myths of Stepfamily life.

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Let's Stop Expecting Sandra Bullock to Be a Stepmartyr

Wednesday Martin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stepchildren, Infidelity, Wednesday Martin, Sunny James, Stepfamily, Divorce, Jesse James, Stepmartyr, Affair, Stepmonster, Stepmother, Remarriage, Step Mother, Remarriage With Children, Sandra Bulllock, Entertainment News

Many women suffer from what I call Stepmartyr Syndrome--embracing the notion that they are going to make it all better for everyone, whatever the cost to them personally.

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2010: Year of the New American Family

Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stepfamily Public Education, Stepfamily Advice, Stepfamily, Divorce, New American Family, U.S. Census, Stepmother, Stepfamily Research, Remarriage, Remarriage With Children, Family, Healthy Living News

Until there is better support, public education, and understanding, here are ten research-based resolutions stepfamilies can make to usher in a new decade of stepfamily satisfaction.

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When And Why You Shouldn't Put The Kids First

Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.17.2011

Shunting the husband/wife relationship to the back burner whenever the stepchildren are around is, it turns out, a recipe for marital and step-family disaster.

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Stepfamilies To Uncle Sam: Learn To Count!

Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.17.2011

We're hearing a lot about the new U.S. Census these days and many might wonder what, precisely, is at stake. For stepfamilies, the answer is: quite a bit.

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The Bride Wore Red

Holly Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marriage, Parenting, Stepfamily, Brides, Love, Remarriage, Weddings, Style News

The reality of my approaching marriage was getting on my nerves. I kept wiggling it like a sore tooth, poking at it in places that I knew would hurt.

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Stepmothers, Mothers and the "B" Word

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lisa Earle McLeod, Triangle of Truth, Forget Perfect, Stepfamily, Finding Grace, ABC Primetime Stepfamilies, Healthy Living News

Today's stepmoms might not be accused of casting spells, but talk to any first wife about her husband's new wife and you'll likely discover a bubbling cauldron of resentment.

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The New Shape of Family

Holly Robinson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gosselins, Divorce, Children, Jon and Kate Gosselin Divorce, The Council on Contemporary Families, Blended Families, Separation, Marriage, Stepfamily, Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin, The Stepfamily Foundation, Stepfamilies, Children of Divorce, Arianna Huffington, Remarriage, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Family, Healthy Living News

Divorce can be dignified. Our children deserve the best of us even when the marriage bonds we once thought permanent fray and break.

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John McCain and Barack Obama -- America's First Campaign Where Divorce May Be a Good Experience for Leadership Skills

Jill Brooke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stepchildren, John McCain Family, Rudy Giuliani Wife, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Stepfamily, Divorce, Family Values, Giuliani Family Values, 2008 Election, Barack Obama Family, Barack Obama, Family, Politics News

Being in a divorced household is like living in two countries, with two different sets of traditions, rules and expectations. Brokering peace becomes a necessity. And some do it better than others.

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