Happy 2010 to all! I don’t always do New Year’s resolutions but a firm one I have this year is to publish Stepparenting the Grieving Child in book form. Check out the preview audio to this book here at my website. This material is still the only dedicated resource for stepparents living with children whose [...]
I am so thrilled today to share with you that my audio preview is live and ready for your prime time listenership! This is the first dedicated resource I know of for stepparents coming into a family where a parent has died. In today’s post I also inform you about a few other stepparenting and family resources.
For the [...]
I was struck, during and after my recent interview with Barbara Bue of KRFC radio, by how little she and I knew about each other and yet how much we had in common as stepmoms. As we are diving headlong into the holiday season, I’m advocating a little reminder to all stepparents to seek out [...]
I am just so excited to report that I’ve just recorded the Stepparenting the Grieving Child audio with interviewer Barbara Bue of KRFC Radio. Barb herself is a stepparent and was intensely interested in my information, which makes both sides of the interview commentary very engaging.
You can expect to hear about three distinct phases of [...]
I don’t get a lot of messages from readers who are thinking about becoming a stepparent. Most of us already are.
One message I received this past summer was indeed from a divorced woman with a nine-year-old son who has been dating a widow of four years with three children (two of whom are teenagers). I wanted [...]
In doing research for one of my writing projects, I became inspired by this quote:
“The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.” — Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychotherapist, author, and Holocaust survivor
These powerful words remind us that every day we are in charge of our attitudes and behaviors. I think [...]
Now that I have your attention, here’s what I really think about the continued comments I’m receiving on my Selfish Stepparenting? post: They are poignant, revealing, and I think important to the types of dialogues we have and continue to have in and about stepfamilies. These comments raise some provocative questions, such as: What does a child [...]
We had a great time taking family pictures at the Colorado State University Gardens, except when young Amy got stung by a bee! After a short break she was a trooper and continued snapping multiple poses.
No one but me was keeping track of the connection with National Stepfamily Day…but the word is growing!
Have a great [...]
Wow, it’s here! September 16 is National Stepfamily Day (NSD), and now there is quite the buzz about trying to make this day International Stepfamily Day. I have always noticed through my stepfamily research that the countries of Canada, the UK, Australia, and Japan have active stepfamily associations. Canada and the UK already recognize Stepfamily Day. Does [...]
I’d like to join the National Stepfamily Resource Center’s effort to raise your awareness of a special holiday: the thirteenth annual National Stepfamily Day (NSFD) on Sept. 16, 2009. When reflecting on the purpose of National Stepfamily Day, founder Christy Borgeld says:
”Our nation has been blessed by thousands upon thousands of loving stepparents and stepchildren who [...]