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 [...]
First of all, thanks for the lively discussion and comments to last week’s post about selfish stepparents. I thought I’d go with something a little lighter this week — how stepfamilies can have fun on Labor Day weekend. I combined some ideas for those who live in urban areas with ideas for those who have recreational [...]
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The days are long
But the time is short.
— Unknown
Although you wouldn’t know it from my picture, summer officially starts in four days (and maybe my picture will change at exactly the same time!).
A few of you may be committed to year-round school with two-week breaks every quarter, but most of us are entering [...]
I’m talking about a real, get-in-the-car, bike, or hike kind of day trip, by the way. As you may already know, I write nine things so you can fill in the tenth.
Get you and your family out of the house. I love my home and have been working on making it a comfortable place with some [...]
This post will pique the interest of parents with high school seniors. The post-graduation summer between high school and college is a creature alive with its own personality. These months require parenting skills unlike those in any other phase of parenting.
I remember the summer before I left for college I made a very questionable choice, [...]
A friend of mine brought up an interesting dilemma this weekend. Her daughter is finishing third grade but reads well beyond her grade level (eighth grade according to AR scores). How does she keep her daughter challenged as a reader without exposing her to material beyond her maturity level?
This situation reminds me of any child-development [...]
Last Wednesday I blogged about anger, and the very same day another of my stepparent colleagues also blogged about stepparent anger. Are we affected by the upcoming full moon, or is this a recurring theme families need to pay attention to? What do you think?
I’ve been focusing on ways I can “come down” from feeling angry [...]
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. -Ambrose Bierce
There are three cardinal rules I have to follow when I feel angry at a member of my stepfamily. I’m writing about this because I have blown it before. No real good comes out of a screaming match [...]
Today’s post is my quick reflection on the process we parents have to go through when our kids are too sick to go to school (that is, if they are not homeschooled.) Households in which both parents report to a place of work have the biggest challenge: Who will take time off to stay home [...]