Posts Tagged ‘stepparent’
Blending Families Successfully – Destined to be a Classic
#blendingfamily #stepparent #remarriage #stepchildren Blending Families Successfully, by George S. Glass, published in 2014, deserves much more attention than it is getting for all the wisdom brimming between its covers. Dr. Glass is a board-certified psychiatrist with years of experience in counseling parents and individual clients. In Blending Families, he gets out from behind the…
Read MoreAdoption Was an Unwed Teenage Mother’s Option Before Out Patient Abortion Became Available
#adoption #1950s #teenagepregnancy Adoption was a commonplace practice in the 1940’s and ‘50’s before the introduction of the pill and outpatient abortion service. The children who lived next door to my family when I was a boy were adopted, all four of them. Kids in the neighborhood thought nothing of it. If questioned, parents responded…
Read MoreStepparent Seen by Adult Children as Parent’s New Partner But Not as a Stepparent.
#stepparent #blendedfamily #stepchild A reader from New York asked if I planned on commenting about the role of a stepparent when the stepchildren have left the home and are established as adults on their own. Great question! Great suggestion! There is not a whole lot of actual parenting to be done once children have moved…
Read MoreStepparent and Natural Parent Parenting Styles–Good Predictor for the Marriage Itself.
#stepparent #parentingstyle #blendingfmailies #secondmarriage I appreciate the responses to my postings about the role of a stepparent and step parenting. Several readers have shared their experiences, and I am including three of them here with comments as another installment of this series. When Parenting Styles Clash An Atlanta man wrote: Our blended family consisted of…
Read MoreBlending Family – Natural Parent’s Role Critical to Stepparent Success
#stepparent #stepchildren #blendingfamily As I wrote in my previous posting on the role of a stepparent, my wife Melinda and I are coming up on our 26th anniversary. We spent last Saturday evening with my stepson, Matt, and his wife Kristina at the North Carolina Jazz Festival, and I was reminded of how fortunate I…
Read MoreStepparent. Not a Role to Be Undertaken Lightly.
#stepparent #stepchild #blendingfamilies Over the years, Matt and I grew closer and closer. When Melinda decided to pursue an MBA at night school, Matt and I prepared, shared, and cleaned up after the evening meal twice a week—no big productions. We had a great time. Today, I love him as I do my own sons. We…
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