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5 Best Experience Gifts for Your Stepfamily
Why Experience Gifts are Best for Your Stepfamily Are you looking for the perfect gift for your children or stepchildren? Since the average stepfamily takes about four to seven years
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Help Your Teen Make the Most of Summer Break
Guest Post by Carrie Spencer College admissions offices are increasingly looking at teens’ summer activities to determine how motivated and well-rounded they’ll be as undergraduates. This means it’s more important
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Untangled: A Guide to Parenting Teenage Girls
“There are few situations in life which are more difficult to cope with than an adolescent son or daughter during the attempt to liberate themselves.” -Anna Freud If you are
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Stress-Free Strategies for Discussing Grades with Stepchildren
This academic year has been especially challenging with the pandemic and online schooling. Due to these challenges, one topic that has come up a lot in my work with stepmoms
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The Meaning of Family
Guest post by author Karen Struck What does family mean to you? Today’s definition of family means something different to each and every one of us. My favorite definition of
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Three Ways to Connect with Your Teenage Stepchildren
Connecting with teenagers can be difficult on a regular day, even without factoring in a time when we are largely confined to our homes. Add this on top of constantly
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Love Grows and Grows: A Children’s Book for Stepfamilies
A lot of stepmoms ask me about resources for their stepchildren that will address stepfamily issues. They want to find books with characters who are part of a stepfamily, so
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Quick Tip: Reframe How You Look at Your Stepchildren
Do you feel like drama comes along with your stepchildren? Do you ever think to yourself: if my stepkids weren’t here, I wouldn’t have to deal with their mother? If
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How to Raise Empathetic Children in a Stepfamily
Are you struggling with kindness and empathy in your household? Do you feel like your children and stepchildren could use a lesson in kindness and empathy? A little kindness can
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The Best Father’s Day Gift
Father’s Day is coming up soon, and if you’re anything like me, you’ve been thinking about what to have your stepchildren get for their dad, especially if he is the