We all need to feel as if we have a place to call our own. And to be the best stepmother you can be, it’s crucial to lay claim to a space that can become your sanctuary, whether you’re moving into the home where the kids already live (which most stepfamily experts recommend you don’t do if you can help it) or you’re all moving to a new place together. Continue reading “Do You Have Your Own Sacred Place?”
Dec 09 2011
Do You Have Your Own Sacred Place?
Dec 05 2011
This Land Is My Land! Part (3)
Stories like Debra’s are exactly the type of experience stepmothers can’t talk about with just anybody. Friends or siblings who have children have had time to adjust to what life is like with kids, and they don’t understand why this is so upsetting to a new stepmother who was a complete stranger to these children not long ago. Continue reading “This Land Is My Land! Part (3)”
Dec 01 2011
This Land Is My Land! Part (2)
I wanted to know right away what my role was within our stepfamily. How many rights did I have in my own house? What could I say to the kids when they were misbehaving and their father wasn’t around? How much power did I have? Continue reading “This Land Is My Land! Part (2)”
Nov 27 2011
This Land Is My Land!
Back when I was a sassy single gal in my late twenties living in my cool bachelorette pad, I remember my parents telling me to relish my existence. They knew that one day, when I got married and started a family, I would miss that apartment. I would long for the quiet and the orderliness. I would crave the serene, smooth sailing of my even-keeled emotions. Continue reading “This Land Is My Land!”
Nov 23 2011
Us Against the World
In a culture of self-interest, how do you turn “What’s best for me?” into “What’s best for us?” The challenge of any marriage is to figure out how to work and live in a partnership while maintaining your own purpose. But the only way to achieve a working stepfamily is if both you and your husband work together as a unified team. Continue reading “Us Against the World”
Nov 07 2011
How to Take the Heart of Your Stepchildren? Part (2)
Psychologist and author Patricia Papernow called the role “intimate outsider,” in which you are close and part of the family, but you are also just a bit outside so you have a more objective viewpoint. Your role is also going to depend on what ages the kids are when you marry their dad. Children’s behavior changes as they move from one developmental stage to the next. Continue reading “How to Take the Heart of Your Stepchildren? Part (2)”
Nov 03 2011
How to Take the Heart of Your Stepchildren?
As you’ve begun the work of identifying what everyone in your stepfamily unit feels and wants from their family experience, you can begin to solidify what your role will be with your family members. “I didn’t always know what I was doing,” admits former family law attorney Heidi. “What is my role? What are my boundaries? Continue reading “How to Take the Heart of Your Stepchildren?”
Aug 02 2011
The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon, which its original Broadway was released in May 2011, tells a story of two young missionaries given task to share their scriptures in a remote village in northern Uganda. They are still young and optimistic with the mission when they face a lot of problems to communicate with the local community there who are only worried about poverty, famine, and AIDS. Continue reading “The Book of Mormon”
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