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Emotional awareness / Stepfamily / stepfamily relationships / Stepfamily stress / Stepparent / Transition & Change

Stepfamily Beginnings – Helping Kids Cope

Changes and challenges are completely unavoidable when stepfamily forms. Here are some things you can do to support your child’s emotional health and wellbeing and help them adjust to their stepfamily reality.

Stepfamily

6 ways a biological parent can reduce tension & friction in a stepfamily.

Parenting in stepfamilies is not  straight forward – for stepparents or for biological parents. It doesn’t work like parenting in a first-time family. Parenting in stepfamilies is more complex and …

Special occasions / Stepfamily / Stepmothers

Stepmothers and Mother’s Day, Trials and Tribulations

Mother’s Day is annually observed in Australia and New Zealand on the second Sunday of May. It is an opportunity for everyone to pay tribute to their mothers and to …

Communication / Couple relationship / Stepfamily / Stepfamily stress

Tips and strategies to help stepparents talk with their partner

Research tells us that stepfamilies are at greater risk for divorce and separation than ‘first’ families due to the unavoidable stresses that accompany stepfamily life. The first two years in particular …

Stepfamily / stepfamily relationships / Stepmothers / Stepparenting

When love doesn’t come to town – What to do when you don’t love your stepchildren.

Whoever you are and whatever your circumstances, love is complex. Within stepfamilies however, love can be very complex. Especially when it comes to stepparents and stepchildren. This is thanks, in …

School/Education / Stepfamily / Stepparenting

5 tips for managing back to school Stepmum-style

Summer holidays are just about over. Can you hear that school bell ringing in the not-so-distant future? No matter how many times you’ve done it before, crossing the school gates …

Blended families / Special occasions / Stepfamily / Stepfamily holidays / Stepfamily stress

Tips For Stepfamily Gift-Giving

It’s that time of the year when it’s easy for coparents, stepparents and children to get caught up in the calendars, traditions, and negotiations for time together and time apart …

Stepchildren / Stepfamily / Stepmothers / Stepparent / Wellbeing & Gratitude

18 Lessons I Have Learnt From My Stepson

I have been in my stepson’s life for a number of years now. He was a toddler when I first met his father. He is now fully-fledged teenage man-boy. I …

Stepfamily / Stepfamily stress / Stepparent / Stepparenting

Stepparenting Obstacles: Shadows

I was reading a book the other day, “Between Two Homes – A Coparenting Handbook” by Bradley S. Craig, specifically chapter three which talks about the obstacles to establishing a …

Stepfamily / Stepfathers / Stepmothers / Stepparent / Stepparenting / Wellbeing & Gratitude

Stepparent Wellbeing: Who’s On Your Team?

Call it what you will – a team, peeps, clan, kinfolk, your tribe. Most everyone has one. The group of ‘A-lister’ individuals you surround yourself with and can turn to …

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