Single & Step Parenting |
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When Your "Ex" is a Jerk
Do you have joint custody with a "jerk?" Is your ex uncooperative and difficult? You're not alone. And the task of raising a child - negotiating the details of visitation, school, money, health...
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Speed Dating for Single Parents
Everyone needs a chance to break away from their comfort zone. Speed Dating Events are a way for all single parents to do just that! Now, we know single parents are so busy with their children's lives, jobs...
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How to Deal with Children and the Holidays After Your Divorce
So you think you're moving along and adapting to your new split-family living situation. You take your children to their Dad on Tuesday and you'll...
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Your Stepchild: This Summer - Your House
I once knew a stepmom who lived in an exclusive adults-only community with her shiny perfect husband. Her stepchildren could not run and play outside when they visited. They slept in a room full of exercise...
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Sibling Harmony Versus Rivalry
Two siblings, ages three and five are bickering over the toys. The parent admonishes the younger child, “You are almost four, now share.” The older child next hits the younger child and the parent...
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Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce
Take Care of Yourself After Hurricane Andrew slammed into the Florida coast in 1992, killing twenty-six people and causing more than $30 billion...
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The Top 10 Things Single Parents DON'T Want to Hear
The following is a list of things that you may hear from people when you are a single parent. People who can relate to this list may also include...
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Alone Doesn't Mean Lonely
They are gone. The person you have strived to make a life with, work your world around and hold onto has slipped away. Or maybe you're the one. Either way, single parenthood in the beginning is tough. You are...
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The Positives of Single Parenting
Surprised by the title--don't be! There actually are positives in being a single parent. I don't want to glamorize this situation or minimize the actual difficulty in being a single parent, but when you are...
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Everyone Needs Flowers
My mother wanted to buy me flowers. It was a beautiful day. But as a new single mother, I was stressed. Months of job and personal stress had taken their toll. The baby was teething, so neither of us...
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Stepfamily Life: Stepmom Vs. The Ex: Declare a Ceasefire
When I decided to invite my husband’s ex-wife to Thanksgiving dinner at my house last year, more than a few people thought I had lost my...
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Stepfamily Life: Put the Kids Second
One of the things few of my stepmom-advice books told me before I got married is something every stepfamily needs to hear – put your marriage first and the kids second. About 43% of all...
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Stepfamily Life: Make "Family Time" a Priority
Stepfamilies are steeped in fairy tales. Wicked stepmother stereotypes and Brady Bunch mythology aren’t the only problems we have to contend with...
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Weird Alert: Will We Ever Be Normal?
Last fall my stepdaughter sounded the “it might look weird if three people show up” alert about back to school night, the annual autumnal pilgrimage where adults squeeze themselves into tiny desks...
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Divorce Fantasy
As a fantasy, divorce has a lot to recommend it. A good divorce fantasy can feel like an open window in a life otherwise shuttered in on itself. It can comfort a heart stinging from marital strife. It can...
