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Do You Recognize Your Value and Calling as a Stepparent?

Posted: March 20th, 2012, 1:52pm UTC by Step Parenting with Grace
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Excerpt from Kisses from Katie: "What would cause an eighteen-year-old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee, to disobey and disappoint her parents by forgoing college, break her little brother's heart, lose all but a handful of her friends (because they think she has gone off the deep end), and break up with [...]

Do You Recognize Your Value and Calling as a Stepparent?


Step-Relationships Change as Time Passes - Stepfamily

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Step-Relationships Change as Time Passes

Posted: April 10th, 2012, 3:58pm UTC by Step Parenting with Grace
Our family enjoyed a long Easter week-end with four of our five children home.
As I watched our kids interact, I couldn't help but reminisce of times past when
we encountered constant bickering and conflict among them. But now, with
four of our children in their young adult years and only one child at home,
the relationships have [...]

Step-Relationships Change as Time Passes


Five Ways to Create Stronger Stepfamily Relationships

Posted: April 18th, 2012, 1:30pm UTC by Step Parenting with Grace
I was married to a physician turned alcoholic in my first marriage,
and toward the end of that 11-year-union, I learned to apply
the slogans of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) to cope with my everyday challenges.
But AA slogans shouldn't be confined to only problems
in alcoholic relationships. When I entered a stepfamily
upon marrying the second time, I quickly recognized the value of [...]

Five Ways to Create Stronger Stepfamily Relationships