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1. | How to keep your relationship healthy and happy
When you entered into your relationship I'm sure you didn't fall in love with the children and think 'I must live with these children and their mum/dad's not too bad either. I guess I could put ...
[Added: 18 Jan 2007 Hits: 53 Words: 841]
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2. | How to talk so your partner listens and your stepfamily thrives
Lots and lots of us in stepfamilies find it difficult to talk through sensitive issues with our partner. Sometimes it seems impossible to communicate without arguments over the children or the ex partner.
How does ...
[Added: 23 Dec 2006 Hits: 73 Words: 855]
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3. | Christmas With The Not-So-Wicked Step-parent
Christmas can be a magical time of year for families - decorations, special food, school plays, parties and bags of excitement - but for separated parents and step-parents Christmas can often bring a mixed bag ...
[Added: 01 Nov 2006 Hits: 68 Words: 396]
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4. | How to Win Friends and Influence your Stepchildren
Okay, so I admit it, I adapted the famous title of Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People, a book that contains powerful messages from great leaders about how to have others like you and do almost anything ...
[Added: 12 Sep 2006 Hits: 77 Words: 869]
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5. | How Stepparents can prevent jealousy from damaging their relationship
Julie Andrews in the sound of music is the vision of the perfect stepmother. Devoted to the children, making play clothes from curtains, singing songs and putting on shows with them. Sickening isn't it!
Not a week goes by that I don't hear from ...
[Added: 30 Aug 2006 Hits: 153 Words: 693]
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6. | Would you like to get on with the teenage boy in your stepfamily?
I've read a great book, Raising Boys. We have a teenage boy and being an idealist I picked up the book after feeling like something wasn't quite with our relationship. I felt he'd become arrogant, difficult to talk with and generally less enjoyable to be around. I ...
[Added: 07 Aug 2006 Hits: 200 Words: 945]
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7. | "I Want To Be Heard!"
A common gripe in a stepfamily is that people feel they're not being listened to.
We're all busy and there is often a lot to be communicated in a stepfamily. It's really important for everyone to have a say and be listened to. Equal amount of airtime ...
[Added: 28 Mar 2006 Hits: 69 Words: 526]
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