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No Child Left Behind – Make Sure Everyone is Included
Parents feel the pressure to help each of their children feel included, loved, and heard. This is not a new phenomenon, but rather something that is intrinsic to human nature. If you are reading this...
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How to Survive Family Outings
In many ways life was simpler before children. If you wanted to leave the house you would put on your shoes, grab keys, and walk out the front door. With children, especially with multiple children,...
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Three Learning Apps Your Children Need
It’s quickly becoming an electronic world, and our children are using smartphones and tablets and computers for all sorts of entertainment. Instead of letting them play mindless games like Candy Crush...
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Properly Defining Your Expectations as a Step Parent
Divorce is a tricky thing to navigate when children are involved; becoming a step parent is even trickier. With the proper care and communication in defining expectations, however, you can make it...
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Changes to Make Before You Marry
Too many people marry before they’re actually ready, or fail to make the changes necessary to make the marriage work. As a result, relationships fall apart and divorce is often the result. Rather than...
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Keeping Your Family United
One of the greatest fears for a parent is losing control of their family over time, and becoming a disjointed group with forced cohabitation more than a celebrated and treasured union who love each...
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Adjusting You Home for New Family Members
Creating A New Normal Whether adding new family members through birth, adoption or marriage, adjusting to a new person in the house can be a difficult transition for many. Three keys to making the...
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When you join two families together you are usually aware of everyone you’re going to get. New partner, new kids, new in-laws and new friends. Sometimes though, you forget about that other person that...
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The Stepmom’s Secret
Have you ever wondered what’s in it for stepmoms? Why do they do what they do? It turns out they have a secret. This one goes out to the stepmoms who have grappled with fear over losing their...
View ArticleFamilies – Not All Are Created Equal
In full disclosure: This blended families post is for a limited audience. I hate to do this, because I generally like to have my blog be something that we all can relate to – something that every...
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