by Julee Peterson | Apr 16, 2020 | Blended Family Relations, Challenges
And we are still inside the house. Sigh. I know. Change. Boredom. The routine of no routine. No break from the kids. Sheltering-in-place. Home all day. It’s all bad. Or is it? There is no more...
by Julee Peterson | Mar 28, 2020 | Approaches, Blended Family Relations, Challenges, Parenting
Whether you’re stuck at home with a blended family or a first family – times like these can become trials of patience. Tempers can get short and attention can wan. For blended families finding ways to make home feel “normal” is difficult,...
by Julee Peterson | Jan 30, 2020 | Approaches, Blended Family Relations, Challenges
Blended families are often born out of loss. Loss of attachment. Loss of dreams, loss of stability. The couples’ gain – remarriage – is often the children’s loss. No wonder blended families face three times the difficulties when starting out...
by Julee Peterson | Aug 22, 2018 | Blended Family Relations, Challenges, Parenting
Summer is a saucy schedule-less mess of chaos, fun, and boredom (per the kiddos) and is a hotbed for emotions. When the kids are around it’s a free-for-all of family life and that makes it hard to be objective about how everyone is relating. Back to school is...
by Julee Peterson | Sep 7, 2017 | Approaches, Blended Family Relations, Challenges
Does it matter if you call yourself a Blended family or a stepfamily? If you set your expectations lower will you have a more successful family relationship? Some professionals in the stepfamily world believe this, arguing that using the term blended family sets...
by Julee Peterson | Jun 28, 2017 | Blended Family Relations, Challenges, Parenting
I was going to write about Mother’s day and the discomfort that can come with it when you’re part of a blended family, but then I remembered a unexpected comment someone made to me one Mother’s Day about how I could never love my twin step-sons as I love my own child...
