We have to start by how far apart are the parents and their teens. I mean when you as a parent had your child at a young age, let’s say you had your child at age 15 you are not…
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Being a part-time parent to someone else’s child can be a tough role to take on. Being a step-parent is a bit like belonging to a secret club, one that actually contains millions of members yet doesn’t have a handshake…
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Counseling An At Risk Teen on Setting Goals for Improving Their Life & the Follow Through:When counseling someone you should understand this: The path to a truth or to a goal is a journey to be taken between you and…
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In any family – blended or traditional – chores need to be divvied out between all members of the family. For children, it helps create a healthy work ethic, teaching them skills they’ll need to implement their entire life. The…
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There is always a bond between a mother and her children, some mothers’ do not recognise this, others choose to ignore and still others feel resentful of it. I am one of the lucky ones, I have four beautiful children,…
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At no time in my great nation’s history have fathers been more absent in the family dynamic as today. Single mothers have increasingly been burdened with the responsibilities of playing the role of mother and father. While there are some…
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After seven years of being the “Brady Bunch” family, I can say that I have finally mastered the art of mothering my children vs. the stepchildren. Now when I say verses, in the beginning that is what it felt like….
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Sharing chores in a blended family is even more important than sharing chores in a biological family. In order for each member of the family to feel valued, equal, and accepted, they need to have equal roles and responsibilities. Children,…
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Raising children now days is not quite so easy! Financially, it’s incredibly hard! And academically! I need to take classes myself, just to be able to help with their homework! And our children are in grade and first year of…
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In 1955, divorce uncommon, and television families portrayed in black and white, has changed significantly, between then, and today. Blended families were rare. Today, there is nothing rare or unusual about a blended family. The image of 1955, complete with…
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It’s absolutely impossible to go back in time to make things right, especially of a parent who tries so desperately to make up for the wrongs they have done to you. Finally, when you (the child) reaches a certain age…
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Why must a ‘blended’ family always accept a new parent as the dominator or role of the other parent? Is it not the role of the parent that the child or children live with to establish for themselves (whether it…
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Tauntbut Beware the Sting! BullyingAn abhorrent social malaise If ever a picture reflected the painful reality of Bullying, it is that of Dumas’ painting of a recalcitrant and pugnacious Corsican-born youth, standing alone but steadfast among his peers, at a…
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If your battle to gain custody of your children after divorce has resulted in your ex coming out the winner, it may simply be due to what you’ve been saying. To involve your children in grown up matters involving you…
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Over protection isn’t healthy for children. It does nothing but teach the child that life itself is dangerous. It teaches the child to always be too careful, and that isn’t good. Bad things happen when you’re not careful. But then…
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Is it fair to expect a mother to risk alienation from her adult children? This is the question I’m forced to ask myself when considering this debate. Some will argue that it’s a mother’s responsibility to mediate conflicts between her…
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This is something I noticed between the Asian culture and the Western culture: In the Asian culture, a lot of people live with their parents until they get married; some people still live with their parents even after getting married….
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I am young, but I have already thought about some good questions to ask my parents, especially when I am on lengthy car or plane trips and I need something to talk about with them. I usually ask them about…
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Every person on the planet has learned the importance of mothers in the lives of their children. Even during normal parenting classes, they are geared towards feats of the mom and only briefly touch on the dad side of things….
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Most parents do the best they can to teach their children good values and morals, but this can feel like a never ending lesson at times. Even when our children are grown we want to offer them guidance, but we…
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When children are small, it is essential for their well-being (and household sanity) to jump in and resolve arguments quickly and, at times, forcefully. As individuals mature into adulthood and become more autonomous from their siblings, disputes may still arise…
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We’ve all been there, mom just spent $350 dollars on something that dad doesn’t feel they needed and he’s stressing out about how the bills are going to get paid. Or dad went out with his work buddies and didn’t…
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Six sons, six bonds, each unique in their own way. Of the six boys in our clan, only two share my genealogical DNA. But despite the distinctions in our bloodlines, each of us is unified by an equal kinship. Five…
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Mothers who complain to their children about every detail of “woe is me” is an infection in an otherwise healthy family unit. Ironically, the “woe” is usually followed by “X amount of money could help me out”. When the support…
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When your children were small, you tolerated numerous arguments among the siblings. You knew this was how they learned to handle the opposition they’d inevitably confront in the outside world. You’d stop the actual fisticuffs before the blood reached their…
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You are arguing with your spouse and your kids are miserable. What’s wrong in your normally happy home? Your parents are visiting and they’re beginning to drive you crazy telling everyone what to do. They are rearranging your furniture and…
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My earliest memory of Daddy is watching him plow furrows in our field with an old gray mule named Jack. Jack was not fond of his work and was soon replaced with a little red tractor with huge wheels on…
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I know what it is like to be despised by people who don’t even know me. Talk shows dedicate hours to viciously bashing people like me. I am the subject of ridicule from conservative and liberal hosts alike. Women are…
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Even in the most loving of families, there will always be trouble one point or another; between parent and child, siblings, between your partner. The amount of time and bitterness of the situation always varies as much as how we…
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This is a loaded topic and one that hopefully people can approach with an open mind. There are so many reasons that this situation can occur. I left home when I was 17 1/2 and I never went back but…
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