Blending Your StepFamily 3: Five Tips for Success in Your Remarriage with Children

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In this week’s podcast, Pam offers five tips she has discovered lead to a successful blended family. All of these take time and conscious effort, but have huge payoffs in creating a harmonious, loving family in the end. Pam’s tips are:

1) Maintain an atmosphere of family inclusiveness. Make it clear that we are one family and we are ALL important. This must begin with BOTH parents.

2) Run from resentment! Resentment will kill your relationships, so work diligently to remove it from your household.

3) Forgiveness is key. This includes forgiving your ex-spouse and perhaps even yourself.

4) Birth parents should do most of the disciplining until the children and step parent have developed a solid, trusting and loving relationship.

5) Step parents should come into the family with the same authority as a teacher or a coach – definitely respected, but not trying to take over the role of “parent” too quickly.

For more tips on blending your step family, check out Pam’s website at www.NouveauLifeCoaching.com