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Blending Your StepFamily: The Challenges of Reentry & Dealing with “Disneyland Parenting”

By Danny Avila February 11, 2015Blending Your StepFamily, Parenting, Relationships

Have you noticed your child's behavior change before and/or after staying with the other parent? Children in shared custody will go through a settling in time. One Dad who has full…

Blending Your StepFamily 50: Parent As A Team

By Danny Avila February 4, 2015Blending Your StepFamily, Parenting

Get your game plan ready. “When it’s just the two of us, we have a great relationship. Add the kids and that’s when we have problems”. I have heard this…

Blending Your StepFamily 49: It’s Nice to be Included

By Danny Avila January 28, 2015Blending Your StepFamily, Encouragement, Relationships

From Pam Rohr, author of Blended but not Broken - Hope and Encouragement for Blended Families: You know the remarkable, one of a kind story, about Joseph, Mary and Jesus. The…

Blending Your StepFamily 48: Choosing to Love the Unlovable Stepchild

By Danny Avila January 22, 2015Blending Your StepFamily

Last week we talked about mature love in the couple relationship. This week let’s focus on loving a stepchild that is difficult. As we said last week, mature love is…

Blending Your StepFamily: Welcome to the Family!

By Danny Avila January 14, 2015Blending Your StepFamily, Relationships

“I feel so happy that they’ve included me into their already established family.” This quote came from a dad I recently met who had married a widow with two kids. …

Blending Your StepFamily 47: Mature Love in the Couple Relationship

By Danny Avila January 7, 2015Blending Your StepFamily, Relationships

It’s the beginning of a New Year and with it may come new years resolutions. It’s important to continue to look at the different areas of our lives and pick…

Blending Your StepFamily : Unfairness in Parenting

By Danny Avila December 17, 2014Blending Your StepFamily, Parenting

What should you do when you and your spouse have different parenting styles, resulting in different rules and unfair treatment of your children? What happens when your spouse has an…

Blending Your StepFamily: Parenting Styles

By Danny Avila December 11, 2014Blending Your StepFamily, Encouragement, Equip, Parenting, Relationships

One study shows that an important aspect to being a very happy couple in stepfamilies is the ability to come together around matters of parenting. These happy couples have discussed,…

Blending Your StepFamily: Parenting Matters Really Do Matter!

By Danny Avila December 3, 2014Blending Your StepFamily, Parenting

Parenting matters is too often the very issue that tears couples apart. Often times, when two newlyweds are alone, life is good. But add one or both sets of kids…

Blending Your StepFamily: StepFamilies Who Meet Together Stay Together

By Danny Avila November 26, 2014Blending Your StepFamily

The wedding day has come and gone, the honeymoon (if you were blessed enough to enjoy one) is over… So now what? You’ve brought your two families together and you’re…