Blending Your StepFamily 11: Welcome to the Family
“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 10: Unfairness in 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 9: Parenting Styles
There are five basic parenting styles. The key to effective stepfamily blending is first recognizing what your current styles are; second changing your own to a more healthy style; and…
Blending Your StepFamily 8: Parenting Matters
Parenting Matters really do matter! Often times, when two newlyweds are alone, life is good. But add one or both sets of kids to the mix, and their happy marriage…
Blending Your StepFamily 7: Family Meetings
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…
Blending Your StepFamily 6: Healthy Communication, Part 2
Picking up where we left off last week, healthy communication is a part of a strong foundation for a family. If the foundation decays, the family inevitably falls apart -…
Blending Your StepFamily 5: Healthy Communication, Part 1
It's been said that the key to any happy marriage is healthy communication. In the cases of blended families, it's not only the key to happiness, but paramount to the…
Blending Your StepFamily 4: Wounds and Forgiveness
Holding onto unforgiveness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to get sick. When we retaliate to get even, though, we take God out of the healing equation.…
Blending Your StepFamily 3: Five Tips for Success in Your Remarriage with Children
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…
Blending Your StepFamily 2: The Stages of Blending
Blending your stepfamily can feel like you are literally in a blender: being blended, chopped and pureed. However, the goal is feeling a sense of unity, harmony and familial cooperation…