When you are an in-tact nuclear family, aligning parental values and sharing with your children what’s important to you seems fairly simple. If you live and act based on your principles, your children will take note. Once a family is torn apart by divorce and stepparents are added, aligning values becomes much more challenging.
In a [...]
Stepparenting
Aligning Values in a Stepfamily
Economics Even Teenagers Understand
How global trends shape price of slice.
I was picking up a pizza Tuesday night when I saw this article framed on the counter of our favorite pie place. It’s the perfect piece of mind candy to help your teenager understand your household’s diminished disposable income.
Unless of course your kids have a trust fund, an [...]
Attitude Query Results: Who Pays for Child’s Birth Control
Should Parents Pay for College-Age Daughter’s Birth Control?
60% of you said No Way, while 40% thought it Better to Be Safe than Sorry. An interesting debate between Doug and Shiela as well as several emails to me from Shout readers who opted not to comment publicly, (what’s up with that, by the way?) pointed to [...]
The Other Mother
When I was 23 and met my husband, he had an eight-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son and I had a ready-made family. The only problem…the children already had a mother.
Life as a step mom is tough, really tough, and it should be.
If I had known at 23 what I now know, I would have [...]
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