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Advice For Step-Parents
Today's reality of blended families brings up issues of step-parenting and discipline. Children of divorced families are often dealing with grief, confusion, and expectations. When their parents remarry, they have another, new authority figure in the picture. Experts suggest that stepparents start out in a supportive role and then, as they gain their step-kids trust and respect, move into more of a disciplinarian role. Since younger kids see most adults as disciplinarians, they often accept stepparents into that role more quickly than teens do. Step-parenting can be made easier by giving and receiving support from their spouses - parents should work as a united front. By engaging in activities together, stepparents can create a bond with their step-kids which with strengthen the entire family. Read some do's and dont's for stepparenting from
DelawareOnline.com.
posted by ByParents-forParents at 10:28 PM
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