Being A Step Parent: Extensive Advice for Step Parents and their Families

You've found the perfect place for expert guidance on creating happy, harmonious blended families and mastering your step parenting journey. Our experienced team of family experts shares proven strategies for building strong relationships with your stepchildren, navigating everyday family life, and bringing everyone together as one loving unit. Being A Step Parent is here to help.

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Dealing with Teenage Stepchildren

As seasoned parents will tell you, it can be hard to deal with a teenager, but teenage stepchildren can be especially challenging. No longer children, yet no...

Tips for Being a Good Step Mother

Stepmothers are usually not in an enviable position; they may be expected to shoulder a great deal of the parental responsibilities without getting much of t...

Activities to do with Your Step Child

Developing a good relationship with stepchildren takes a bit of time, but by scheduling fun activities, a step parent can help to create a fun and welcoming...

Forming Bonds with In-Laws as a Second Spouse

Sometimes, when a couple divorces, each partner’s parents feels a sense of loss. When they are fond of their son- or daughter-in-law, news of a break up ca...

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Being a Step Grandparent: A Case Study

Having a step family affects more than just the immediate family and the role of grandparents, especially, can be changed with the arrival of step children....

Communication With Both Sets of Parents: How to Improve?

Very often communication between parties is strained simply because there is no effort made on either side to overcome the divide and forge a better relation...

Interview With a Counsellor: The Benefits of Family Counselling

One in three people in the UK today is likely to be involved in a step family in some way at some point in their life. In a new family, children come as part...

Spending Time Alone as a Couple: A Case Study

When you become a step family, it is very easy to get caught up in the practicalities of everyday life and leave little time for your relationship with your...

When Younger Siblings Are Left Behind: Case Study

In any family of more than one child, there will come a point when the older child leaves and goes to college or university, or moves out of the family home...

Being an Organised Step Family

It sounds so easy doesn’t it? Organise a family chore rota and get everyone involved in helping with all the little jobs that need to be done around the ho...

Maintaining a Relationship With Your Child's School

Becoming a blended family is a big step and a change in your life that requires careful handling and consideration. It is not just you, your partner and all...

We Both Have Jobs and Manage Our Family: A Case Study

It is a fact that in these times of credit crunch and recession we have no choice but to work, and in many families both parents work and manage the house an...

How Can I Create a Bond With My Young Stepdaughter?

The stepfamily transition can be a bit rocky, as you’ve found out, but in most cases, time takes care of most of the initial problems. The first year of an...

Going on Holiday as a Step Family

Once you have got to know each other, and possibly before you all move in together and become an official step family, you may well decide to book a group fa...

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