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Smart Stepfamilies: The Waiting Game

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Saturday, July 26, 2008. If you are in a stepfamily or are in the planning stages of forming a stepfamily, then you are going to do some waiting. Oh yes, there is much waiting that must be done in stepfamilies. If you learn how to wait well, then you will increase your odds of successful stepfamily formation. You will wait for your stepchildren to appreciate you. You will for your children to appreciate their new stepparent. You will wait for issues with your new spouse's former spouse to be worked out.

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Smart Stepfamilies: December 2007

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Wednesday, December 26, 2007. Guilt is a really bad way to start of any new year. And one of the best ways to get yourself into a guilt situation is to make promises that you know you're never going to . New Year's Resolutions are your ticket to the guilt house. Don't do it. Instead, take a more process approach to the new year. Rather than making some kind of grand promise of measurable change, think about adding in a theme to your life. Monday, December 03, 2007. An Interview With Karon Goodman. We dec...

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Smart Stepfamilies: January 2008

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Sunday, January 20, 2008. How do you do time? How you do time may have a connection to how you do stepfamily life. Here is what I mean: Some people have beliefs about time such that enormous amounts of things can be accomplished in small amounts of time. If you can write it in your daytimer or PDA, then it can be done. Write a novel between 8 and 10 PM. Fits in the slot, but there is no chance that such a thing could happen. But that it is. Saturday, January 12, 2008. Stepfathers must resist a certain te...

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Smart Stepfamilies: October 2008

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008. If there is one word that captures many of the dynamics of stepfamilies, it is "loyalty." There are so many differing loyalties which run deep and guide behaivors. Many of these loyalties conflict with each other and end up driving wedsges between family memebrs. These conflicts are really a question. That question goes something like this: "Are we really a family? Here are some steps to preserve all loyalties:. 3 Use language which acknowledges each subgroup in the family in...

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Smart Stepfamilies: February 2008

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Thursday, February 07, 2008. Could be a promising new blog. It has just launched and will chronicle the life of a new stepfather. Go check out Stepdaddy blog. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Family, Faith, and Doctoral Studies. Life Long Christian Blogs the Koran. Nature, Art, and Architecture. Simplicity in the Suburbs. Continuing The Stepparent Journey. Simplicity in the Suburbs. Simplicity in the Suburbs. View my complete profile. Check Out These Stepfamily Sites. Stepfamily Association of America.

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Smart Stepfamilies: How Not To Win In A Stepfamily

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Monday, September 08, 2008. How Not To Win In A Stepfamily. How do you win in a stepfamily? Some people might think that there is no winning in a stepfamily. I am not sure I can tell you how to win, but I can share a few ways of how not to win. 1 Do not win by making someone else in your family lose. 2 Do not win by making personal satisfaction or comfort your measure of success. 3 Do not win by keeping tabs on how everyone else is being unfair. 4 Do not win by giving up on the family. We just celebrated...

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Smart Stepfamilies: June 2010

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Monday, June 21, 2010. Ron L Deal (Amarillo, Texas). Kyron Horman is missing. The 7 year-old boy from Oregon has been missing for over two weeks and authorities are looking everywhere to find him. It must have been the stepmother, right? When a biological mother is accused of harming their own child, doubt is our first reaction (“How can that be? A mom would never do that! Sandra Bullock and Stepfamilies. If you know someone in a remarriage, point them toward resources that will help them beat the odds&#...

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Smart Stepfamilies: May 2009

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009. Normality is overrated. In fact, most people think or hope for something idealized, perfect, or a mythical kind of life and simply call this impossible standard, "normal." Well, the quicker we can jettison this notion of. And move on to reality, the better off we're going to be in our stepfamilies. OK, let's swith metaphors. People in stepfamilies are pioneers. By definition there is nothing normal about pioneering and charting new territory. It is always a creative eff...Life Long...

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Smart Stepfamilies: July 2008

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Saturday, July 26, 2008. If you are in a stepfamily or are in the planning stages of forming a stepfamily, then you are going to do some waiting. Oh yes, there is much waiting that must be done in stepfamilies. If you learn how to wait well, then you will increase your odds of successful stepfamily formation. You will wait for your stepchildren to appreciate you. You will for your children to appreciate their new stepparent. You will wait for issues with your new spouse's former spouse to be worked out.