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Children & Stepparenting |
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How do I develop a relationship with my two stepchildren who were adults when we married? |
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My daughter's father won't call her or pick her up for his weekend visit. When she asks why she can't see her dad, what is the best thing to say? |
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How do you blend children with personalities that are so different? It seems as if I am favoring my child and overly punishing my stepchild. |
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| In your seminar you mention that it is important to allow the children to have pictures of their past in their home or rooms. Should the pictures be with the children and their mom or with me included? |
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| My son has called his stepfather "Dad" in front of his biological father...His father seems very hurt...What should my son call his stepdad? |
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| We have been married 7 years, and my relationship with my stepdaughter is not any better. My husband always jumps in between us and defends her. |
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| Who should get the bigger room? The child who lives here most of the time, or the oldest child? |
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| I struggle with loving his children. When I married him I thought it would come easy and natural but I have found that in my unmarried 30 years Ive become pretty selfish. I do all the duties of a mom but have none of the benifits. |
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| How do you bond with adult stepchildren who struggle to accept your marriage to their parent? Do adult stepchildren have the same emotional struggles as young children? |
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| I am feeling like the horrible, evil step-mother. I flat do not like one of my stepsons and I don't want to like him. |
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My stepson's mother tends to buy for him excessively...this puts us in a bind, because we now have to explain to my son why he can't. |
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| My husband...never acknowledges my daughter. If she says something to him to show him something, he only replies “uh, huh” and goes on his way. Very rarely will he say more than three or four words to answer her. |
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| My qustions is ... My son has a program at school his first one. My husband does not want me to tell his father of the program as he was asked to help pay for the schooling and he choose not to. |
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| My stepkids mom e-mails me and tells me to tell the kids that she loves them and says hi... What's your opinion? Should I relay the messages to the kids? |
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| ...All they will eat is POP TARTS!! A child cannot live off of pop tarts. Then, they go to their mom and say I don't make them food, and basically, now I don't FEEL like it, because they don't like anything I make, and they feel I do not cook well, which is really insulting me... |
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| Should I cut my life in half and have time with my family and time with my son. I feel he has had enough time to adjust; his mother and I have been divorced for 13 years so I don’t see the problem (besides him being selfish and spoiled). |
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| HOW did we raise these children to be so selfish? Neither of them even call their father. I have become the evil stepmother and... I was the one that was up at nights with wash clothes on the fevered heads and giving Pepto-Bismol... |
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| ...I am very resentful and don't feel like these people are my family, nor do I want my daughter believing they are. I feel guilty and selfish because I have no desire to know them. I just want a "normal" relationship with my father (whatever that is)... |
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| Now the problem is that we are finding out the kids are going back and telling their mom lies also about us. We have no idea what to do. Do we confront the kids, or ignore it? |
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| Adults and children alike take very seriously the names (or labels) they use to refer to one another. So just what should parents recommend to children? What emotional significance is indicated by a particular name? |
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| What happens when a biological parent loses their nerve to parent their child? It's not pretty. |
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What can you do to help children grieve their deceased parent? |
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| We’ve being living together for 10 months....will it be okay if my children call him dad? |
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