September 11, 2008

Blended Family

Hey stepparents! Some of you have mentioned that you'd like me to address our delicate family position a bit more. Well, here's something to gnaw on.

This is how one aspect of the blended family affects our own children. It is important also to note how Vivien is improving my new haircut.

Keywords: blended family, parental challenges, parenting, Parenting Tips, step-parenting, stepmom

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Nicola Ries Taggart Thursday, September 11th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

This was so great to hear from someone else. Although the divorce rate is high and you'd think that there would be tons of blended families, we know hardly any and so the issues we deal with aren't talked about much.

My 3.5 year old daughter really misses her 8 year old sister when she goes back to her "other house". What makes it even harder is that they share a room when she's with us. So now my daughter has been saying that she doesn't want to sleep alone when her sister's not around.

Carolyn Thursday, September 11th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

I love the pantomimed hairspray!

Daphne Thursday, September 11th, 2008 at 8:14 pm

Nicola, thanks for that. that's great though that they share a room. It's funny cause before I was in this position I would have thought I would be like, "yeah, kid go to your mom's, scram." but you feel like more of a family being altogether.

yes, Viv is a great hair dresser

Nicola Ries Taggart Sunday, September 14th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

Daphne:
Congrats on your pregnancy! We keep going back and forth about having another one. The fact that sometimes we have one and sometimes we have two has played into the decision. Can I handle it if we go to "sometimes we have two and sometimes we have THREE"?! I'll tell you that we are leaning in the direction these days of giving it another shot, partly because we see Lindsay's reaction when Ella leaves and we think she'd really enjoy having another sibling who is around all the time.

Blended families is a very interesting thing. I remember saying at one point in my life that I would never want to be a step-parent because I thought it would be the hardest role. Well, it's very rewarding, but it does come with some challenges, but definitely not nearly as hard as I had imagined. We've become our own family and the unit changes a bit depending on who is in the house on what days!
Nicola