A mom and a stepmom share stories, ideas, friendship and family
Posted in Stories on Nov 23rd, 2007
The day before Thanksgiving, Kathy and Jack and I went to see Enchanted together. Susan Sarandon plays a very evil stepmother, and when she emerged from the sewer shooting green lightning out of her fingertips and wagging her tongue, Jack reached over Kathy, patted me on the knee and said, “Don’t worry Jill. That’s not [...]
Kathy sent me flowers this week for my birthday.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I’m thankful for Kathy, and for our relationship which makes my life richer and fuller and warmer.
I’m thankful G, who I love dearly and deeply.
I’m thankful for the kids, who make me laugh and who make me feel good just being around.
I’m thankful for the [...]
Posted in Perspectives on Nov 21st, 2007
From Step-Family Talk:
“When I went to pick them up from their dad’s house last night they were all moppy and depressed to have to be going home with lame old mom. I can’t even begin to describe how that makes you feel. Honestly unless you’ve been in this situation it is just not a feeling [...]
Posted in Quotes on Nov 21st, 2007
“Life moves and our job is to flow with it. Our job is to love, love, love and flow.” — Lori-Lyn, The Dream Life
Posted in Books, Discipline, Parenting on Nov 20th, 2007
Parent Effectiveness Training by Thomas Gordon
(This post builds on Kathy’s original Discipline post from last weekend.)
I read stacks of books about stepfamily dynamics when my relationship with G looked like it was going to be serious, and pretty much every book I read said to take things slowly and to follow the biological parents’ lead [...]
Posted in Quotes on Nov 20th, 2007
“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict — alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.” — Dorothy Thompson
Posted in Books on Nov 20th, 2007
Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser, Literary Mama: Not the Brady Bunch: A Review of My Father Married Your Mother: Writers Talk about Stepparents, Stepchildren and Everyone in Between
Posted in Discipline, Parenting, Perspectives, Tips on Nov 18th, 2007
By Katherine Shirek Doughtie
I think one of the trickiest paths to navigate between mom and step-mom is this issue of how to “discipline” the children. Jill and G and I are extraordinarily lucky in this regard because we all have very similar notions of what and how much “discipline” should be doled out.
Basically, the [...]
Posted in Quotes on Nov 18th, 2007
“Change is not death. Fear of change is death.” — Hugh Macleod
Posted in Links, Perspectives on Nov 17th, 2007
My favorite find of the weekend: DivorcingDaze. Two women, both named Laurie, live in the same building in New York. One of the Lauries is a divorced mom, and her kids’ dad — who she co-parents with — also lives in the same building. The other Laurie is a gay woman who it sounds like [...]
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