Links for Tuesday, January 8
Jan 8th, 2008 by Jill
- PBSkids.org’s It’s My Life has a helpful looking collection of articles for kids about stepfamilies, including:
- Then Comes Remarriage
- Stepmoms and Stepdads
- Lines of Communication
- A list of books about stepfamilies (fiction and nonfiction)
- Jeffrey Cottrill: Successful Stepfamilies: How to create a happy, functional stepfamily - “Dr. Marshall, who himself lives happily in a stepfamily, believes that the key to surviving the situation is to be realistic. ‘You have to get rid of any preconceived notions about what a family ought to be,’ he explains. ‘Instead, say, ‘what kind of family are we going to be?’” (more)
- Jeff Wirth: How the birds kept their field: A fable
Have you seen Juno yet? It has a great depiction of a stepmother. I blogged about it the other day.
Yes! I loved it.