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Jennifer Newcomb Marine: “…may happy extended families one day be the norm!”

Posted in Quotes on Apr 9th, 2008

“When it comes to divorce, may happy extended families one day be the norm!” –Jennifer Newcomb Marine, No One’s the Bitch

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Two houses, one email address

Posted in Communication, Tips on Nov 27th, 2007

Last year we set up a single email address for both of our houses. It instantly autoforwards to all of us (Kathy, G, and me) at our individual email accounts. It’s the email address we give to the kids’ schools, summer camp and extracurricular organizations, and this way we all know that everyone gets all [...]

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Po Bronson: “If you are falling in love with someone who has children from a previous marriage, your partner’s ex-spouse is usually a bigger factor in the long-term success than the attitude of the children.”

Posted in Links, Parenting, Quotes, Remarriage on Nov 27th, 2007

“From my own observations, the biggest variable to the success of blending a family is the behavior and agreeability of former-spouses. If you are divorced or divorcing (with children), there is probably nothing more important for you to do than to get on good terms with your ex. If you are falling in love with [...]

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One mom’s perspective: “I am not the bad guy”

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 [...]

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Discipline, part 2

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 [...]

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