Stepparenting

Two Best Friends Make It through a Pregnancy, with All Its Gut-Busting Hilarity and Gross Bits

Maternity isn’t all sunshine and rainbows and natural glows. It’s also elastic waistbands, hot flashes, and throbbing breasts! When Jillian Parsons’s best friend forever, Allison Baerken, finds herself knocked up, both women are thrown into a nine-mo …

The goal of parenting is to train your children to have slightly better manners than a dog. If you’ve achieved that by the end of day (or even if you’ve failed majestically trying), it is important to celebrate the little things. Like bedtime. And screw-top wine. And with Mommyfesto, by award-winning humor blogger Leanne Shirtliffe, you’ll le …

ISOLATION. FRUSTRATION. REJECTION. Why is it so hard to be a stepmother? Inspired by her own experiences as a stepmother, existing research and a realization that many stepmothers out there are struggling, psychologist Elizabeth Church answers this question and more in this "Bible for stepmothers" that has garnered much media attention.

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