Advice from an Adult Stepkid Whether you are joining a family with young stepchildren or adult stepchildren, there will be challenges. Both situations are extremely unique, on one hand, if your stepchild is young they may be more open to accepting you since they may not fully understand and have the same emotions as an older stepchild. On the…
New Year’s Resolutions I Wish My Stepmom Had At the end of one year and into the beginning of the next, so many of us make New Year’s resolutions. These goals are normally self-improvement based, like eating healthy, exercising and getting organized. We have a proposal, how about this year we make our resolutions just a little bit more meaningful in…
Happy Holidays, Happy Socks, Happy Feet Christmas can become an extremely stressful time of the year but for kids, Christmas still has MAGIC! Christmas for our little ones is full of surprises, fun, and excitement. So this year at Christmas why not take some time and make sure your kids and stepkids have the happiest Christmas they can! It…
How to Handle House Hopping at Christmas Everyone knows that Christmas is on December 25th right? Well in my family Christmas is on the 15th, the 21st, the 24th, and the 25th. Sometimes jumping isn’t always fun, especially when your kids have to jump from house to house to celebrate Christmas. It took a lot of time, but I…
I was recently co-chairing an event to help raise money for U for Change. An organization that has helped over 2500 youth (some of who have been living on the streets of Toronto), where they learn skills in the arts to go onto to working or post secondary skills. This program also gives the youth the chance to believe in…
It’s 2018, and as a society we have come a long way in evolving away from the restrictions of gender roles. From instilling into our children that pink is a “girl color” and dissuading little boys from playing with Barbie dolls, to stereotyping dads as breadwinners and moms as housewives, we continue to move step by step toward home lives…
The Day it All Made Sense to Me My days are relatively simple. I wake up, give my wife a kiss, and get ready for work. I shower, get my suit ready, and prep to go on my morning commute. Each day, I go downstairs to get my breakfast, and each day, my stepchildren give me a look of indifference.…
Planning for Father’s day can be stressful. Where are the kids? When are the kids coming? Who is helping them plan for Father’s Day if you don’t have them? In our case who gives their hand-made cards first! How much time spent on each child’s gift. I like to think of Taylor Swift at this moment “Shake it off shake…