Ever Wonder How Your Stepkids Feel About Valentine’s Day? Valentine’s Day is one of those holidays that can be tricky to navigate for a lot of people. As children, we grow up loving Valentine’s Day. A day where your parents buy you chocolates and cinnamon hearts? Yes, please! Then you attend school where every student in the class gives…
“I’m not listening to you, you’re not my real mom”… sound familiar? It does for me, swap out ‘mom’ for ‘dad’ and I’ve said that line a million times. My stepfather came into my life at the ripe age of 14, which could quite possibly be one of the most difficult ages for any parent to deal with. My mom…
How to be a Good Stepmom…Despite Being Surrounded by Chaos Being a stepmother is generally painted as the stuff fairy tales are made of – either you get your happily ever after, or are placed in the evil stepmother category. But real life is not a fairy tale, and what you get depends a lot on what you put…
A stressed-out stepmom, misunderstood by her husband and mistreated by her step-kids, reaches out for support in an online forum. She describes her situation in detail – the step-kids, their ages, how often they come over. She describes how the kids complain about everything – the food, their activities, how bored they are. How their dad drops everything so that…
When I was a little girl I dreamt of all the things girls dream of. What your husband would look like, what kind of white picket fence around your home, how many kids the two of you would have. Cue in screeching sound, and I think we will stop right there. Let’s just rip the band-aid off on this…
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…
Today’s the day, ladies- it’s officially socially acceptable to be the archetypical “wicked stepmom” that we have all heard of many times before! That’s right, October 31 marks All Hallows’ Eve and along with all the ghosts and goblins wandering into events and Halloween festivities, we will also be seeing a number of Disney characters. Perhaps the most ominous of…
Image| BLUEBIRDKISSES Family is everything, as most people would claim, a compartment where you can best express your true nature without any fear of respite or rejection. One’s family can be said to be one of the best gifts of nature to man. Everything we do; activities carried out, all have the family factor embedded in it. This is…