- Woo Hoo!
- any other moms full time raising thier step kids?
- Terminating Parental Rights?
- are your families accepting of your blended family?
- So tell us about your blended family!
- She's making them call the new guy "dad"!
- What do you do to be the best parent you can be in your blended family?
- when and how to tell him
- Do you feel safe?
- Will you ever tell them the truth about the marriage?
- Do you socialize with the EX at family functions?
- if you're in legal negotiations...
- How about some happy stories?
- I'm so sick of being broke!
- Help: dinner with DH's former PIL and ex-wife?????
- How to handle this? Will we ever see dsd again? LONG
- Positve representations of blended families
- Ideas on breaking the ice...
- Contact
- Happy Mothers Day!
- EX wife issues - warning vent!
- racially blended blended families?
- Should Step Parents Discipline?
- Discipline with X
- Keep last name?
- Bio moms with no stepkids???
- It's happening already......
- Please help with allowance issues
- Disappointed in Myself
- Another DH vent and help needed
- I really can't stand my ex
- Paying for college
- watching them walk out the door is sooo hard....
- How to talk to SO about this
- where on earth was this board all this time
- Any other SAH-stepmamas here?
- Money
- spinoff: discipline if you were a stepparent first, now a bio parent, too
- marriage ceremonies and creating new families
- Best Friend/SIL (without kids) is about to become a step-mom to 3 young adults.
- Parents! Please help with my Master's thesis...
- Thank You
- Abbreviations
- RANT: Blending 2 families - 2 sets of parents and kids!
- anybody with older sc and a young dc?
- I'm tired of being the babysitter!!
- "Nobody wants to be a stepmom"
- dealing with end of visit?
- Dss issues. Help, mamas!
- Stepson is here for a month:)
- 11yo dss bullies the cats Is it normal behavior?
- oops
- Letting your SO be
- The Name Game
- Am I crazy for thinking that this is wrong...
- misbehaving during visitation?
- bb gun wars IN the house
- Anyone else have great step-kids?
- 'Accepting' money from ex-h
- Terminating Parental Rights in Indiana?
- Mistreated
- step-kids and personal boundries
- bonding with IL's the 2nd time around?
- dh resentful about dsd's childcare
- Rooms?
- VENT! Irresponsible parents!
- UGH UGH UGH! Need to vent again!
- Very irritated/perturbed at my mom's behavior
- wedding gift for new family with 6 yo and 9 yo?
- need help with dsd...anger issues/biomom issues/etc.
- Gifts from my dh family to my daughter (my dh stepdaughter)
- Ideas for non-custodial mama to keep dd close
- Considering baby...married 2 years...have 2 stepdaughters, 7 and 9
- Getting custody-sort of
- Anyone else a little bugged by the use of "bio-mom" in this forum?
- Revenge of the Half-Blood Prince
- Coming out of "lurkdom"
- I'm just so angry right now!
- bio dad trying in-vitro
- She agreed to the schedule!!!
- Getting close!
- Book Request ~ Engaged to a man with 3 young adult children?
- 17 yr old SD is preggo!
- Why does she need dss's social security card?
- any one else have no contact with bio dads?
- Expectations? (mini vent, too)
- Staying neutral in the midst of blended family BS!
- I'm scared of having step children VENT
- Blended family blues
- I hate to say this.....
- I have a blended family question...
- My ex is driving me crazy!
- LONG Vent about dss
- Vent: x in jail
- Vent; my ex (sorry, long...)
- Raising children in same house with different religion??
- Help me understand this relationship
- I feel so special!
- I'm not sure this belongs here, but I am struggling
- Need to talk to ex in-laws, what to say (long)
- Is this fair?
- How can I get them to eat better?
- Looking for other's opinions
- Sharing my story
- Hehehehe Ear nipples (cross post)
- 16 y/o SD nagging disabled 12 y/o SS
- He gets so angry when we need to talk about dss
- Issues with DSS's mother
- Schedule with biomom (small update)
- Moving with fiance, and my kids' dad says adios
- Rookie Needs Help
- Fiance's 10 yr old DD just moved in - difficult
- Need wedding gift ideas for a new step family
- Finances...slight vent
- MSN does anyone have it?
- my poor kids.
- Mothering Homepage Story-The Velveteen Stepmother
- My ex might as well back off...need advice
- Child that won't do anything for herself?
- Treading lightly, with a question...
- being clingy now that biomom has less time for him
- i need to tell my story
- Help with Overweight Step Son
- Custody agreement details
- DSS was 21 years today and DD 21 months!
- Help me help mom deal with her insecurities
- stepparents and parent-teacher conferences
- stepchildren think vegetable is a bad word
- What to do when dss doesn't want to come with us?
- Step-parents adopting..... questions
- Going to court repeatedly
- stepmom's mom not on her side
- What is a stepparent's role?
- Raising kids together or seprately?
- Discipline vent
- Need advice re: visitation
- Nudity and the stepchild(ren)
- Psych. eval - need advice
- Psych. eval - stepson thinks discipline is bad
- Honest, brutal advice needed (be polite but firm)
- vent - child support (long)
- DH needs help asserting himself w/my 12yo son
- Why am I upset about this!? (rant)
- "I want my Mommy"
- New to the board
- FI Ex is at it againe
- babies and Stepkids
- Going to a mediator?
- Why do you continue to punish your Dad?
- written permission to move out of state?
- M, B, SIL problems
- Psych. eval - problems with stepson
- Help! Am I being too hard on 6yo dss?
- Non-custodial parents and childcare
- Pysch-eval, I babbled :(
- School Drama & Custody
- Help..fiance being denied paternity test!
- Court Question...being sued for custody/visitation
- Help! DS doesn't want anything to do with DH
- This really hurt: tell me, am I being unreasonable?? (long)
- Any success stories?
- It looks like we won't be seeing dss this Christmas....Again
- reconsidering garnishing wages
- "You're Not My Mom" - what's your answer?
- inappropriate words used at dad's
- Am I living in a fantasy world?
- NCP bedrooms for skids?
- Defiant Stepson
- Do I need to be posting HERE???
- My situation...Please Help!
- Raising Resilient Children?
- how do you do holidays?
- Is This Normal?
- How Do You Know What's Right? To Stay Or Go?
- Dh sister 'forgot' my daughter (dh sd) on holiday cards, gifts..
- child of an alcoholic--need advice
- I miss my Step kids
- Ex's New Girlfriend
- You won't believe this!!!!!!
- If you have important family news, whom should you share it with first?
- Vent- Deadbeat dad and his clueless girlfriend
- sad for DSS
- wwyd? dad forcing 10 yr old on rollercoaster
- DSS is leaving :(
- New, kind of
- How do you get to a point where BM/Ex doesn't make you want to commit murder....
- I sent biomom a Xmas gift
- Grandparents & Giftgiving
- New here w/questions
- New baby in step/blended family?
- Holiday Rant....Advice needed.
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- Seperated Siblings
- the 1st Mrs. B.
- Guess it is time to introduce myself....
- Is there any way to get him to stop feeding them crap?
- Vegetable-arian? at 7? - Problems Increasing....
- children taking advantage of conflict
- It isn't like we are planning #20 or anything!!! :o(
- did you go to court over relocation out of state?
- Stepmom's wanting TPR???
- Dealing with the blended family?
- new step parent + obstinant angry 13 year old boy, help
- help me breath, an ex vent
- child support ?
- segregation
- Maybe two more on the way. Help!!
- I soon will be joining you...
- Support hearing contempt and VENTING
- introduction
- My dss's mom is fighting with ex's
- What can a father do?...
- Teaching morals and life lesssons without insulting the biological parent?
- Parental Alienation Syndrome?
- Abcess baby bottom
- I am SO SO HAPPY!!
- I hate having the "money talk"....
- Former MIL's
- How can I develop a better relationship with my dsd?
- How to you keep connection when child lives with father?
- How often does the absent parent come up in convo/thoughts?
- New baby in the noncustodial mom's house
- My stepdaughter says she hates me...
- Step Mom Needs Help New here
- What to do about DSS.
- Step-son's decision
- skid in Navy
- live in bf kids have deceased mom, what to do??
- Priorities in a blended family/marriage
- Arrgh! Headlice
- Please help my sons father be a daddy
- "Disneyland Dad" where does my dh fit in?
- having issues with DH
- Intro....wanting to join this forum
- 19 year old step-son threw party while we vacationed.
- primetime live
- Ex told ds he didn't want him to visit any more
- DH's ex trying to distance him from his son
- Blending Parenting Styles (long)
- VENT- my husband has his priorities all out of wack
- What would you have done???
- the boys say they don't want to go.....
- Needing Support For Weird Situation
- biomoms, when did you introduce SO and how?
- i need advice
- new to this forum
- Help, I'm almost a stepmom
- I am jealous of my step-daughter. Help!!
- Being flexible with non custodial parent. (ex)
- stepmom treats my daughter unfairly