{"id":7312,"date":"2017-12-07T14:49:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/blended-family-and-step-parenting-tips\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:20:25","slug":"blended-family-and-step-parenting-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/blended-family-and-step-parenting-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Blended Family and Step-Parenting Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"intro\" class=\"clearfix\">Since many remarriages include children from previous relationships, blended families or stepfamilies are more common than ever. When families &#8220;blend&#8221;, though, things rarely progress smoothly. Some children may resist changes, while you as a parent can become frustrated when your new family doesn&#8217;t function in the same way as your previous one. While blending families requires adjustment for everyone involved, these guidelines can help your new family work through the growing pains. No matter how strained or difficult things seem at first, with open communication, mutual respect, and plenty of love and patience, you can develop a close bond with your new stepchildren and form an affectionate and successful blended family.<\/section>\n<section id=\"content\">\n<h2>What is a blended family?<\/h2>\n<p>A blended family or stepfamily forms when you and your partner make a life together with the children from one or both of your previous relationships. The process of forming a new, blended family can be both a rewarding and challenging experience. While you as parents are likely to approach remarriage and a new family with great joy and expectation, your kids or your new spouse\u2019s kids may not be nearly as excited. They\u2019ll likely feel uncertain about the upcoming changes and how they will affect relationships with their natural parents. They\u2019ll also be worried about living with new stepsiblings, whom they may not know well, or worse, ones they may not even like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpguide.org\/articles\/parenting-family\/step-parenting-blended-families.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read more from HelpGuide.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"info box\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since many remarriages include children from previous relationships, blended families or stepfamilies are more common than ever. When families &#8220;blend&#8221;, though, things rarely progress smoothly. Some children may resist changes, while you as a parent can become frustrated when your new family doesn&#8217;t function in the same way as your previous one. While blending families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,137,138,139,140],"tags":[531,250,317,532,1819,534,1820,1821,286],"age":[],"content-type":[],"persona":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17302,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312\/revisions\/17302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7312"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=7312"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=7312"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=7312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}