Coming Back From the Devastation of Divorce and Quick Summary of Takeaways
Hello and welcome All, This week's post may be the last for a while. I also may redefine this blog and continue it later, in another direction. Parenting is difficult. That can be said about biological children but even more so about step children. "You're not my real mom!" it a phrase that was very often used among my friend group as a joke. Then I got an actual step mom and it wasn't a joke anymore. It was a daily thing that ran through my head. She wasn't my mom, so why was she going around telling me what to do and punishing me when I didn't do what she wanted. Who gave her power over me at the words "I do"? This was insanity. Well, there are some more effective ways to go about what she had to do and I am going to tell you about them and some other patterns that developed in my home over time as we all lived together and actually became a family. The first thing I would say is that the heavy punishment should be carried out by the birth p...