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Step-Mothers Get No Respect: Reflections on the Major Suck that is Step-Parenting
No one ever gives step-parents any props. For the most part, being a step-parent is either stigmatized or shrouded in mystery, never idolized. I experienced both the stigma and the misunderstandings. Even now, a year after I’ve relinquished the role, it still sucks that I got no respect for my tenure as someone’s step-mother.
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Labors Lost: Laments on the Thankless Nature of Raising Someone Else’s Child
Reflecting on the thankless nature of raising someone else's child. Being a step-parent isn't easy. Who knew?
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Drinking the Haterade
I took a swig of the haterade while I was reading some posts on my facebook page this morning (see, this is why I shouldn’t even get on facebook). I had a fb friend post a link to a blog about mothering. Then I read, on that blog, her manifesto on parenting, and though I agree with her notions in general, she lost me at the part about gentle discipline. I can only assume, due to her overall tone, that she must be the parent of small children and is NOT in a blended family.
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Notes from the Meeting of the RSA
Step through the past, present, and future notes from the meeting of reluctant stepparents anonymous.
